Reema Kagti & Zoya Akhtar are giving a whole new reason to watch their content!

In her movie “Talaash”, she created a victim who hoped for justice, refreshingly devoid of self pity and the conventional raging vengeance, a dead character that intricately delved into human emotions, and contrasted this with a police officer, who, on the other hand was merely passing by a hopeless life. But, a couple of hours was too unfair to these characters, who we’d want to spend more time with.
Writer-director, Reema Kagti recently spoke of how a web series gives her the welcoming air time, space and freedom to build characters, and what remarkable pieces she did come up with in “Made in Heaven”, her co-created venture with 4 other directors, including her co-writer Zoya Akhtar. Couldn’t get enough of all the drama the 9 episodes (and gladly a complete 9 hours) brought in, with some meticulously thought about and well written characters.
What new could they have spoken of Indian weddings that others have previously not, it’s the idea of using each individual wedding setting for building the psyche of their characters. Intertwined with modern day Indian wedding societal drama, the script episodically uncovers the layers of the leads, like peeling off their skin, exposing the depth of human vulnerabilities (Faiza), dark spaces (Tara) and unspoken silences (Karan). The other lead, Adil, will leave you as clueless as he has been projected in the series. He puts his head down only once on the show, on being questioned “what he actually wants”, mockery of the business tycoon his character is. Tara, an otherwise sophisticated and neat freak is frequently seen overdoing her lipstick, and you’d wonder what the writers are hinting at, until of course the story subtly reveals that. Faiza, who is cheating her best friend, still convincingly chooses to address and believe her as her best friend. There were others too who, in spite of not getting much air time, were portrayed as comprehensively using other tools. A transforming dressing style constructing the flavor of ambition in “Jazz”, while “Kabir”, the videographer, who was practically given no dialogue, spoke the most about the underlying theme of each wedding through his video blogs.
What Reema and Zoya have smartly done is created some wonderful flawed characters that mirror real people around us, with that big difference of leaving us with no scope or even want of judging them, that one could otherwise be tempted to in real life. This is a must watch for those who love Drama. Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar are giving me a whole new reason to watch their flicks – their characters, and looking forward to more mentally stimulating content from them.