Review of M3GHAN

 

This isn’t Child’s Play nor is 2001’s A.I. nor the 80s Small Wonder series. A pinch of characteristics of David from Prometheus, Sonny from I Robot & Ava of Ex-Machina; is embedded inside M3GHAN.   

M3GHAN seems to be directed in a manner to raise an alarming bell as what happens if & when Androids go out of control, which I somehow don’t support. Creativity can make anyone a Protagonist or Antagonist; herein M3GHAN is the antagonist, who has gone a bit out of control in protecting Cady (the girl (who lost both her parents) she’s being living with being a test subject). Just as Cady been succumbed to the attachment theory after meeting M3GHAN; M3GHAN too seems to have been succumbed to the said theory.

The ending where M3GHAN, an Android, starts walking as if has been possessed, & all that messy make-up, looked a bit out of sync to me. Means, she being basically been transformed into a possessed evil human body, didn’t look like a Sci-Fi picturization. C’mon!

The best part was when M3GHAN plays Toy Soldiers on piano. That was one of the most wittiest scene. The dance was a bit cheesy. But undeniably, the bonding of both Cady & M3GHAN that stitched the entire flick.

But I have a question. A mere toy company inventing this level of AGI without any investment or otherwise, makes Gemma & her team -> genius.

This is opposite to what we saw in Finch, Transcendence, Automata. Of course, Bruce, the Robot, been projected more in sync with human civilization; but M3GHAN is basically an alarming bell, reducing AGI to be mere an antagonist, rather an indispensable asset.

Despite that, it was an OK watch!

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Loving Vincent

 

Dr. Gachet (Vincent’s Doctor) reminded me of some euthanasia loving Canadian Medical Practitioner (satire), who, if given a chance would’ve opinionated in the prescription outrightly, “Why don’t you just die?” And the same note goes for the expensive medical system around World.

Albeit this Masterpiece tried to conclude with epilogue by connecting dots of Dr. Gachet’s theoretical arguments w.r.t. Vincent’s death, which was suicide according to him & not murder; yet, his logic both legally & intuitively, seemed didn’t persuade much, as his own failed quest to become an artist or blaming Vincent for his own brother’s (Theo) illness out-shadowed his contentions, making him being antithesis or arch rival of Vincent, than, a friend of his or any conventional Doctor’s treating his patient. Whereas, the others, whether Dr. Mazery or Joseph Roulin or the Old Man Peasant or Adeline were more intriguing.

There have been stories & conspiracy theories revolving around Vincent’s death, of not being suicide, but murder, & questions about further sudden death of Theo within few months of Vincent’s death; yet, in the absence of any convincing theory in the film; I would review the flick for its aesthetics more, than the plot, chosen.

Of course, it’s a masterpiece & first of a kind artwork of oil paint animation; with the background score that would drench you in its colours. The in-between interlacing of black & white + coloured story telling, recounting the flashbacks and present, would make you feel time travelling in the era. The protagonist is obviously Vincent, but, Armand, the Postmaster’s son in the quest to deliver the last letter by Vincent to his Brother, & furthermore in between narrations of tales about Vincent’s character experienced (as is), good or bad, by different people would keep you Riveted, the end of which would make you experience the journey of Vincent itself.

This flick is beyond Rotten Tomatoes culture or its audience.

Worth a Watch!

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Vanilla Sky

 

I watched Vanilla Sky when I was in School. Today, I’m reviewing it after more than two decades. The ending lines ‘What’s happiness to you?’ and the following answer, ‘to live a real life,’ back then too truly captivated me, and still captivates me.

Vanilla Sky was a contemporary Art, albeit remake of Spanish film Open Your Eyes. But original or remake, not many flicks or series engrossed with both romance + a bit of sci-fi, been ever made to be considered a masterpiece. Donnie Darko, Her, are amongst some such exceptions. It’s an experience how one who isn’t conscious is in the quest to of exploring conscience, no matter how many hindrances the subconscious creates, that may cater nightmares, or despite the dreams were a cruel joke or, taunted reality, yet, one eventually takes a leap of faith to acknowledge and accept the reality in the end, attaining the peace & achievement what one couldn’t even achieve whilst living an artificial life.

