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RANJISH HI SAHI - V View Reviews #48

There is nothing new in the plotline of Ranjish Hi Sahi. Many Bollywood movie revolves around this type of extramarital love, separation, longing, guilt kind of masala. The hero Shankar (Tahir Raj Bhasin) after delivering 3 flop film in succession intend to meet Amna Parvez(Amala Paul) pure professional. Amna is in emotional turmoil after a ruined friendship with Zubair. She is attracted to Shankar, who is already married and follows next is the story for the next 8 episodes of the show. It is a fictional version of Mahesh Bhatt's life and his relationship with the late actor of Hindi Bollywood in the 70s, Parvin Bobi. The whole setting is in the 70s. Those who are aware of Bollywood of that time can easily guess the other characters, whose name is changed for the reel sake. Mahesh Bhatt becomes Shanker Vats, similarly, Mukesh becomes Ganesh and so on... The lead cast is Tahir Raj Bhasin, Amala Paul, Amrita Puri and Zarina Wahab. They have done justice to their characters. Tahir Bh...

EK THI BEGUM - V View Reviews #47

Ek Thi Begum is a revenge saga of a woman who loses her loved ones, first her husband then her unborn child. She was left with nothing to lose, so she fearlessly and boldly enters the world of goons and is determined to seek revenge at any cost. Ashraf Bhatkar(Anuja Sathe), the protagonist is the wife of Zaheer(Ankit Mohan) around whom the story revolves. Zaheer was a confidante of Maqsood, the underworld don, but now an arc rival and is killed. She wants to overturn Maqsood's empire by hook or crook. Season 1ends when Ashraf is wounded by Maqsood's men. Season 2 starts with her recovery and her new identity as Leela Paswan. She teams up with the underworld goon Ashwin(Hitesh Bhojraj) a drug dealer and slowly takes over his gang. The new player Shaqueel Ansari(Shaad Ali) has entered the game. They are all her stepping stone to reach her husband's murderer. The police, the politician, the underworld are all haunting for her. It's a powerful female lead story inspired by ...

THE WHISTLEBLOWER - V View Reviews #46

Inspired by one of the biggest education scams in the history of India, The Vyapam scam, the series The whistleblower is made. It slightly twisted the names of the characters, places and organisations for the reel story. What is VYAPAM Scam? The Madhya Pradesh government had formed an autonomous body, the professional Examination Board or Vyavsayak Pariksha Mandal (VYAPAM), whose job was to conduct entrance tests for the educational government job in the state. But the system got corrupted. Many ineligible students got through this examination. In return, a huge amount was collected from those students by conspirators. It involved many ministers of Madhya Pradesh, their secretaries, their staff, government officials, Employees of Vyapam, staff members of college and universities, politicians, contractors etc. This malpractice was deeply rooted in the system and was going on for decades. Though the first FIR was registered in the year 2000, this horrific scam involving more than 13 comp...

ARANYAK - V View Reviews #45

Ravishing Raveena Tandon is the headline of the series. She is at the front and centre of Aranyak. Along with her, the other central character is Parambrata Chatterjee as Angad. They both dominate the screen time. They both play the role of a cop with contrasting personalities, who need to work together on a case. Raveena Tandon as Kasturi is a local, friendly neighbourhood policewoman who knows the people and the place very well. Her procedure of handling cases is from the old school but effective, on the other hand, Angad is a city-bred cop with sophisticated crime-solving skills. He is shown to have come out to the hills after a terrible personal tragedy. They both make a solid pair. Their equation is maturely handled by the writer. The story is beautifully written. It sets in a small fictional town of Sironah in Himachal Pradesh. A young French girl Amiee who is on a holiday trip here is found raped and hanged on a tree in the forest. There were claw marks on her throat. The whole ...