Anamika Anand (Madhuri Dixit) is a Bollywood star. She has an ideal life. Or does she? Do her loving husband, two pretty youngsters, well-staffed luxe home, and a high-profile movie with one in all her favourite co-stars, add as much as lower than the sum of her many glamorous elements? ‘The Fame Game’, Dixit’s first internet sequence, opens with a glittering awards perform the place her character makes a starry look. And then she disappears. Where has she gone? And why did she go? Cops crawl round, a lot commotion ensues, conspiracy theories are afloat, and the thriller deepens.
The eight-part season one in all ‘The Fame Game’ goes forwards and backwards in time, as we get to know extra in regards to the individuals in Anamika’s life: partner Nikhil More (Sanjay Kapoor) is a bankrupt producer, mom (Suhasini Mulay) likes to gamble with a stacked deck, son (Lakshvir Saran) has no thought who he’s, and all daughter Amara desires is to be is her mom. ‘Woh Anamika Anand Banna Chahti Hai’. Superstar Manish Khanna (Manval Kaul) shares a sophisticated historical past with Anamika, and retains ducking his demons, at the same time as he tries circling again to her. Amongst the cops assigned to the case is a lady coping with private points (Rajshri Deshpande), and who has no time for filmi shenanigans.
The bother with this ‘Who Is Anamika? Where is She?’ recreation is that it’s neither contemporary sufficient, nor attention-grabbing sufficient to maintain us with it. It is awash with tropes. The happy-on-surface star with a brilliant bold mom, the husband who takes benefit of the golden goose, the troubled youngsters who do not fairly know what they need: we have seen variations of those themes in numerous movies.
The temptation to backlight Madhuri Dixit to make her glow like a goddess, is irresistible. But she is such a great actress that every one that show of perfection on display should not have mattered; right here she is constrained by the banal method she has been written. That’s the difficulty with the writing total, and it impacts the complete solid, which incorporates such abilities as Mulay, Kapoor, Kaul, Deshpande and a clutch of newbies. And the so-called thriller is nothing of the kind: in the best way sure characters are launched, who look like random however are clearly not, we all know how they could join with the girl who has vanished. The plot develops holes, too: a loss of life mid-way, and it is not touched upon afterward. Hello?
A few sharply written scenes inform you how the entire thing might have been. How Anamika makes quick shrift of a cocky youthful actress offers us a glimpse of the steeliness inside all that gorgeousness: you do not get to be on prime for 3 a long time and extra with out creating sturdy self-preservation instincts. In one other scene, Anamika skewers a seedy financier. How shut are these items to actual life? These are the type of tantalizing, teasing tendrils that I wished extra of: Dixit was all the time greater than the dhak dhak woman, that unlucky sobriquet which by no means left her, and right here she exhibits how it’s carried out.
So sure, fame is just not all the things it’s cracked as much as be, and sure, there are numerous ugly sides to it; the fixed stress to maintain up a face in private and non-private can sap even probably the most beloved celebrities. Only within the last episode does the sequence look as if it’ll get away in a wholly sudden path. Even the shiniest lodestars have points that they’re chary of sharing. Will the second season present us that face behind the face? With Madhuri Dixit round, that’s the least we will count on.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
