I am at loss of words because I really wanted to like this show. A plethora of issues with the setting, accuracy, story just left me with a what did I just watch feeling.
First, the first two episodes were very confusing to track until the story actually starts in the third with two of the women setting up as vying to fight to be the leader. But then for some reason bhansali decides this is going to be a freedom fight story?
Historically almost everything was wrong. The dresses were not lahori, the Urdu was not lahori, the riches shown were absolutely no longer present in the 1920s. The music while great was also completely wrong. We actually have many singers from heera Mandi on record now. The houses are wrong, and he seems to want to marry mughal e Azam / Mughal era lavishness into 1920s rebellion. Does not work.
This show could have been so much better. It ends up being a nothing show with no story, wrong history. Mediocre at best.
First, the first two episodes were very confusing to track until the story actually starts in the third with two of the women setting up as vying to fight to be the leader. But then for some reason bhansali decides this is going to be a freedom fight story?
Historically almost everything was wrong. The dresses were not lahori, the Urdu was not lahori, the riches shown were absolutely no longer present in the 1920s. The music while great was also completely wrong. We actually have many singers from heera Mandi on record now. The houses are wrong, and he seems to want to marry mughal e Azam / Mughal era lavishness into 1920s rebellion. Does not work.
This show could have been so much better. It ends up being a nothing show with no story, wrong history. Mediocre at best.
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