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Padmini (Netflix orig. Malayalam w/Eng. Subs.) is a cleverly made comedy with plenty of hilarious moments and (un)intentional digs at various social issues :-)
Rameshan (Kunchacko Boban) is a well liked teacher at the local school. He marries the crafty Smriti (Vincy Aloshius) who on their wedding night, promptly elopes with her lover in his Padmini car. Ramesh now becomes a laughing stock with his friends and colleagues who tease him as "Padmini" !!! Eventually Ramesh goes to a marriage broker for a second chance. He is sent to meet a prospective bride, Advocate Sreedevi (Aparna Balamurali)but the two do not gel. Sreedevi reluctantly gets engaged to a successful local businessman Jayan. A new and pretty teacher Padmini joins the school. Ramesh and Padmini bond well and decide to wed. However when the families meet, they discover that Ramesh has forgotten to divorce his first wife. Padmini's uncle is firm that unless Ramesh is legally divorced, the alliance can not proceed.
Laugh and smile your way through the subtle and in your face humour of this film to find out how the narration plays out!
Padmini (the film) is yet another well crafted Malayalam comedy. The acting is great, the sets, cinematography etc. All very good. I thoroughly enjoyed this film.
Highly recommended.
Rameshan (Kunchacko Boban) is a well liked teacher at the local school. He marries the crafty Smriti (Vincy Aloshius) who on their wedding night, promptly elopes with her lover in his Padmini car. Ramesh now becomes a laughing stock with his friends and colleagues who tease him as "Padmini" !!! Eventually Ramesh goes to a marriage broker for a second chance. He is sent to meet a prospective bride, Advocate Sreedevi (Aparna Balamurali)but the two do not gel. Sreedevi reluctantly gets engaged to a successful local businessman Jayan. A new and pretty teacher Padmini joins the school. Ramesh and Padmini bond well and decide to wed. However when the families meet, they discover that Ramesh has forgotten to divorce his first wife. Padmini's uncle is firm that unless Ramesh is legally divorced, the alliance can not proceed.
Laugh and smile your way through the subtle and in your face humour of this film to find out how the narration plays out!
Padmini (the film) is yet another well crafted Malayalam comedy. The acting is great, the sets, cinematography etc. All very good. I thoroughly enjoyed this film.
Highly recommended.
Just finished watching S2 over three days on PrimeVideo (orig. Hindi/Eng. W/Eng. Subs).
I liked S1 a lot but that was over 3 years ago and I dont now recollect the episodes in detail.
S2 is very good. The narrative revolveds around the people at a Delhi wedding planner outfit Made In Heaven, headed by Tara (Sobhita Dhulipala) Karan (Arjun Mathur) Jauhari(Vijay Raaz) Bulbul Jauhari (Mona Singh) Kabir (Shashank Arora) Jazz (Shivani Raghuvanshi) Meher (Trinetra Gummaraju), Tara's about to be divorced husband Adil (Jim Sarbh) Adil's soon to be new wife Faiza (Kalki Koechlin) and many others.
Most of their clients are well heeled families, some are celebrities and expectedly there is a lot of show, glamour and glitzy sets but this series is much more than just that.
Most of the lead characters are fun people but with their own eccentricities, quirks and often dark pasts. The episodes touch relevant social issues like abusive relationships, extramarital affairs, bigamy, problems with kids whose parents are divorced, schoolkids indulging in sexual activity with dire consequences, LGBT relationships and so forth.
The stories are interesting with several intriguing side plots. No need for Spoilers, watch and enjoy!
Good acting and cinematography. This is a very watchable series leaving scope for a Season 3, just hope there is no long gap in between.
Negatives: Too many intimate scenes. Undoubtedly these draw a bigger audience but sometimes just a hint of intimacy would more than suffice. Tara is mostly shown walking as though she's permanently strutting down a catwalk, wonder why !!! Also couldnt fathom why she was so determined to claim the Khanna home in her settlement.
I liked S1 a lot but that was over 3 years ago and I dont now recollect the episodes in detail.
