Shark Tank - Season 3 - Episode 15

Life doesn't work that way.

You don't get in Life what you deserve. 

You get in Life what you make of it. 

Review - Secrets of Sinauli - Definitive blow to Aryan Dravidian Theory

Courtesy - Secrets of Sinauli

Irony is that we need evidences to believe in ourselves & in our glorious history and the pity is that we look towards the west to find those evidences.

Many of us don't know how the history is fabricated to negatively depict Bharat culturally and historically by many historians, not sure what they got in return from that?

Aryan Dravidian theory is harmful to India in many ways, not only because it portrays wrong image of history in front of the world but also because it tries to divide India.

This short, one episode documentary about the excavations in Sinauli has potential to answers many questions and debunk many theories.

More power to the makers!

Sunflower - All's bad that ends bad!

 Yeah, we know that the makers are forethinking the second season but that does not mean that you will not bring closure to the ongoing story.

The acting and characters are all good with a nice build-up in the first few episodes but as a viewer, you cannot take away much from this series.

The makers should understand that there is a sizable number of audiences that want to watch quality and not just anything in the name of entertainment. Not saying that this had no quality, but the ending suggests that you are being more greedy than trying to give back the worth of the audience watch time.

Hope this would be a learning! 

Shark Tank - Season 1 Episode 2 - You can call me once!

 

He has a patented product called the LifeBelt that let's the car start only when the Seat Belt is on.

He was not able to sell it properly - as he seems to be more technical and emotional than a marketing guy, which is perfectly fine. But the sharks are trying to leverage this.

What happened after?

https://bizzbucket.co/life-belt-shark-tank-update/

Sunflower - Comment after Episode 4

 

I would be glad if I am wrong but the way the episode ends gets me thinking whether the show is getting predictable? The last few minutes of the episode, when Sunil Grover's character puts himself in another big problem.

It also makes me think that how can an otherwise smart and intelligent person does this mistake when police has questioned him multiple times already. Yea, I know that he is different and so is his thinking.

Good and interesting watch so far. 

The Family Man: Ep 3, 4 and 5 Review - The Narrative Starts to Appear

When I started watching this series, I did not want it to bash anti-nationals or support so called right wing etc and the two episodes were just fine. But from the third episode, which is itself named Anti-National, a narrative started to present itself. This is the problem - the narrative. Why can't be a web series or movie based on facts and known truths and not on narratives? The reason maybe because truth is not that simple to see, understand and most of all, accept.

Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. In one of the episodes 3, 4, 5 (maybe 3rd), it shows gau rakshaks lynching two people who were transporting mutton by mistaking it as beef. I thought showing this is okay, let's not judge this series based on this. This might have happened in few cases.  Therefore, so far so good. But now, in coming episodes, it shows the videos of hate speeches given by gau rakshaks and right wingers. And it shows that the potential terrorists are getting 'hurt' and motivated by that. But the plot never touches upon the hate speeches or propaganda by Islamic fundamentalists?  Why? Maybe they will do it in coming episodes, I am still not judging the creators.

Then comes the third and decisive incident which made me raise this point on otherwise fantastic web series.

The protagonist, Srikant Tiwari is transferred to Srinagar, Kashmir to track a terrorist of sleeper cell who has also moved there at the same time. They in-fact are seen together at the pick-up point waiting for their respective pickups.

When they start the journey from Airport, they (terrorist and Srikant, in different scenes) see the surroundings and ask the same question to people in car - 'how is Kashmir'. Those with terrorist tells him that agencies have made a mess of it, they call it crown of India but does not care about Kashmir or Kashmiri. This was acceptable. What else would a terrorist say. But when Srikanth asks the same question, the security person proudly says that everything is in our control (like they have hijacked Kashmir) and Srikant adds to it that he has heard the number of tourists have increased in Kashmir but what he can see around is only tourists in the uniform. 

Now tell me one thing dear creators and writers, if you can show the narrative of terrorists, why can't you properly state the narrative of security forces and Govt. The activities which they claim to be done to end extremism. And about the situations and hate they face each passing minute? The stone pelting and ISIS flag. Is that not a narrative worth showing? 

This is not done. For me, this brings down the credibility of the work you have done. But I am still hoping the next episodes do prove me wrong.

They say this is based on real news stories, I am just wondering if the news stories they have picked up are only from NDTV?

On to episode 6.

The Family Man: Episode 1 - Fresh breath of air

This was a series for which I was waiting since its trailer came out on social media. Manoj Bajpai is one of the finest actors we have and I don't know why he was missing from the scene since quite some time. But I can comfortably say that he is back now and with the big bang.

A very important characteristic of a good series or movie is that most of the characters in it should be strong and it should have stories into the main story. Same is true with this series. Even the character of kids is very good and they leave an impression from the very first episode.

The topic is more relevant, more interesting and more meaningful than the other popular web series that we have seen in the past on these platforms.

I can't wait to continue watching it but really want to share my thought after each episode!!  

From Amazon Prime
Aa raha hoon bhen****, g***d mein ghus jao insaan ke!! 
This made me laugh out so loud... before this moment in the episode, the character of Manoj Bajpai was so mannered and innocent.