The good bits (Manoj Bajpayee’s acting, dysfunctional family plot, depiction of Hindu-Muslim endemic tensions, beef lynchings) are pretty good, and the bad parts are pretty bad (terrible depiction of tech, pretty bad dialogue, though Bajpayee redeems his bits)
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Correction: It’s Prime The action scenes are pretty amateurishly done. Clearly low budget. The support cast acting is terrible. Plotting is pretty taut though.
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Replying to @vgr
Bro watch sacred games. It’s probably not very good but it’s fun for the novelty. It’s on Netflix.
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Replying to @ankurrsharma
Watched 1 episode, didn’t like it. Not a fan of Saif Ali Khan, worth persevering?
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He’s the worst part of the show for sure. It’s weird, I would never watch it if there were more contemporary drama shows in Hindi, but because of the sheer novelty, that saw the whole thing. In any other world, the writing is extremely uneven
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Replying to @ankurrsharma
I think the dialogue writers of these shows are pretty lousy... they seem to think throwing in a lot of gaalis makes it authentic, but then mess up fairly simple shit like throwing in doordarshan-Hindi words into what should be Urdu etc.
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Replying to @vgr
The problem the source material is actually in English and they’re doing some kind of reverse translation back into Hindi. They got Anurag Kashyap to direct so the swearing feels partially inspired by gangs of Wasseypur which he wrote and directed
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Replying to @ankurrsharma @vgr
Even gangs had the issue that the writing was uneven and the second movie especially tapered off like the writers shouldn’t hold their attention to finish it. Still, the gaali aesthetic was better suited for the UP setting.
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Replying to @ankurrsharma
I really liked udaan, which was Kashyap’s Jamshedpur movie
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Replying to @vgr
Try gangs. I don’t know how it holds up since I saw it in college but it was the first time I thought ok there’s some potential in this direction
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Yeah, it’s been on my list
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