S2 is very good. The narrative revolveds around the people at a Delhi wedding planner outfit Made In Heaven, headed by Tara (Sobhita Dhulipala) Karan (Arjun Mathur) Jauhari(Vijay Raaz) Bulbul Jauhari (Mona Singh) Kabir (Shashank Arora) Jazz (Shivani Raghuvanshi) Meher (Trinetra Gummaraju), Tara's about to be divorced husband Adil (Jim Sarbh) Adil's soon to be new wife Faiza (Kalki Koechlin) and many others.
Most of their clients are well heeled families, some are celebrities and expectedly there is a lot of show, glamour and glitzy sets but this series is much more than just that.
Most of the lead characters are fun people but with their own eccentricities, quirks and often dark pasts. The episodes touch relevant social issues like abusive relationships, extramarital affairs, bigamy, problems with kids whose parents are divorced, schoolkids indulging in sexual activity with dire consequences, LGBT relationships and so forth.
The stories are interesting with several intriguing side plots. No need for Spoilers, watch and enjoy!
Good acting and cinematography. This is a very watchable series leaving scope for a Season 3, just hope there is no long gap in between.
Negatives: Too many intimate scenes. Undoubtedly these draw a bigger audience but sometimes just a hint of intimacy would more than suffice. Tara is mostly shown walking as though she's permanently strutting down a catwalk, wonder why !!! Also couldnt fathom why she was so determined to claim the Khanna home in her settlement.
I watched the web series Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story on SonyLiv in orig. Hindi/Eng. W/Eng. Subtitles.
Director Hansal Mehta has come up trumps with an engrossing narration from beginning to end. I was never into the stock market but I do remember the news reports of those days when Harshad Mehta was exposed and raided, also when he died in custody of a heart attack.
The series is based on the book Scam 1992 by Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal. Sucheta who was then a business journalist "exposed" the Harshad Mehta scam and rose to become TOI's Financial Editor.
Pratik Gandhi who I hadn't heard of before, is brilliant as Harshad Mehta. Pratik deserves an award for his excellent portrayal of a likeable Harshad who rose from simplicity to extraordinary heights, making one grudgingly admire the crafty brilliance of the Big Bull.
On the other hand Shreya Dhanwanthary makes her character Sucheta look like a person presenting a holier than thou image, an opportunist who leaves no stone unturned to selectively "expose the corrupt" ... and with a distinctly vindictive streak. Sucheta's character is perhaps intended to be viewed thus .. Eventually Sucheta was rewarded with a Padma award for her efforts.
BTW, never figured out who Sucheta's main source was in real life. Whereas other big names including former PM Narasimha Rao were bandied about freely in the series.
No Spoilers ... do watch this extremely well made and very watchable series. Suffice it to say that you may wonder why some got away while Harshad was destroyed, and more significantly how nothing has really changed, if anything it is worse in current times .....
Director Hansal Mehta has come up trumps with an engrossing narration from beginning to end. I was never into the stock market but I do remember the news reports of those days when Harshad Mehta was exposed and raided, also when he died in custody of a heart attack.
The series is based on the book Scam 1992 by Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal. Sucheta who was then a business journalist "exposed" the Harshad Mehta scam and rose to become TOI's Financial Editor.
Pratik Gandhi who I hadn't heard of before, is brilliant as Harshad Mehta. Pratik deserves an award for his excellent portrayal of a likeable Harshad who rose from simplicity to extraordinary heights, making one grudgingly admire the crafty brilliance of the Big Bull.
On the other hand Shreya Dhanwanthary makes her character Sucheta look like a person presenting a holier than thou image, an opportunist who leaves no stone unturned to selectively "expose the corrupt" ... and with a distinctly vindictive streak. Sucheta's character is perhaps intended to be viewed thus .. Eventually Sucheta was rewarded with a Padma award for her efforts.
BTW, never figured out who Sucheta's main source was in real life. Whereas other big names including former PM Narasimha Rao were bandied about freely in the series.
No Spoilers ... do watch this extremely well made and very watchable series. Suffice it to say that you may wonder why some got away while Harshad was destroyed, and more significantly how nothing has really changed, if anything it is worse in current times .....
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