Movie Review : Anek (2022)

Posted on July 15, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Drama
Year: 2022
Running time: 2 hours 27 minutes
Director: Anubhav Sinha
Cast: Ayushman Khurana, Andrea Kevichusa, Kumud Mishra, Manoj Pahwa
Kid rating: PG-13

I was looking forward to watching Anek but when it released its time in the theater was so short that I had to wait for its release on Amazon Prime. Given its star cast and the fact that Ayushmann Khurrana chooses interesting projects I had high hopes for Anek, but it left me a little disappointed.

Anek is about India’s north-eastern states. The story revolves around separatists who don’t believe their voices are being heard by the politicians of Delhi. Ayushmann Khurrana plays an undercover government agent, Aman, who is sent to the north eastern states to ferret out information about faction groups. As cafe-owner Joshua, he gets to know the locals and starts seeing their point of view.

Aido (Andrea), is a friend of Joshua’s. She is a boxer and wants to compete for India so that when she’s on the world stage people will listen to her voice about the injustice meted out to her people. Her father meanwhile, as the head of one of the militant groups feels that there is no hope in talks with the Indian government and that violence is necessary. In the mix also are the politicians – the wily minister (Kumud Mishra) and his right hand man Abrar Bhatt (Pahwa) who want to sign a peace accord with one of the larger militant groups, the Tiger Sangha.

The many layers to the story become clear to us little by little. Given that the topic is complex, and the film a little dense, the viewer is left to his own means to piece together the story. Having a voice-over, or even a character narrating the story (maybe as a flashback), would have really helped make the film and the film’s core issue more approachable and understandable for the average movie-goer.

The film is told from the point of view of the north easterners, estranged from the Indian mainland and facing racism even as Indian citizens. The politicians are shown as wanting a peace accord accord but not really caring about long-term resolution. In the middle is Joshua who comes into this initially at the behest of his politician masters, but then makes up his own mind.

The films pace is sporadic. There are bursts of quick action interspersed with lulls so the film never really takes off. Director Anubhav Sinha picks important topics about the state of the country, and has a penchant for dishing out home-truths. He also directed the fabulous Article 15 but while that was superbly intense Anek falters.

Ayushmann Khurrana looks very different from his usual self and his acting is not as good – there was this particular mode he seemed to go into at times, where I could not tell if his character was angry or frustrated or just plain at his wit’s end. Northeastern actress Andrea Kevichusko is quite good and the supporting cast also does well. While the film is earnest and tries to tell some truths it can’t get across its message in an interesting fashion. Anek suffers from clunky writing and lackluster storytelling.

Kidwise: Violence, and talk of violence.

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Movie Review : Jug Jugg Jeeyo (2022)

Posted on July 8, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Drama
Year: 2022
Running time: 2 hours
Director: Raj Mehta
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Varun Dhawan, Neetu Kapoor
Kid rating: PG-13

Jug jugg Jeeyo is about a dysfunctional family in which the son, Kukkoo (Varun Dhawan) and the daughter-in-law Naina (Kiara Advani) live in Toronto, Canada, far from their families in Punjab. Kukkoo, although initially in love with his childhood sweetheart has grown apart from her. Ditto for her. They both want a divorce but decide to keep mum until Kukkoo’s sister’s wedding, which is happening soon, is over. When they reach India however they discover that theirs is not the only marriage breaking up.

The film is situated in Patiala, Punjab in a traditional family setup where the father (Anil Kapoor) is a patriarch and the head of the family, and the mother (Neetu Kapoor) is the loving, considerate care-taker of the family, feeding everyone parathas (remember this is Punjab, per Bollywood standards). I also say typically Punjabi because this is full of sound effects and music and little comedic asides. Every scene has dhol or music or some reference to party-sharty/khana-shana/daaru-shaaru/Punjabi munde so it’s very loud – it is a Karan Johar production through and through.

The film tries to show that people can grow apart at any point in their lives for many different reasons. It also emphasizes that marriage takes effort from both partners, but tries to do it without allocating any blame (even where it’s due!). While Kukoo feels threatened by his wife’s professional success, his father wants to leave his wife for another woman. Kukkoo is shown as a little repentant and realizing his mistakes, while Papaji who could take some learning, is essentially unchanged. It’s all very macho Punjabi – with a hefty dose of the boys-will-be-boys philosophy.