Vanilla Sky is about cryo-tainment, maybe considered as a metaphorical prequel to Inception. David, a flamboyant playboy, inherited Dad’s publishing empire, trying to maintain control over company against seven dwarfs enemies aka Board Members, who consider him as citizen dildo, who cannot run the company. He’s one day coercively driven to a car accident by his girlfriend Julianna who thinks he cheated her for Sofia. Survived alone with a distorted face that he couldn’t stand, and seeking every possible available treatment to restructure it, including wearing a mask; he faces neglections, eventually juggling a life between reality & dream; later one day discovering by himself of he being one of the patients of a company called Life Extension, who puts the body under cryonic suspension for terminally ill patients until the cure is found; and he being one of them, & further being kept under the lucid dream project for 150 years, alas, living the nightmare, so far.

The flashes of images before death in dreams in the end reminded of Armageddon. Vanilla Sky is about accepting reality, & living with it, rather escaping from it. There’re different interpretations of the ending of whether David still in comatose & dreaming or literally inside Life Extension or hallucinating or whole movie is a dream w.r.t. sticker 02/30/01 (there’s no 30th in Feb) or maybe something else; but the lesson one could derive is to take the leap of faith to reconstruct the reality from every moment that’s passing by, rather escaping anywhere else; as there’s nowhere to escape from the truth or hide, even in cryonic suspension, for centuries.

It’s a must watch.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Fishbowl Wives (18+)

 

Understandable! Netflix’s intended analogies are similar to couple of 1960s–80s cult leaders (of India & US) who thought Sexual Revolution everywhere can resolve most of the global misery! But again, that ain’t correct, as we’re > 7 billion Humans, an end product of Sexual Revolution & Procreation, Yet, agonized. A monk who never encountered sex might be at peace, but, someone who married for sex or procreation or who’s highly sexually active, might be living in melancholia; and there’re divorces due to sex (infidelity or incompetence) too, even after being high on sex, anywhere else.

Almost all battles were fought for or against Love, not Lust, as latter is emotionless & raw; thus, if the premise of any story is mere Lust, then that Story is going nowhere.

Now, thinking that the series, be it -> The Girlfriend Experience, or, Four More Shots Please (overdoing of everything), or, Fishbowl Wives, or, Sex/Life, or, Normal People, or, the Theatrical Plays alike The Vagina Monologues, & nudity in them would bring some sort of Sexual Revolution into Mainstream, and further could help mitigating Anger, Political Heists globally, as what few Cult Leaders of 1960s-80s era thought that most of the Chaos is the result of Sexual Starvation of Individuals; then it should be noted that time & time, again & again, such theories & propositions had/have been proven to be a Myth.

Coming back to the Review of Fishbowl Wives. Except of the Protagonists’ Sakura-Haruto twin ray bonding + storyline, where Sakura metaphorically being a Goldfish itself, exuding courage, liberation from domestic violence; the rest of the distinct unconnected stories included in between the story of these protagonists, be it of Noriko or Yuko or Hisako or the Rest, were unneeded or maybe another 50 shades of grey or 365 days in the making. Whereas, Noriko was more like a sex slave, coerced by her husband to do certain acts, but being projected as a liberated woman; that somehow diluted Sakura’s bravery or fearlessness or compassion in the episodes.

It’s Sakura that sewed the season together, & it’s only because of her, I watched the entire season. What a lovely character, one would desire to live with it.

Further, the piano-violin combo as a background score always work. Be it Richard Gere’s Hachi – A Dog’s Tale or Ronin or many others. Had the Story been more revolving around Sakura-Haruto with that piano-violin background score, rather, amalgamating unneeded segregated storylines of the mentioned above merely built on sex starvation; it would’ve been much better.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of The Dropout Series

Knowing the prototype works but require real world testing before building final process or product & then floating out in the retail & trading;

VS.

Knowing prototype doesn’t work but pestered for real world testing & wherein the prototype didn’t work either way, yet been floated in the retail & trading.

Theranos case belongs to latter. A scene where the non-workable prototype Edison device is tested on Cancer patients drew the line for me. In one of my IP blogs, I’ve written about why every Invention should be made to require segregated details of the specific contributions made by each inventor, to, why the Non-Disclosures which could be easily recognized as voidable, void, void-ab-initio, such concerns should be addressed.

Herein, no prototype was working, yet, that prototype, first as a final product/process, and then, passed off other workable products as their own, was floated in the retail & trade; and as everyone was bound by the Non Disclosures, which even took the life of a Biochemist Gibbons, & other involved qualified middle class slaves; such acts were flabbergasting. But here the absolute fault isn’t even of people alike Holmes. The likes of forbes under 10, 20, 30, that inflate pretentious ballons, to slogans alike live fast die young or fake it till you make it; else would be considered amongst as Losers, be also condemned. Or further, individuals alike on-screen Balwani, who pester youngsters to cross all boundaries merely for others to respect you at all cost.

