That being said, I’m not sure Sacred Games is ready to be judged yet. Motwane’s portions with Saif Ali Khan as an under-confident Sikh inspector expose the textural underbelly of a city – and more importantly, a sense of time –far more originally. Kashyap’s portions – chronicling the rise of Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a gangster kingpin – are not too different, density and mood-wise, from Faizal Khan’s corresponding track in the Gangs of Wasseypur universe. It’s not a new problem the best of writers often tend to forget that viewers can’t read between the lines that they are tasked to live with. But I suspect Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane’s exquisitely performed screen adaptation has subconsciously been translated by writers who might have internalized the social undertones, subtexts and latitudinal beats of the 928-page drama so deeply that its interlinked structure and preconceived obsession with narrative suspense are both beguiling and frustrating. I haven’t read author Vikram Chandra’s sprawling novel. Hindsight, like sports highlights, isn’t the same as real time. Curse, because of precisely the same thing: Artistic expression in this day and age can seldom be critiqued in isolation from its cultural context – that is, the day and age of its own voice. Boon, because the hype machine and pop-culture posturing subsides – I managed to see Sacred Games as less of an event (India’s first Netflix original) and more of a…web show. Watching a famous title months after its release is both a boon and a curse.
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Read the full here SACRED GAMES (Netflix) I thoroughly enjoyed the chemistry between Naveen Richard and Sumukhi Suresh – incidentally also the two behind last year’s deceptively powerful stalker dramedy, Pushpavalli. Tongue-firmly-in-cheek, it satirizes everything from a toxic workspace culture, abusive start-up equations, gender privilege and hierarchical imbalance – all of which ironically defined the ‘foundation’ of the Indian #MeToo movement.
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The series builds upon a promising first season to localize its ambitions, integrate a sense of craft into observational standup-comic commentary and stretch beyond the limited intellectuality of its format. The Office -style parody about a bumbling Mumbai-based NGO remains a rare instance where Indian creators have employed the precise interactional language of the ‘mockumentary’ (mock-documentary) as more than just a visual gimmick. Hotstar’s kneejerk decision to pull the entire second season in the wake of actor/comedian Utsav Chakraborty’s sexual misdemeanors shouldn’t define what BLF S02 actually achieved in context of the web landscape. The show deserves better than a controversy. This year, I find it almost unfair to rate them against one another – separate spaces, separate perceptions of the engagement-versus-entertainment and lightweight-versus-heavyweight debate.Īnd with this cripplingly non-committal disclaimer, here are the 5 best Indian web shows of 2018, in no particular order : BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION S02 The result: every genre finds representation here – a coming-of-age companionship drama, a workspace comedy, two starkly different cop-v/s-criminal time-sensitive thrillers, a hinterland mafia thriller, a socio-supernatural horror series, a nostalgia-filled ‘90s childhood portrait, and even a self-referential Bollywood satire. In a country like ours, perhaps it makes sense that “more” is nothing and everything. More streaming platforms, more content, more money, and more bad decisions…but also more risks and more breakthroughs. The new medium has expanded, and with it, its commercial and creative range. Naturally, I wondered if this particular year-ender would soon be renamed the ‘Least Worst of’ list then.īut 2018, I am happy to report, has been considerably – if not infinitely – better.
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The whole story revolves around how Dhruv investigates the matter just for an answer.This time last December, I was struggling to find five decent Indian web shows in 2017, forget naming the frontbenchers (maybe it was appropriate that an underdog tuition-class drama, Laakhon Mein Ek, “ranked” first). Tamanna and Dhruv love each other, but just before the flight to London with Dhruv, Tamanna disappears.