Call My Agent Bollywood

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.

Probably one of the worst series produced by Netflix?

Who is approving their Indian content?

I mean.. not engaging at all. The story, writing and the whole vibe is depressing!

I generally like to start reviews with the good things but to be honest this show other than introducing the general audience to the original has no other positive things going in it's favour.

When I saw the first episode of the French show I thought it would be fun to watch the bollywood version of that because of all the name dropping and other references we would get of bollywood that I completely missed out in the French version.

Not only did we not get any good bollywood references or inside jokes. This series even fails to mimic the emotions the original show was trying to portray.

Writing - We know the plot works as we've seen it work in the original show. So what fails here is the dialogues. The dialogues feel like literal translations of the English subtitles. Also the fact that the shows is dubbed later and the on set sound not used makes the dialogue feel unnatural.

Art - The set feels very fake. The lighting is not natural. The backdrop in the windows are clearly fake. Maybe I'm nitpicking too much but it bothered me atleast.

Actors - The curly haired assistant is the only one who worked for me honestly. Even though the cast is star packed the show fails to make an effect like the original did.

Direction - This is where the shows lacks the most. The one shots and the lack of cut aways instead of elevating the episode really ruins the important emotional points in the show. Also bollywood is synonymous with mumbai so not using mumbai in main scenes and just using them as transitions really lowers the quality of production.

TLDR; Non existant name dropping, bad art, bad dialogues and most importantly bad directing makes this show a very bad remake of a good show.

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.

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.