While the broad theme of Jug Jugg Jeeyo is obvious the film does not have a strong screenplay, so there are lots of little incidents juxtaposed around each other without coherence. Too much noise and too little substance (director Raj Meta’s last venture was Good Newzz) ! It feels very much like a script-less film, almost as though they started with one idea and just kept building little scenes as the fancy took them.

Even so the film is not un-entertaining. All the actors actually do well. Anil Kapoor is his usual energetic self, although a tad one-tone, as the patriarch who misses the whiff of romance. Varun Dhawan as Kukoo is his robustly Punjabi son, hankering for the homeland. Neetu Kapoor is quite lovely as the domestic mater with a mind of her own and Kiara Advani, as beautiful daughter-in-law Naina is quite believable. My favorite scene of the film had the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law having a wonderful heart-to-heart over wine.

While Jug Jugg Jeeyo is not going to win any awards for authenticity, it is is a decent Friday night entertainer. Don’t go looking for subtlety and deep meaning in this loud melodrama, and you will be well pleased.

Kidwise: Couple of borderline salacious scenes featuring a bachelor party and women, although nothing explicit is ever shown on screen.

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Movie Review : Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui (2021)

Posted on July 1, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Genre: Drama
Year: 2021
Running time: 2 hours
Director: Abhishek Kapoor
Cast: Ayushmann Khurana, Vaani Kapoor, Kanwaljeet Singh, Anjan Srivastava
Kid rating: PG-13

Manvinder “Manu” Munjal (Khurana) is a gym owner and body-builder and Maanvi Brar (Kapoor) is a lovely young Zumba teacher who teaches in Manu’s gym. The two fall in love, but when Maanvi reveals a big personal secret Manu feels cheated and breaks off the relationship. 

Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui is about a relationship between a heterosexual man and a trans woman and deals with the acceptance of transfolk as normal members of society. The film presents its topic with humor, using macho Manu, his Punjabi friends and his conservative family as mouthpieces to voice the common misperceptions and prejudices with regards to transfolk. Not only are Manu’s family aghast at the idea, Maanvi’s mother herself had distanced herself from Maanvi because of her gender reassignment. 

Ayushmann delivers a strong performance, but we didn’t expect any less. Vaani Kapoor is really good here too, by turns tremulous and stoic, as Maanvi remembers past indignities and insults hurled at her by family, friends and society in general. It was nice to see Kanwaljeet Singh as Maanvi’s supportive dad. Manu’s family, while a little stereo-typed, does probably represent typical middle-class outlook.

Chandigarh Kare Ashiqui deals with a serious topic, but in a light, humorous vein – and succeeds because it does get us to feel for Maanvi’s hard choices and her struggle to find acceptance and happiness. The film is well-paced, has peppy music and keeps one engrossed. Director Abhishek Kapoor (Kai Po Che, Rock On) takes a progressive note with this film and delivers a breezy entertainer.

Kidwise: Kids probably aren’t the right audience for this, unless well-educated about the issue. The film features discussions about sexual orientation and graphics of the actual procedure.

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Series Review : Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein (2022)

Posted on June 24, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre : Drama
Year : 2022
Seasons: 1 Episodes: 8
Director : Sidharth Sengupta
Cast : Tahir Raj Bhasin, Shweta Tripathi, Aanchal Singh, Saurabh Shukla
Kid rating : PG-17

Honestly, I hadn’t expected much from Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein, but this turned out to be surprisingly good! A little gory and violent and unexpectedly intense, but in a good way.

Fresh graduate Vikrant Singh Chauhan (Bhasin) has plans for the future. These involve girlfriend Shikha (Shweta Tripathi) and moving out from the small town of Onkara where his parents live. Vikrant’s father  (Brijendra Kala) works for Akhiraj Awasthi (Saurabh Shukla) the local powerful politician of Onkara, and tries to persuade Vikrant to also come work there, especially when Akhiraj offers Vikrant a well-paying job. Akhiraj’s daughter Purva (Singh) has a crush on Vikrant and is determined to marry him. Vikrant is adamant on escaping the violent fiefdom though, but when subtle pressure is applied by Akhiraj and his goons (to ensure Purwa’s happiness), Vikrant decides to play it smart, and bide his time. 

