Ajeeb Daastaans
Cast: Cast: Fatima Sana Shaikh, Jaideep Ahlawat, Arrman Ralhan (Majnu), Inayat Verma, Nushratt Bharruccha, Abhishek Banerjee (Khilauna), Konkana Sensharma, Aditi Rao Hydari (Geeli Pucchi), Shefali Shah, Manav Kaul (Ankahi)
Directors: Shashank Khaitan (Majnu), Raj Mehta (Khilauna), Neeraj Ghaywan (Geeli Pucchi), Kayoze Irani (Ankahi)
Netflix’s newest is a set of 4 quick tales bunched collectively as Ajeeb Daastaans. These are a combine of tales that weave into them a sense of freshness and triumph. Admittedly, one of them, Raj Mehta’s Khilauna, ends as a sheer shocker. Another phase, Ankahi by Kayoze Irani, climaxes into a enormous disappointment for the charecters, whereas Geeli Pucchi helmed by Neeraj Ghaywan leads us to what looks like a intelligent ploy to wrest an workplace place. Shashank Khaitan’s Majnu leaves us with a feel-good temper.
All the 4 within the anthology interact us, every imaginatively written and tightly scripted to inform us a story in nearly half-hour. Great, after we are made to sit down by a plodding 160 minutes or so of usually unnecessary narration. Also, Ajeeb Daastaans has been mounted tastefully and carried out by most actors to close perfection. There is a sense of authenticity, and the plots run with straightforward finesse.
Admittedly, Khilauna could also be onerous to digest, and I used to be left with this sense, oh however can this occur! Barring this, the others are totally plausible. Majnu could seem passe; we’ve got seen this in different movies and net sequence, however the delicate performances assist eclipse the shortage of novelty right here. And, the way wherein Geeli Pucchi underlines how a girl worker handled unfairly as a result of of her Dalit background will get again at her boss is superb. She doesn’t abuse him. She doesn’t beat him up, however like in a sport of chess, she checkmates him. The better part is, he doesn’t even realise it. This is what I name nice writing.
Now for some plot particulars. The first, Majnu (Romeo) , is the story of sad marriage between the wealthy and royal Babloo (Jaideep Ahlawat) and the gorgeous Lipakshi (Fatima Sana Shaikh). But on the night time of the marriage, he tells her to not anticipate him to consummate the connection. Then what do I do, she quips. Please preserve the decorum of the household, he solutions in an unfeeling tone. Young Lipakshi has her sexual urge, and naturally. So, she begins to stray. And when the good-looking and dashing Raj Kumar (Arrman Ralhani) arrives armed with an ambition to review in England – and thoughts you he’s the household driver’s son – Babloo begins feeling queasy. It is simple to guess how the narrative will movement, however the finish is kind of sudden.
Khilauna (Toy) is a power-packed tackle the social and financial disparities that are nonetheless rampant in what’s arguably a trendy India. Sushil (Abhishek Banerjee) is a street-side vendor who removes the creases of wealthy individuals’s garments. But struggles to iron out the ripples in his personal life. Nor can his lover, Meenal (Nushratt Bharruccha, too engaging to play a maid). Binny (Inayat Verma, and what a pretty efficiency), her seven-year-old daughter, is perky, and retains asking all of the unsuitable questions. What do you and Sushil do at night time, she desires to know, and baby’s thoughts is a sponge absorbing nearly all the things. But this can’t be a good factor.
Although, Geeli Pucchi (Wet Kisses) directed by Neeraj Ghaywan could seem to harp on lesbianism, the underlying message is all in regards to the covert cruelty of caste prejudice, of how a Dalit girl, Bharti Mandal (portrayed by Konkana Sensharma), regardless of her good schooling and credentials, is barred from an workplace place that finally goes to 1 from a larger caste. She is Priya Sharma (Aditi Rao Hydari), who finds that in an all-male set-up, the one different girl is Bharti. The two strike a friendship over shared lunch within the workplace canteen, and it quickly seems that their relationship is just not what it appears to be like like. Both are lesbians, and Priya is even married! In a very intelligent ploy, Bharti modifications the foundations of the sport. Both Hydari and Sensharma are improbable actors, and so they infuse radiance into thel quick. This offers a sure freshness to Geeli Pucchi.
Finally, Kayoze Irani’s Ankahi (Unsaid) additionally has a luminous solid in Shefali Shah, who as Natasha performs mom to a deaf-mute daughter, and Manav Kaul’s Kabir, a deaf-mute artist. Struggling throughout the confines of a marriage the place the person is detached to her wants and uncaring in the direction of the lady, Natasha falls into the arms of Kabir, pretending to be deaf-mute as properly. The finish jogged my memory of the George Clooney starrer, Up within the Air, the place he’s rattled discover his lover in a completely completely different avatar.
Rating: 3.5/5
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