Web Series: show time
artist: Emraan Hashmi, Mahima Makwana, Mouni Roy, Rajeev Khandelwal, Shriya Saran, Vishal Vashishtha, Vijay Raaz, Naseeruddin Shah
director: Archit Kumar
OTT Platform: disney plus hotstar
OTT Web Series: ‘Showtime’, a web series based on nepotism, is streaming on the OTT platform. The interesting thing is that those who are being trolled for promoting nepotism. Karan Johar has made this web series. Yes, this web series has been produced under the banner of his production house. In this web series, Karan has tried to highlight not only nepotism but also the lifestyle of celebs, box office numbers and the dirty politics happening behind the scenes. Now the question arises whether he has been successful in presenting this dirty game played in Bollywood correctly? Read our review.
Such is the story of the web series
Film mogul Victor Khanna (Naseeruddin Shah), known as the “Godfather of Romance”, is at odds with his arrogant son Raghu Khanna (Emraan Hashmi). While in Victor Khanna’s films the emphasis was on story, Raghu focuses on box office collection rather than content. In such a situation, to save the image of his production house, Victor Khanna names his production house in the name of young journalist Mahika Nandi (Mahima Makwana). Mahika takes over the running of Victor Studio and Raghu starts his own studio. After this, new characters come and go in the story and the real exploits of this world which looks beautiful from outside start coming to light.
amazing dialogues
‘Watch the film for 2 hours and watch it’, ‘Films are made only for money’, ‘Will my fans come to the theater to watch the story of your film or my face’… there are many such funny dialogues in the web series. These are not just dialogues, this is the bitter truth of the Hindi film industry. Through these dialogues, an attempt has been made to show how producers make money-making films instead of making films with good stories. As a cinema lover, we have seen many such films in the last few years whose story had no substance, but the box office figures were skyrocketing, hence these dialogues work to keep us connected to the series.
Who is ahead and who is behind in acting?
Mahima Makwana and Rajeev Khandelwal have done amazing work in this web series which shows the conspiracies and politics of the film industry. Both the outsiders have given their entire lives in this web series on nepotism. Emraan Hashmi has also done a decent job. However, Mouni Roy, Shriya Saran, Vijay Raaz and Naseeruddin Shah could not show that much magic. Vijay Raj and Naseeruddin Shah are good actors, but failed to leave their mark in this web series.
There is no point in the story
The topic is good, Karan Johar’s attempt to improve his image is good, the actors are good and the dialogues are also good but…the story is not good. The writer himself got lost while trying to expose the conspiracies happening in Bollywood. In order to include all the big scandals in the web series, they could not present even a single scandal properly.
See it or not?
Every person who spends money to watch a film should watch this web series. They should do this not to entertain themselves but to know what kind of game is played behind making a film or in other words to get money out of your pocket.