Season 1 of Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein has bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Vikrant slowly come to terms with Akhiraj Singh’s violent ways and the real threat he poses to Vikrant’s family and girlfriend. His rosy dreams crushed, Vikrant needs to find a way out of this thorny predicament. His parents are shown as undoubting supporters of Akhiraj, attributing all their happiness to him, and consider Vikrant a fool for daring to refuse Akhiraj’s generous offer, especially when that offer includes becoming Purva’s husband and future heir to all of Akhiraj’s wealth and power.

The series reminds me of the Urmila Matondkar starrer Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya. Purva here mirrors Urmila’s character in that movie – the canny, obsessive female wanting her man at any cost. The series does a great job keeping us engrossed. It moves fast, and unpredictably, and we go from what we think is a tepid small-town tale to an intense drama where conversations are sprinkled with casual references of severed limbs and murder.

Tahir Raj Bhasin, while not the most charismatic of actors does well here. Aanchal Singh as the off-kilter Purva Awasthi is marvelous, changing colors chameleon-like, mellow and soft-spoken one moment, and clever and calculating the next. Shweta Tripathi is in yet another small-town, well-educated girl role (remember Mirzapur and Laakhon Mein Ek?) But she delivers the goods. The fantastic Sarah Shukla, Brijendra Kala and Surya Sharma (as the menacing Dharmesh) round off the great cast.

While a great watch, Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein could have used a little more thought into the development of relationships as in – Vikrant and Shikha’s bond. Also it wan’t quite clear to me why Vikrant’s parents regarded Akhiraj with such unadulterated adoration and couldn’t see his menace. The hero himself could have used some logical thinking and strategy.

Regardless, this is a well-made entertainer. Do watch!

Kidwise: Violence and foul language. 

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Movie Review : Janhit Mein Jaari (2022)

Posted on June 17, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️1/2
Genre: Drama
Year: 2022
Running time: 2 hours
Director: Jai Basantu Singh
Cast: Nushrrat Bharucha, Anud Singh Dhaka, Vijay Raaz, Brijendra Kala
Kid rating: PG-15

Janhit Mein Jaari, from its trailer, seemed a mix of humor and serious issues. It turned out to be actually that, and is a decent one-time watch, although rather rough around the edges.

Our heroine Manokamna ‘Manu’ Tripathi (Bharucha) of small town Chanderi is desperate to get a job and escape the parental nagging to get married. When she unwittingly snags a job selling condoms, she decides to keep it despite familial disapproval. The parents can be appeased, but how will boyfriend Ranjan Prajapati (Dhaka) and his family countenance a not-so-sanskari condom-selling bahu?

Janhit Mein Jaari (meaning: Issued in Public Interest) has a strong and funny premise. So yes, there’s a story, although it doesn’t have any logical flow. The first half of the film is entertaining, but the second starts to disintegrate when social issues and “world good” is pushed forcibly into the story. This film doesn’t know how to balance its Public Service Announcement (PSA) factor with its humor. One gets the feeling that director Singh couldn’t figure out what he wanted the film to be – it was a family drama, until it turned into a PSA, and then pointless, overdone emotional melodrama took over. 

This film does the small-town milieu well. This has been done before in films like Tanu Weds Manu but where that film did with it with polish and panache, this one does it with hammy, slightly overdone characters. 

The main characters show unrealistic shifts in their thought process. The heroine Manu displays independence of spirit, but turns into the dutiful bahu almost immediately after marriage. Then she decides she’d rather chuck the “good bahu” image because she’s found a calling. There was no logical growth, or a gradual sophistication to her thinking; it was just black one day and white another. You didn’t really believe her then when she goes on full-on crusade mode.

Similar treatment has been meted out to Vijay Raaz’s character. Raaz plays Manu’s father-in-law, contesting elections and very concerned about the family honor and image. Of course he looks askance at the condom-selling bahu, but then does a complete about-turn (this is Bollywood after all) with appropriate tears, drama and repentance towards the end.

