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Panchayat (2020)
Watch it for its simplicity and rural journey
After watching a lot of thrillers and drama over the lockdown period I wanted to see something different, simple and funny. And the choice of Panchayat did not disappoint at all. Look, there is nothing much happening in the series, there is no thrilling plot, no high-low emotional dramas, no exciting climax..nothing. But still you would love it because of its simplicity and rural journey the plot undertakes in 8 episodes.
The story is set in a rural village of UP. The lead of the series is from NCR who couldnt get into a corporate role while his friends have. He took the opportunity in as a panchayat secretary in UP village just as there was no other alternate options available. Still throughout the story he still want to appear for CAT and get into IIM and from there to a corporate life. What I liked about about the story is that there is no dramatic change of his feelings and overnight he doesnt become emotionally close to the village. No nothing, he still wants to get out of the village and pursue the corporate career dream. So there is consistency there and no dramatic change as such.
The highlight of the series is the acting from mostly all of them. Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Chandan Roy, Neena Gupta, Faisal Malik all them have given their best shot. But to me it was Raghubir Yadav who stole the show. His character mostly goes through the shades of chauvinistic male politician but still a caring husband and a caring father, practical and cunning politician but still good at heart, a good friend. He was simply good.
Overall you will love the rural charm and the feel good factor. Just watch it for that.
Betaal (2020)
Nothing great
I have seen rave reviews on this on the 1st day itself and decided to spend my Sun afternoon on this, a bad decision. Only watch it if you want to have an experience of a Indian/Hindi zombie flick. Leave aside any logic, there is nothing thrilling nor there is any real horror sequence. To be frank I thought of discontinuing after 2nd episode, but thought there could be a thrilling plot getting developed ahead and continued. There is no consistency in the whole plot, sometime the spirits/zombies are superpower and at times they are at mercy of others even to untie a rope. So all in all watch it if you have absolutely nothing else to pass time.
Paatal Lok (2020)
Good performance, pathetic storyline, propaganda
Good things first - the actors have delivered strong performance through out. Whether it is Jaideep Alhawat, Neeraj Kabi or Ishwak Singh. I noticed Jaideep's performance in Bard of blood, and can say this one is even better.
Coming to the overall review, at least they had an interesting plot. When I say plot, i mean a one-liner like 4 criminals captured alive while trying to murder leading journalist of the country. But when they developed this into a full storyline, it became too weak, feeble and wasted. The whole pieces when put-together gives you a make-believe story and plot which fails big time.
The makers have tried to slip-in and sell a propaganda. Some of the cliche scenes which you would have seen in some of the so called leftists film maker's product related to riots and communal tension. Cant believe we are seeing these one sided advertisement even on these new gen platforms.
Overall, regret wasting my time !!!
When Heroes Fly (2018)
Promised a lot, fizzled out in the end
It started of like any other thriller from Israeli thrill factory. Background of military, friends, war history together and something new in the form getting to know about one's girlfriend who was supposed to be dead 8-9 yrs back. The plot was good and captive. But somewhere from episode 5-6 it was all the usual cliches and the last episode was bizzare to say the least.