Thinkistan Review

Basing someone's worth on their familiarity with a hip vernacular or rejecting someone based on their inability to communicate using "cool" foreign reference is a scary prospect but not an uncommon one. Workplace biases have existed since forever and have forced many into working beneath their potential. Thikistan addresses these biases and also hits hard on so much that's wrong with currently prevailing toxic work culture.

The show opens with Hema (Shravan Reddy) composing a short ballad about quitting his job in the automobile industry to pursue his passion as a writer in a famous marketing agency. Parallelly, Amit (Naveen Kasturia) a Hindi writer from a small town with no resources to sustain himself has his sleep interrupted by cops while laying on a public bench. Both of them start their job as interns, but Hema soon garners astronomical rise in his career, while Amit is stuck at a lower position despite his innate talent and dedicated work.

Storylines are engrossing and follow the lives of the protagonist engagingly, always leaving the viewer wondering, what's about to happen next? Performances are strong, convincing and Navin Kasturia brings his A-game to portray a complex character who has been prejudiced against and pushed around.

The show is a highly recommended powerful watch with a thought-provoking subtext.