While Bharucha makes the most of her rather one-toned character, I’m rather disappointed in Anud Singh Dhaka’s weak and inconsistent performance. I’d expected better after seeing him in the beautiful series Taj Mahal 1989 where he did very well. Or was that director Pushpendra Nath Singh working his magic?

Vijay Raaz is impeccable despite his poorly sketched character. And I rather liked the supporting cast – especially the other bhabhis in the household; each of them was interesting and deserves their own storylines. 

With this kind of story, there is the real danger that the film slips into vulgarity (many do) but thankfully that doesn’t happen here. There are some cringeworthy scenes like the Holi song and there is humor that is very much on the verge of being crass, but it doesn’t quite get there.

Director Singh can tell a story but does it in an unskilled, rather rough-edged fashion. The poor editing and abrupt transitions don’t help. Janhit Mein Jaari has a good pace, plenty of actual laughs, a talented cast and enough masala to keep you reasonably engrossed. It is a decent one time watch, but could have been a far more believable, polished movie in the hands of a better director.

Kidwise: A lot of talk about condoms. Some talk about sex and contraception.

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Movie Review : Jalsa (2022)

Posted on June 10, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Genre: Drama
Year: 2022
Running time: 2 hours 6 minutes
Director: Suresh Triveni
Cast: Vidya Balan, Shefali Chaya, Rohini Hattangadi, Manav Kaul, Surya Kasibhatla
Kid rating: PG

Vidya Balan is Maya Menon, an outspoken journalist and TV anchor. She is also a single mother, and lives with her son Ayush and mother (Rohini Hattangadi). Rukhsana Mohammad (Shah) is her loyal maid, who helps look after Ayush who has cerebral palsy. When, one night, driving home from work, Maya is involved in an accident, she panics and leaves a girl bleeding on the road. Shaken, she returns home, doesn’t tell anyone and attempts to get rid of/clean up the evidence linking her to the accident. The next day she realizes that the nameless, faceless, young girl she left bleeding on the road is her maid Rukhsana’s daughter, the very same Ruksana who looks after Ayush so lovingly.

Jalsa is about a moral quandary. Maya, the outspoken upholder of truth finds herself in a situation she’d rather keep mum about. Ruksana is the distraught mother who is grateful to her employer for her help with her daughter not knowing that Maya herself is responsible. The film takes an incident and presents points of view from all around it. Nothing is black and white; each person involved has his/her own problems and pressures.

Director Suresh Triveni makes a fine film, etching out his characters realistically and presenting them to us, the viewers, as real people with moral and personal conundrums. Both Shah and Balan are marvelous. Rohini Hattangadi has a small role as Maya’s mother but she is superb in it. Surya Kasibhatla as Ayush and Shafeen Patel as Ruksana’s young son Imad are very good too.

Jalsa (celebration) is a slow-moving thriller and emotional drama. The first half deals with the accident, Maya’s mental perturbation, and her fear of being found out. The latter part of the film delves deep into issues of the class divide, morality, right and wrong.

Kidwise: Rather weighty for the younger ones. A few adult situations, although nothing explicit is shown.

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Series Review : Kota Factory (2021)

Posted on June 4, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre : Comedy
Year : 2022
Seasons: 2
Director : Raghav Subbu
Cast : Jitendra Kumar, Mayur More, Ranjan Raj, Alam Khan
Kid rating : PG-15

From the TVF stable, Kota Factory initially released on YouTube and was widely appreciated before its release on Netflix. Kota is a city in India which is famous for its coaching academies and students come here from all over the country to prepare for the IIT JEE (Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Exam). This then is the “factory” spewing out worthy candidates who can hope to crack the JEE. 

Most of these coaching institutes are residential schools where students come and live, and study for the JEE entrance as well as complete coursework for the 11th and 12th grades. Most of the time is spent in preparing for the JEE, the attention to required school grades (11th and 12th) is perfunctory.