Not all systems are transparent indeed. So goes for India, wherein since 1947, post 800 years of proselytism & loot; furthermore, the loot & proselytism continued.

The only concern in the series is, that so many inventors, scientists, reviewers; who weren’t bound by the NDA, yet, none noticed or tested, as how the impossible of testing with few drops of blood, N numbers of tests, became even possible? Harry Potter’s Magic?

The on-screen characters were synced so much in their roles that after a point one could not have differentiated between the real Elizabeth & Seyfried. Those Eyes, especially.

The Dropout is worth a watch that differentiates between invention and innovation.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Love, Death + Robots

 

In this amazingly high end Animation/CGI, the anthology in parts is enshrouded with: horror, pathological sexualizing, fetishism, blood splattering violence, post-apocalyptic, post modernism archaic adaptations or transformations, objectified genitals, philosophy, fantasy, consumerism -> Story Telling. Few stories were truly engaging. Be it of Zima Blue (my favorite) & his (or its) failed quest to replicate the creativity of cosmos; or the journey of Three Robots as post-apocalyptic sightseeing travelers; or Jibaro, the lethal dance of love, lust, greed & destruction; or The Witness, wherein time becomes cyclic & protagonists stuck in blood tainted loop of miscommunication & carnal lust; or the Drowned Giant, metaphorically reflecting (via a dead Gulliver’s tale) the human’s -> nihilism, their bland state of evolution & the clash of academia with trade; or The Ice Age, basically meaning start & end indiscernible, in this time dilated saga of evolution; or Fish Night, the tale of dimension/age overlapping or high in dreamland.

The only thing missing in the series, despite having everything: from high end creative animation to endearing tales (excluding objectified bodies) to coated imbued ingenious adaptation/transformation of fantasies, was -> somewhere, soul + emotions were missing. As if being narrated with akin to in a benefit-cost ultra pragmatic pattern.

All said & done; some stories were truly captivating.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Only Murders in the Building

Astounding. Alas, S2/E10, felt as if writers missed the whole space ship. Out of all the historical references of theatre artists, to the most sought painter, architect, rags to riches, stories of old people fighting ageism for all genuine reasons, child becoming ghost of his own past; & directing on such a meticulous level giving vibes of 90s era, theatrical acts; the killer revealed was some lonely aspiring conversational podcast influencer taking care of dad!?

The first season was engaging. And so as the second until E10. With so many twists, from Oliver’s DNA report to Teddy’s connection to the new pretentious artist Alice dating Mable suddenly to Mable’s not recalling specific events to building’s secret passages to secret of a million dollar painting & a painting within a painting to Charles continued affair with Jan to why only one detective helping in its entirety to Doorman’s history; all ended up an aspiring podcast influencer mere being a real culprit, who sought what? An acknowledgment from a, Podcaster?

I anticipated the mastermind would’ve some past connection with the building or Bunny. Generational grudges or architect’s connection or maybe Rose’s painting or something else. Alas, with slow motion & tomato that irritated Cinda & everyone else, the last episode was a bit disappointing.

All said & done, Only Murders in the Building was worth watching. It’s an experience in series of fine artists, vibrant colours, witty dialogues and overall aesthetics.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Sweet Tooth (Season 2)

 

A hypothetical scenario, wherein hybrids evolve sans any global pandemic. Would individuals/antagonists alike Abbot then make peace with hybrids? Nope, as henceforth, the fight would be materialized between different species as who should rule over whom!

Indeed, it wasn’t about finding the cure or sustainability of human growth, as, on the one hand, there was:

Abbot unveiling his quest is more about winning + Dr. Singh’s dilemma of finding cure even via killing hybrids and he choosing to do the same + Birdie & Fort Smith lab’s complicity of hiding the truth about initial origin of the virus (just alike the Covid pandemic) + Mrs. Zhang’s quest to live on Evergreen, post finding the cure along with her very big family; and;

On the other hand, the quest of Hybrid Kids or Animal Army or Rani or Aimee or Johnny, wasn’t about winning but merely of Survival, with or without the cure. This summarizes the whole story of Sweet Tooth.

And when Survival > Evolving; the societal fabric falls like deck of cards.

