Call My Agent(Netflix, 6 Episodes)
Directed by Shaad Ali
This adorable adaptation of the 2015 French series is the picture-perfect post-pandemic panacea with a heart that beats and loins that throb. It is everything that an adaptation should be: respectful to the original but not slavishly so.
Slave reminds of Ali Fazal who in one of the sexy sextet of episodes plays a medieval slave to Richa Chadha. For a film being directed by Hussain Dalal. Now , hear this. According to the script, Rich and Ali have broken up and must now perform a ferocious love-making scene for the camera. Ha ha ha.
The series is littered with such luscious inhouse jokes about Bollywood, like Tigmanshu Dhulia making a film called Paiydashi Killer co-starring Lilette Dubey and Ila Arun who, according to the script, can’t stand one another.The two actresses just kill it in the catfights. Nandita Das lets...
Directed by Shaad Ali
This adorable adaptation of the 2015 French series is the picture-perfect post-pandemic panacea with a heart that beats and loins that throb. It is everything that an adaptation should be: respectful to the original but not slavishly so.
Slave reminds of Ali Fazal who in one of the sexy sextet of episodes plays a medieval slave to Richa Chadha. For a film being directed by Hussain Dalal. Now , hear this. According to the script, Rich and Ali have broken up and must now perform a ferocious love-making scene for the camera. Ha ha ha.
The series is littered with such luscious inhouse jokes about Bollywood, like Tigmanshu Dhulia making a film called Paiydashi Killer co-starring Lilette Dubey and Ila Arun who, according to the script, can’t stand one another.The two actresses just kill it in the catfights. Nandita Das lets...
- 11/1/2021
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
New talent is always welcome. The six stories of this uneven omnibus promise something fresh. But on delivery, some of them fail to live up to their promise. Barring one brilliant episode named "Adi Sonal", featuring Neena Gupta in her career's best performance, the other short films of this well-intended anthology leave much room for improvement.
The first story "Tap Tap", directed by Praveen Fernandez, has Chunky Panday pulling out all stops to deliver a rousing, if not a great, performance as a has-been music director desperate to make a comeback. Panday, never taken seriously as an actor, doesn't hesitate to look pitiable on screen. It is an honest film with a dishonest, fake-forced ending meant to shock, but sadly missing the target.
"Khauff", directed by Hanish Kalia, is chilling but only until it chooses to not pin down the source of fear. This is an interesting premise of a...
The first story "Tap Tap", directed by Praveen Fernandez, has Chunky Panday pulling out all stops to deliver a rousing, if not a great, performance as a has-been music director desperate to make a comeback. Panday, never taken seriously as an actor, doesn't hesitate to look pitiable on screen. It is an honest film with a dishonest, fake-forced ending meant to shock, but sadly missing the target.
"Khauff", directed by Hanish Kalia, is chilling but only until it chooses to not pin down the source of fear. This is an interesting premise of a...
- 6/1/2019
- GlamSham
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