Kota Factory is the story of one particular student, Vaibhav Pandey (Mayur More) who wants to join the reputed Maheshwari Coaching classes but is not able to do so. He settles for the next best option – Prodigy Classes, where he intends to work very hard with a view to switching to Maheshwari later. At Prodigy, he makes friends and talks to the teachers. Uday Gupta (Alam Khan) and Balmukund Meena (Ranjan Raj) become especially good friends and Vaibhav comes to look up to one teacher, Jeetu Bhaiyya, in particular. Jeetu Bhaiya (Jitendra Kumar) while being an excellent teacher also helps the students overcome personal issues like loneliness, sickness and helps keep their morale up.

Kota Factory is shot in black and white, and is an engrossing and entertaining show. We root for Vaibhav and are as impressed with Jeetu Bhaiiya as Vaibhav is. The writing (by Saurabh Khanna) is excellent, and the series is beautifully made. The actors do very well, the series is well-paced and entertaining, offering up plentiful drama, twists and turns, and humor. Also some great music.

Kota Factory has 2 relatively short seasons (a third is in production) and is another feather in the cap for TVF. This is a must watch!

Kidwise: Some episodes veer into adult situations, but for the most part this is quite family-friendly.

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Movie Review : Thar (2022)

Posted on May 31, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️1/2
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2022
Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes
Director: Raj Singh Chaudhary
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Harshvardhan Kapoor, Fatima Sana Sheikh
Kid rating: PG-17

Anil Kapoor stars as Police Inspector Surekha Singh, head of a police station in Munabao village, India along the Into-Pakistan border. When a dead body is found hanging from a tree, Singh is spurred into action by the unusual incident in this sleepy village. Is the grisly death due to a local squabble or is it the work of an outsider?

There is a newbie in town – antiques dealer Siddharth Kumar (Harshvardhan Kapoor). Then there is the opium smuggler from across the border Hanif Khan (Rahul Singh). Surekha Singh questions the antiques dealer, but the smuggler wages a surreptitious battle and is hard to get hold of. Halfway through the film, we, the viewers are privy to the identity of the murderer so the second half of the film is watching Surekha Singh figure this out.

Thar could have been a gritty mystery thriller but fails to impress. The locales are realistic, but the same can’t be said of the characters. The characters are flat; we are barely even are invested in Surekha’s quest for justice. It’s not that his character isn’t vulnerable; Surekha Singh is close to retirement, hasn’t had a great career because as he puts it, his focus has been only on staying alive. A wizened old on-the-verge-of-retirement police officer mired in the unforgiving heat of the desert, tied to a thankless job, sans any excitement or career prospects – one wants to empathize with that, doesn’t one? I still couldn’t. That’s a pity. And quite a fatal flaw in the film.

Anil Kapoor, with his snazzy shades, still looks urban and not rustic enough for a remote police thana in the Rajasthan desert. Harshvardhan isn’t quite the actor his father is; his expressions are wooden throughout the movie. Satish Kaushik (whom I last saw in Udta Punjab) as Sub Inspector Bhura was quite believable and fit the role. Fatima Sana Sheikh does well with the little material she’s given; her character and the allusions to domestic violence and repression of females in the hinterland are ultimately wasted.

Thar gets pretty gruesome as we witness the perpetrator torturing his victims. And the whole torture thing took up way too much time and space in this film, time the director could have used instead to build an emotional connect to the story. The film has plot points which don’t add to the story or flesh out any more details, so the film feels untethered and not very cohesive. Thar’s locales – the brutal, unforgiving desert gives it a starkness, an intensity and a grittiness. Unfortunately, just great locales do not a good film make. 

In summary, Thar is a one-time watch. Don’t watch it with any great expectations and you won’t be disappointed.

Kidwise: Scenes showing gruesome violence/torture.

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Series Review : Eternally Confused And Eager For Love (2022)

Posted on May 20, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Genre : Comedy
Year : 2022
Seasons: 1 Episodes: 8
Director : Rahul Nair
Cast : Vihaan Samaat, Rahul Bose, Suchitra Pillai, Jim Sarbh, Dalai, Ankur Rathee
Kid rating : PG-17

Ray is a young man in his early 20s, looking to find the perfect girl. Or to find a girl really, because as self-sabotaging as Ray is, perfection will be impossible. Aiding him in this are mummy and daddy, overbearing mummy played by Suchitra Pillai and eccentric dad by Rahul Bose. Ray has a good job, a steadfast friend in lovely Riya (Dalai), an alpha-male almost-friend in Varun (Ankur Rathee) and a doubting inner voice in Wiz. He comes from a good family, is presentable, earnest and almost charming, but alas, he remains undate-able. Is there no hope for Ray?