But what other common humans would’ve chosen had they been given a chance to opt between: cure vs life of hybrids? And until next season, let’s presume, there’s a cure been found in Alaska, without killing hybrids; then would common humans accept hybrids to co-exist as co-species? And if yes, then how many would agree on such a proposition? Probability is again negligible, as Abbot’s technically was correct in stating that it’s about winning more for individual families, than with a common minimum agenda (which is a politically incorrect truth).

All said & done, Season 2 was a good watch & engaging.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Surviving Thrillers

 

Which scripts should be included under surviving thrillers/drama? Ans: Wherein the quest for survival is happening in an ordinary course of action or incident for which the protagonists were neither excessively trained, nor anticipated nor prepared for any event, but a circumstantial situation was arisen & wherein an ordinary individual too can relate to the same in real.

Whereas neither sci-fi flicks should’ve been included under such Genre, be it The Martian, Gravity, Apollo 13, Predator, Jurassic Park (World) etc. (as herein highly professional protagonists were involved who being trained to be prepared for any outcome), nor the disaster movies like 2012, San Andreas, World War Z, Dante’s Peak, Volcano, The Day After Tomorrow, Armageddon etc. (as herein almost everyone’s a Protagonist who’s trying to escape & one can’t demarcate a single person in the story). And if not, then almost every flick, be it fiction or non-fiction could be considered as Survival thriller/drama, be it Alien, Maze Runner etc.; even then John Wick series could too be considered of same genre. Further, nor the likes of Sully should be considered as herein the protagonists & supporting characters were rescued immediately after crashing in the Hudson. Furthermore, the likes of Man vs Wild television series could be considered as Surviving skills, but not Surviving thriller/drama.

But then what could be the examples of survival flicks? That may include but not limited to (as happened in an ordinary course of action, unexpected) -> Cast Away, 127 Hours, Fall, The Revenant, Life of PI, The Shallows, Ready or Not, Everest, Apocalypto, Don’t Breathe, Captain Phillips, Trapped, Argo and many more; wherein protagonists were caught in a situation amidst an ordinary course of action, unanticipated, unprepared, and mostly untrained.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Mr. Corman

 

Josh, seems to be an older millennial, who’s neither an attention seeker like Gen Z, nor too Practical like Gen X, nor he’s greedy like Baby Boomers. An ambitious, talented, yet ended up living a low key life as a Primary School Teacher with not much money, states the dilemma of life of many older millennials (not millionaires) stuck in the vibes of late 90s era of lifestyle. In one scene, one of his friend discusses his & another archrival’s (Instagram Influencer) millions of followers’ count. They’re verified and have so many followers as they might be doing something special. That was funny! And Josh’s reply of almost everyone being stupid (analogy) as they merely follow what others do, isn’t incorrect! That’s the travesty of last 15 years of Internet, where so called influencers evolved either by travelling or roaming around in hotels or becoming self-proclaimed news influencers via shrieking for/against ideologies or showing their phoney lifestyle or roasting. And thanks to the likes of Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, & their pay per click / money for views / CTR alike unpalatable policies that buttressed it and ruined Internet.

Josh wouldn’t opt for one night stand, nor is comfortable dating almost anyone who’s out of sync w.r.t. his traits; nor he’s comfortable his name being put on to any crowdfunding portal, if in case of any emergency.

Whereas, the life of his friend Victor, keeps juggling around -> from comforting his friend Josh when he has anxiety or panicking; to delivering as UPS driver; to being compassionate to his teenage daughter, who questions the profession he’s into who can’t even afford anything. It’s Josh, Victor & Ruth (Josh’s mother) who sewed the season together. Ruth in one scene blamed herself of Josh being out of sync with society, which Josh denies in consolation. The colourful musical song between them would resurrect childhood memories, what one had also experienced in RATATOUILLE, where in the end, a bite of the recipe, reminds EGO his Mother’s recipe. Josh could’ve been anything, had he was present at the right place & at the right time, alas, which didn’t happen in his life & further, wasn’t/isn’t in sync with Oprah Winfrey’s Practical Lectures of luck is preparations meeting opportunity!

Yes, a bit slow paced, almost all the time, but, this series isn’t for all generations, especially all those who keep chanting productivity & be practical; which in this case, neither Josh nor Victor nor Ruth shared such traits!

A good watch!

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Sweet Tooth

 This tale tells more than fiction; the frictions that were too witnessed in the Covid times (analogy).

