Season 3 of any series feels like a tricky space. The first season always has the advantage of something new being delivered to the audience. The second season has the edge of the premise and characters being familiar. The makers can either scale up the story or even repeat the same thing, and it might… Continue reading Panchayat: Season 3 Review | An Emotionally Hefty Season That Works as an Appealing Second Act
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Aspirants Season 2 Review | This One Sets Things up Nicely for an Enticing Third Season
Blending that classic Indian texture of filmy drama with the series format is not an easy one to crack. Many shows that used the filmy approach to address the content have not really connected as they couldn’t find a striking balance between the content and the treatment. Aspirants Season 1, which I saw on YouTube… Continue reading Aspirants Season 2 Review | This One Sets Things up Nicely for an Enticing Third Season
Panchayat: Season 2
When you are creating something without a proper central conflict, there isn’t much there to drive the story forward, and often it happens that the script just lingers on to a particular idea and abandons it midway. Panchayat from TVF is a series that explores such a difficult terrain of screenplay writing. The show has… Continue reading Panchayat: Season 2
Aspirants
It might have this feeling of being a mix of movies like 3 Idiots, Dil Chahta Hai, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, etc., but Aspirants, the new TVF original, wins you over with the feel factor. There is a reason why movies like ZNMD and Dil Chahta Hai are on the repeat watch list of many… Continue reading Aspirants