Cast: Lakshya Lalwani, Bobby Deol, Raghav Juyal, Sahher Bambba, Mona Singh, Anya Singh, Arshad Warsi, Karan Johar, Manish Chaudhary
Crew:
Written by Aryan Khan, Bilal Siddiqi, Manav Chauhan
Cinematography by Jay Oza
Music by Ujwal Gupta, Anirudh Ravichander, Shashwat Sachdev
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Director Aryan Khan
Producer Gauri Khan
No: of Episodes: 07
Language: Hindi
Genre: Crass and Sarcasm Humor
Available on Netflix
The Ba****ds of Bollywood web-series intrigued many with almost entire Bollywood stars appearing in cameos and the plot being related to Bollywood, itself. Mainly, Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan debuting as a director enhanced the buzz further. Bobby Deol, Lakshya, Raghav Juyal being among major cast excited audiences even more. The show has been released on Netflix. Let’s discuss about the series, now.
Plot:
Aasmaan Singh (Lakshya Lalwani) delivers a blockbuster with his film, Revolver. The film’s producer Freddy Sodawallah (Manav Chaturvedi) wants him to sign a three-film exclusive deal. Aasmaan doesn’t hesitate but his manager Sanya (Anya Singh) stops him and tries to find him a film in the direction of Karan Johar, as Ranveer Singh decided to quit it. Aasmaan’s friend Parvaiz (Raghav Juyal) keeps him company and tags along with him everywhere.
Sonya finalises Karan’s film and Aasmaan has to back out of the deal with Sodawallah. Normally, very crude, Sodawallah lets him to work with KJO and comeback. KJO decides to launch big star Ajay Talvar (Bobby Deol)’s daughter Karishma Talvar (Sahher Bambba) as the leading lady. Ajay has a problem with Aasmaan being the leading man of the film. Why? What is the issue? How does political games in Bollywood keep affecting Aasmaan’s career? Watch the series to know more.
Analysis:
Aryan Khan as a director impresses with his staging and lavish vision as a director. He is confident to crack jokes on inside parties and lavish lifestyle of big stars. He even gives some weird characters to many actors and brings out their best in it. Raghav Juyal carries most of the comic sequences in his style and he appears to be the best among all the cast with his lines.
Along with him, Manoj Pahwa gives standout comic moments. Among strong emotional performances Bobby Deol stands out. Lakshya and Sahher also deliver good performances. Anya Singh, Karan Johar, Manish Chaudhary, Rajat Bedi give very good performances but at places their sequences seem to drag. Mona Singh is also very good in believable mother role.
While humor lands in many sequences, profanity is too much at many places. It feels like every scene and dialogue has been crafted to find some style of profanity edge to it. Maybe a style that Aryan wanted to touch for his debut but he could have avoided that at few places. He gives emotional moments enough space to breathe but takes the action parts to exaggerate levels in climax.
Emraan Hashmi, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan cameos leave with some good moments. Still, the climax twist will be too much for majority of audiences as it is dealt with comedy and also serious emotion. It is an exaggerated way to state that anything can happen and not take it too seriously. Aryan Khan does showcase his talent to present everything in his own style but he could have looked at pacing dips and even tighter screenplay. Overall, it would welcome highly mixed reactions.
Bottomline:
A satire that engages for a lot of time but hits many bumps before a bold climax.
Rating: 2.5/5
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