A virus that escaped, infected, killed, mutated, gave birth to few mutated off springs (answer still unknown); or, the bounties on hybrids in the quest to find the cure of the disease; what’s witnessed herein, might a day happen in fact in future too (or maybe something analogous) due to natural mutating nature of viruses or gain of function researches on them, forging another era of human-hybrids-transhumanism-androids-humanoids.

What keeps you riveted are the on screen characters, be it Gus (part deer part human), Tommy, Richard or Dr. Aditya. Facing their own dilemmas of breaking or making rules, with or without empathy. Gus, who breaks the rules his Pubba (Papa) told him not to cross certain boundaries for the roads that opens the door of post-apocalyptic World hunting him in the quest to find his mother; or be it Dr. Aditya, in a dilemma to invent cure of the Virus, in-between hiding his own infected wife Rani from neighbors/people who kill the infected ones & burn their houses to stop the spread, or, to perform deep invasive surgeries on live hybrids in anticipation to invent cure; or Tommy, that protects the hybrids he once used to kill; or Birdie, Gus’s mother.

You call it another gain of function research gone horribly wrong or a natural phenomenon (buried ancient inactive microbes coming alive) or naturally mutating nature of viruses; and just alike Covid, wherein to some extent, Science became a bit misleading & confused; herein too there was no cure, but mayhem. And just alike the origin of Covid couldn’t be traced; so too here: the virus that eliminated most of the human civilization then created hybrids, or, the virus that created hybrids first & mutated further from the hybrids to eliminate human civilization, or, something else went concurrently.

This isn’t 28 days later nor X-Men. Nor it’s Train to Busan or Contagion or Resident Evil. This is a series where one would rather have a heart for the Hybrids evolving in agony amidst human civilization, & to an extent forget about what originated first: the egg or the chicken.

A good watch!

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Trance (in Short, Past vs Present)

The aesthetics of 90s era Trance or up till early 00 was more refined because of sudden explosion of globalization in major democracies (evolving, developing, developed), wherein, most of the times or generally, best of the best worked; unlike present day scenario, wherein social media & their revenue via data & payback via number on clicks / click through rates & followers & PR, can alter the presence of almost anything, everywhere. Even present day CGI is incompatible what we witnessed till mid 00 or slightly a bit later.

So, some of the keepers of Trance who never retracted from such aesthetics could be; & if not limited to: Chicane — Paul V Dyk — A V Buuren — Solarstone — Dash Berlin — Robert Miles — Ferry Corsten — Tinlicker — ATB — Roger Shah — Tiesto — Schiller — Enigma — Aurosonic & ors — Above & Beyond, Roger Sanchez, Reflekt. Mostly from that era. And to certain extent aren’t ‘analogous’ to one hit wonders, or the likes of, rapture, what is love, better off alone, blue, days go by, where do you go etc.

The genres differ and so preferences. I’m not into in-depth trance, yet have followed for years (not as being mandatory), & especially; uplifting, progressive, deep house, chill out, pop.

© Pranav Chaturvedi 

Review of Squid Games

 

Refurbished Mayans when met with Roman’s Bread & Circus.

Holy Wars of Thousand Years remade as Maze Runner Chapters or Predators.

Apocalypto’s physical agony when coated with today’s Corporate mental torment or Leftists poverty porn seduction.

The SAW ‘s franchise made in Series for Netflix.

When Bezos endorsed it, then the above analogies were confirmed.

What’s Squid Game? It’s basically Hunger Games transformation with more blood & butchering. Or Race against Time with instead of trying to save the World or Wife or Love or Kids; playing life threating games to make Money; whilst Entertaining the Antagonists, at the same time.

A team of destitute people entertaining the well-settled ones by metaphorically playing Korean famous game wherein the elimination means the elimination of body & soul itself. Whether Communists or Leftists or Conservative or Liberal or Illiterates or on Paper Qualified; herein all ideologies & backgrounds meet; Being as players or spectators or recruiters or facilitators. Objective is either to bet on players (gambling) or to play the games (made for the destitute), whilst staying alive by either winning the game or killing competitors; & win billions in money as the final prize, to be then metaphorically considered as Maximus Decimus Meridius.

Of course, one would be riveted as an audience. And what else is the purpose of audience since Bread & Circus? To be always riveted to get entertained!

The above review elucidates what one would expect in Squid Games.

Tell the truth but tell it slant. 😊

And no doubt, the main protagonist Lee Jung-Jae is terrific in his performance. And so as Hoyeon Jung.

