It has been a lackadaisical summer for entertainment. Look at some of the most heavily advertised films and shows.
Shoojit Sircar’s Gulabo Sitabo, released on Amazon Prime Video last week, is disappointing. The story seems secondary to the setting. It is as if somebody loved the crumbling Fatima Manzil in Lucknow and wanted to set a story there; the rest didn’t matter.
Anurag Kashyap’s Choked on the other hand has a superb idea; a lower middle class family’s emotional upheaval against the background of demonetisation with a bank teller as the protagonist. But it moved too slowly and lost me somewhere.
Paatal Lok
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