Kaun Banegi Shikharwati Web Review: Na-seer na paiyr!

Kaun Banegi ShikharwatiOn ZEE5Dir Gauravv K Chawla Ananya BannerjeeCast Naseeruddin Shah Lara Dutta Kritika KamraRating 155No is this really a spoof of Squid Games already A series of moronic games play out in this show among four estranged sisters with their equally estranged father setting them up for a domestic battle against each otherThe contestants are mostly dressed in tracksuits of the same colour with stripes on the armrsquos length at least once in light greens as well Thatrsquos an lsquoinspirationrsquo rather too soon after the Korean Netflix series dropped and strangely enthralled the world noWatch VideoThe setting here is supposedly a 200room palace in Rajasthan with God knows how many servants mdash being paid for God knows how mdash that belong to the visiting sisters who wouldrsquove been legit princesses if India wasnrsquot a sovereign republicTheir dad is referred to as the king alright He also thinks of himself as one albeit of a village as it looks like which has about 120 people living in it as we speakThat Irsquom guessing is the greater source for this sendupsatire Although I have to say therersquos something about a spoof on a ldquoroyalrdquo family in general and selfappointed HRHs in particular that no matter what the treatmentstory it feels like a spoof of a spoof anywayHad felt the same for Shashank Ghoshrsquos utterly unwatchable Khubsoorat 2014 with Fawad Khan subcontinentrsquos heartthrob simply walking all over the screen overdressed in expensive suits going from bedbathroom to the living room all throughThis series is a lot easier on the eye The only bit I found funny though is the lsquokingrsquo getting angered by his deputy he calls lsquofriendrsquo because his royal highness didnrsquot like what the deputy was doing when he showed up in his dreamThis dad and the daughters havenrsquot seen each other in years The dad feigns illness to bring them together He sets in motion the lsquoRoyal Gamesrsquo in order to decide who will become the heir or Kaun Banegi Shikharwati to the sprawling propertyWhich given that itrsquos ancestral will get equally divided between the children in any case You donrsquot have to wait until the end for a character to reveal this simple point of law What do you do in the interim mdash that is over ten episodes for whatrsquos presumably only the first season of this seriesWatch the random Roadies or Bigg Boss tasks one after another apparently based on the nine rasas or emotional states of mind mdash veer heroism bhayanak fear hasya laughter etcTrust all this is in the visible interest of mostly overthetop comedy mdash only that Irsquom unable to see anything but more of the same With hardly a goal in sight And the ladies nagginggagging each other in generalBookended with a definite beginning and an end but with no middle you could sleepwatch this over a couple of hours which would perfectly fit an average length feature mdash without labouring through miles of emptiness between Which is also what you could say for the secondrate sequel of Aarya similarly set in Rajasthan that I watched recently Only that was a dark thriller of sortsThis is a much milder lowintensity wholly inoffensive totally pointless show low on ambition and stake with shorter 30minute episodes and beats similar to network televisionYup you could simply zone out before the TV screen even if for over five hours Apparently audiences on average anyway spent four hours daily on regular TV something I learnt from this showrsquos producer the media maven Sameer Nair oncePerhaps and Irsquom thinking hard here the attempt is to somehow adapt the Disney Princess genre for young desi adults In which case Irsquom not the target audience Why was I drawn to it then For an OTT show thatrsquos turning out to be the best hunting ground for fresh untested acting talents the experienced cast here is beyond stellar to begin withA full set of prettypleasant looking perfectly fine Bollywood actors mdash Lara Dutta Soha Ali Khan Kritika Kamra Cyrus Sahukar etc Above all of course Indiarsquos finest Naseeruddin Shah as the king last seen as the Hindustani classical musician in Bandish Bandits along with Raghubir Yadav Panchayat playing the kingrsquos adorable deputyThe latter two deserve a fully renewed career as leads on OTT mdash thatrsquos what else if not Film 20 Naseer in particular is ageing better than the best mdash whatrsquos anyone doing wasting him on a show with no head no tail naseer na paiyr yo

Kaun Banegi Shikharwati Web Review: Na-seer na paiyr!

Kaun Banegi Shikharwati
On: ZEE5
Dir: Gauravv K Chawla, Ananya Bannerjee
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Lara Dutta, Kritika Kamra
Rating: 1.5/5

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Kaun Banegi Shikharwati Web Review: Na-seer na paiyr!

Kaun Banegi ShikharwatiOn: ZEE5Dir: Gauravv K Chawla, Ananya Bannerjee Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Lara Dutta, Kritika KamraRating: 1.5/5

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Kaun Banegi Shikharwati
On: ZEE5
Dir: Gauravv K Chawla, Ananya Bannerjee
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Lara Dutta, Kritika Kamra
Rating: 1.5/5