Call My Agent Bollywood

Absolutely, the worst of everything. Period. Since the review requires at least 150 characters, let me reiterate, absolutely, the worst of everything.

Do not watch this show. Watch the original, which is ALSO on Netflix. I watched till Ep.6, 'In the Dog House', and I finally broke the patience barrier to bear with this.

The original is Call My Agent (Dix Pour Cent), and it is so hilarious, so original and so nicely written that after the first 2 episodes you will be absolutely hooked !

Don't waste your time watching this, I already did that on your behalf. You are welcome.

I am a massive fan of the original french series. It has heart, emotions and comedy all packaged together in a nice, easy to digest show that doesn't demand you to pay a lot of attention. This adaptation, however, seems to be a massive oversight on the part of the writers. The script is incredibly shallow and lack any sort of depth. The dialogue are trite. The shift in tone from the original series is surprising, I go even as far as to say that it feels like an afterthought. The attempts to include the typical bollywood tropes seems really hacky and to no one's surprise extremely unfunny and vapid. The performances weren't as bad as the script but not good enough the save this disaster.

There's a scene in the second or third episode where farah khan wants to direct these actors in the movie, and seeing their intensity during the audition, she exclaims something like, we are making something commercial, we only want to scratch the surface of the emotions you are showing. And that's it. That's the entire series. They have commercialised the original series to such an absurd extent that it makes you wonder why did they insist on copying not just the plot lines, but the dialogues, word to word. What works for paris doesn't necessarily have to work for mumbai, which is not a bad thing; better stories could have been written, keeping the same characters in mind. Instead we get a ham-fisted xerox of the original, that really makes you question the point of watching this when the far superior version exists just a click away.

This show will never be close to the original French one. Actors are so overacting and so much dramas. Its like watching one of those hindi TV serials all over again. Expected much more standards for shows from Netflix. Its clearly showing bollywood is losing all the good acting shows and stories and even good actors.