Remember Satyamev Jayate? Yes, the same TV show that had Aamir Khan crying at the drop of a hat? Now, imagine the same set of issues woven in a story and voila you have Made in Heaven creared by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti. Gay rights? check; Child abuse? check; Drugs? Check; Depression? Check? Basically all the issues that Satyamev Jayate covered is here in form of a wedding story. The makers of Made in Heaven would do a big favour if they It would not be wrong if the makers of Made in Heaven should thank Aamir Khan before every episode.
Ever since Indian language content creators discoverd web as a platform to show their creativity we have been inundated with series showing explicit sex sequences both hetro and gay, using choicest of abuses (F not A is the first alphabet) and the female actors love to smoke. So how different is Made in Heaven on Amazon Prime?
The lead characters Tara and Karan in the serial look cute together. Since the guy is playing a gay character, there is nothing going on between them except friendship. There will be no romantic angle between the two is quite evident from the beginning.
The serial has a huge dose of flashbacks. The wedding planners in eight episodes of first season solve a new problem in every episode while dealing with their personal ones. The weddings in the episode are not linked to each other and so we see different styles in the eight episodes.
In short, Made in Heaven is a big budget production. There is every possible wedding that you can think of. A Punjabi, Rajasthani and osld haveli too thrown in just to make it look cool. In the midst of all this are characters dealing with Section 377 of IPC, husband cheating, drug addict brother and lots of sex with random people.
So what is my problem with Made in Heaven? Well, its nothing and everything that is wrong with web series content. The Indian script writers cannot think beyond selling sex in any form. Its just that the web series platform allowes them to ignore the Censor Board and this is where the content for web series begins and ends.
I am still waiting for Indian web series creator to come up with something like The Marvelous Mrs Maisel where script works over everything else. Or even Breathe which was such a refreshing watch. The second season with Abhishek Bachchan as the lead replacing R Madhawan is being shot. Lets wait and see if Junior B can make it better than Madhawan.
Sadly the creators of Made in Heaven and so many others are using this opportunity to create good content, see this as platform to escape from the Censor board scissors. Somehow, I get the feeling that what Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar were trying to show their middle finger to the Censor Board.
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