Bestseller

I don't know why I am giving 6 star here. I mean I enjoyed watching the series because I watched it at one go. But in the mean time couldn't tolerate the pathetic acting of Shruti. Story was some extent to okay but for me it was way predictable. Ending seems like the longer version of Haseen Dillruba! Having Mixture feelings tbh.

Web Series review: Bestseller streaming on Prime Video #sanjuzzreviews #bestsellershewrote #bestsellerwebseriesprimevideo #bestsellerwebseries #ravisubramanian Based on Ravi Subramanian's novel "Bestseller She Wrote" this series tells the story of a cocky & egoistic writer Tahir Wazir (Arjan Bajwa) who is suffering from a writer's block and currently under pressure from his publishers for not having written anything since his last hit novel "Rand,Saand,Seedhi, Sanyasi" and is looking for ideas. And lo.. out of the blue, here appears an ardent, devoted, beautiful, yet mysterious fan Meetu( Shruti Hassan) !! Upon interacting with her, the writer feels that the lady can give him the story he needs to write a sequel to his earlier novel. Despite the growing awkwardness felt by his wife Mayanka( Gauhar Khan), he hires Meetu as his assistant. Things go well for a while as he apparently gets over his writers block and starts writing with renewed energy. But then, things take a turn for the worse.... Has it got something to do with Tahir's past? Why is someone out to get him with a vengeance? These are some of the questions which the series attempts to answer.

The narrative might seem a bit laid back and lethargic to start off with, but soon picks up pace and keeps the viewers engrossed. The big reveal unfortunately happens in the 5th episode, something which could've been delayed till the 7th, considering that this series falls in the thriller genre. Leaving this aside, the story moves back & forth in time and the flashbacks are well handled and compliment the narrative perfectly.

Casting is decent with Mithun da giving a stellar performance as the quirky CID officer and is ably assisted by Sonalee Kulkarni. Protagonists Arjan Bajwa & Shruti Hassan are not bad, but unfortunately, not great either. Gauhar Khan gives an earnest performance which is worth appreciating.

Ending has been very well executed with poetic justice served.

This 8 part series with each episode having a runtime of around 35 mins is a decent bingewatch option.

My rating 3/5 .... Adios 🙂

Best Seller is an Average thriller where you can easily guess the end within fifty percent of its run time. Story is simple. An ambitious but less talented author used a true Story of a family in his books and which easily becomes a best seller. But the impact is such which almost ruins that family. Now the brother and sister duo of that family make a plan to get revenge against that author. Too much unfolding of suspence too early make the best seller highly predictive from the first episode itself. But still you can watch it upto last episode due to sound performance of all the casts. Perfomence of Arjan Bajwa as ambitious author Tahir Wajir is good. Gauahar Khan as Tahir's wife is fantastic. Bother Sister duo Satyajeet Dubey and Shruti Hassan as Parha Acharya and Meetu Mathur fulfill the needs of the script. But as a central character Shruti Hassan should be better because she got the ample scope with different shades in the Webseries. But ultimately Mithun Chakraborty as ACP Lokesh Pramanik steals the show. His style of acting , comic timing, emotions grip the Webseries particularly in the latter half. Though there is a reflection of Anil Kapoor and Samira Reddy's role of race in Mithun and Sonali Kulkarni's role in this web series. Slow starter Best Seller gets the momentum when Mithun enters the series in the third episode. But still it is strictly average with predictive end. The series highly justified one of the dialogue of that series which indicates end is fixed before the starting of a book.

I don't know why Shruthi is wearing contacts. There is no reason for her to do so. It's on the face and very noticeable at close ups. Her acting too is so bad. It's so evident of her innocent acting that isn't digestible. Even Satyajeet Dubey is very below average but as episodes go by, his acting feels OK as per his character. Everyone else are actually good in their acting especially Arjan Bajwa & Gauahar Khan. I am not a Gauahar fan but she has acted real good. I am a huge Mithun da fan but Mithun's character could have been played by anyone because it isn't anything special and is a dumb character because though the series tries to show that he is intelligent by doing something or understanding what others don't but that's not intelligence. That's bad writing of the character. Seriously Mithun da is wasted here.

The story is intriguing but when the reasons are revealed, the entire series falls flat. I understand who, why and what but the casting, the acting & the missing soul of the series made this a waste of my time.

Overall story is good. I'll say decent. Little weak in the past story could have done better. Characters were chosen well. Mithun da and Shruti Hassan have nailed it.

But the expectation for a web series will always be more, so need to bring out that content in the show. Just some good story and good execution will not be enough.