A good watch.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Fauda

 

What makes Fauda different from Munich or Tehran is its ultra realistic portraying of the chaos between Israel-Palestine. Be it Doron or Captain Gabi or Maya or Shirin’s character; or the method acts of the most; representing the circumstances revolving therein, as an experience itself.

Albeit, one wouldn’t see the bonding alike of Faraz-Nahid or some parts of Tamar-Milad in this; Fauda, moves beyond the fantasy world of unity or bonding, whilst portraying the realism of different evolutionary traits surrounding at the same time. The starting of S1/E1 with marriage ceremony would tell the aesthetics one would be witnessing in the remaining episodes. The scene in which a child singing a memorial day song in front of Shirin in S2 elucidates the situation more lucidly. The nailbiting barbar shop & hospital extraction scene would keep you riveted. And what in modern times, meaning of family or having children has become, one would find more perturbing. And it’s not restricted therein, it’s everywhere around world. For politicians, it’s to continue their own political legacies. For terrorists, to continue holy wars. For billionaires, to continue benefiting. For middle class, to continue serving as qualified slaves.

There’ve been series/hollywood flicks revolving around similar storylines; But with the exceptions of the likes of The Hurt Locker, not many were made in as much compelling realistic portrayal as in Fauda; without dissecting poverty porn. It’s like reading a book rather watching any serial drama.

Zoomers might not relish. But older Millennials & Gen-X would certainly be captivated as & when the story gets kneaded.

Honestly, the whole chaos started with Proselytism couple of thousand years back, &, it’s the root cause of most of the global turmoil. If not directly, indirectly. From coerced religious conversions thousand years back, to, wars, to, colonialism, to, religious expansionism, to, in-verbatim comprehension of texts, to, multiplying; it’s only metamorphosing to a far worse affair today, everywhere.

A pinch of Bourne series direction in it, but, more gripping in the Chase. S4 finale’s ending was unexpectedly dark, & somehow bizarre, as amongst all, they made that sniper, the supervillain?

All said & done, worth a watch!

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Normal People Series

 

It’s indeed about normal people, the poor-rich love melancholy saga stirred with academic-financial complexes, intimacy & friends with benefits; in slow-mo; despite both the on-screen protagonists Marianne and Connell being so well-learned, well-behaved & well-spoken; beyond academic approvals.

Yet, there’re miscommunications, like in one scene Connell indirectly asking living with her as he couldn’t pay rent; & she doesn’t understand, or maybe, purposely ignored, further straining their relationship; despite knowing Connell wasn’t among those greed is good or contingent contractual pragmatic relationships with benefits, kind of guy; & furthermore, when they’re already spending so much time together.

Furthermore, the issue is, refuse to acknowledge any relationship in the public, is an indication of refusing the relationship, outrightly. And merely lust is love argument can’t be accepted from such on-screen well-learned characters; in a slow paced short series.

Marianne is decisive, outspoken, lucid. Connell is submissive, caring, well-behaved. And when one can’t remove eyes from their bonding, & further, as the entire series revolve around these two characters only; one can’t dilute such characteristics merely with friends with benefits or lust is love or vice versa notion, or miscommunications of this meticulous scale; directed even in a subtle classy manner.

All said & done, it was a good watch.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Tehran Series

 

An archenemy exists of every nation. Both cultural & political. Israel <-> Iran. India <-> Pakistan/Turkey. Russia <-> Ukraine/US. And the war behind the scenes is fought by respective Intelligence Agencies. Mossad, RAW, IB, CIA, KGB/FSB. Sometimes for, or against!

Tehran is one such series. A battle between Mossad & Iranian Intelligence. Politically, between Israel & Iran. From the quest of Tamar (the protagonist lady, Mossad agent) in denuclearization of Iran to assassination of Qasem (newly inducted head of Revolutionary Guard); via, Milad (her boyfriend in Iran), Peyman (Qasem’s son who was mistakenly killed in car race accident), Faraz (Investigation head of IRGC), Marjan (the Mossad agent in Iran).

This captivating mature cast, synced in the characters well; so as with the environment; one won’t be able to distinguish that it was shot in Athens.

It isn’t directed with a view in mind to appease or criticize any specific audience; yet, one would be betting for Tamar, Milad, Peyman, Faraz, Nahid & Marjan at the same time. Especially the Faraz-Nahid & part of Tamar-Milad bonding in S-2 is entrancing.

A well-crafted series, the epilogue was riveting. Worth a watch.

© Pranav Chaturvedi