This is a series about a whole lot of nothing but it is fun and quirky. A lot of the quirkiness comes from Ray’s conversations with his inner voice. The inner voice has a name (Wiz) and a face, and he is everywhere either as a figurine in Ray’s room or as a picture of a bearded, wizened old wizard in flowing robes Ray keeps pinned to his cubicle wall. Jim Sarbh voices Wiz, a snarky, sarcastic, sometimes cruel voice which pulls down Ray and keeps his self-belief low.

True to the Akhtar roots, Ray’s affluent family home is kinda like richie-rich Akash’s (from Dil Chahta Hai) home. Ray and his friends are all well-turned out, drive nice cars, party at swanky bars so the roti, kapda and makaan are all taken care of. His problems then are of the frivolous sort, if you will. Eternally Confused and Eager For Love is about an awkward young man stuck in equally weird, awkward social situations of his own making. And what’s not fun to watch about that?

Ray, played by Vihaan Samaat, executes this role with panache – a nice mix of pleasant charm and hyperactive insecurities. Also great comic timing, Are all young people this neurotic these days? The shrinks must be raking it in. Still one feels for awkward young Ray and hopes that he will find a lovely girl to help tamp down the neuroses and realize his self-worth.

This series comes from Excel Entertainment (Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani) and Tiger Baby (Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti) so you already know that this will be out of the ordinary. And it is. Think of it as a frivolous, fluffier Panchayat, for the city crowd, minus the real-world problems, social work and self-realization (although that is coming in future seasons I think – the self-realization that is, not the social work). 

Eternally Confused And Eager For Love is a binge-worthy, light-hearted watch. See it for the excellent cast, witty writing, and quirky situational humor.

Kidwise: Some adult/sexual situations.

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Series Review : Guilty Minds (2022)

Posted on May 13, 2022 by amodini

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre : Drama
Year : 2022
Seasons: 1 Episodes: 10
Director : Shefali Bhushan, Jayant Somalkar
Cast : Shriya Pilgaonkar, Varun Mitra, Namrata Sheth, Sugandha Garg
Kid rating : PG-17

Guilty Minds is about law and two lawyer friends practicing their version of it. Kashaf Quaze (Pilgaonkar) and Deepak Rana (Mitra) are friends from law school. While Deepak is a partner with K&K, which is headed by the old patriarch K.N. Khanna, Kashaf has her own practice with good friend Vandana Kathpalia (Garg). Both deal with cases in court sometimes as opposing counsel, but their friendship remains steadfast. 

Each episode in the series features a case (or cases) which lasts the length of the episode and sometimes longer. The cases are interesting and range from age old murder and morality issues to newer fangled ones like dealing with self-driving cars and IVF procedures. 

But what really makes Guilty Minds great is the seamless meshing of the professional and personal lives. We get to know not only Kashaf and Deepak, but also the Khanna clan (which run K&K) Kashaf’s family and Vandana and her struggles. 

Both Kashaf and Deepak are honest, upright lawyers who want to see justice served. While Kashaf stands tall in her practice, Deepak tries to influence policies in his law firm to do the right thing. Kashaf’s family dynamics are explored – she lives with her family and her father is a sitting Supreme Court Justice. Deepak’s family and checkered background are also shown. There’s a romantic angle to the tale too – between Kashaf and Deepak, with Deepak in pursuit and Kashaf demurring.

Guilty Minds is the “law” version of ER, and quite comparable in quality. All the actors are excellent. Kulbhushan Kharbanda ia a veteran of Bollywood films and doesn’t need an introduction. Shriya Pilgaonkar was recently in Mirzapur (as Sweety Gupta). I haven’t see Varun Mitra in anything else, but with his excellent acting chops he should do well in films too! 

I binged through Season 1 fairly quickly and can’t wait for Season 2!

Kidwise: Some sexual situations – both hetero and homo, although not explicit or too long.

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