I still remember those yesteryears when we used to go to movies just because of its music. Thanks to Shankar Ehsan Loy for bringing back the classical music in circulation. This is the second time SEL is treating us with great music, the first time it was in a Marathi movie “Katyar Kaljaat Ghusli”, but this was a different genre of Natya Sangeet. This overstretched web series with some meaningless subplots is made watchable by the purity of its music. If you are a lover of good music, then you just cannot miss this 10 episode long web series.
Apart from sublime music, the web series is mounted on a huge montage of picturesque Jodhpur and its majestic landscape, and the makers have captured the princely Blue city beautifully. I would love to visit this capital of Marwar and enjoys its fabled grandeur. Hats off to cinematographer for simply awesome frames in the series.
The third good thing about the series is its cast and their performances. It’s a great testimony that how a great cast can uplift a below-average script. Veteran Nasiruddin leads the pack in the role of Pandit Radhemohan Rathor, a musical virtuoso, he is simply brilliant. There is absolutely no black sheep in the entire cast, everyone is simply brilliant. Young Ritwik Bhowmik and Shreya Choudhary Jodi will make you fall in love once again, droopy-eyed Sheeba Chadda, handlebar mustache wala Atul Kulkarni, Talented Rajesh Tailang and Amit Mistry have their moments and Kunal Roy Kapur continues from where he left us in Delhi belly.
I only wish the writers were also as vivid as the Jodhpur landscape and the story was as brilliant as its performers. Subplots of a masked performer were as childish as its ill-designed mask and stupid wig. The overstretched plot makes the bandish an extra vilambit bandish which can get to your nerves. But in front of sublime music of SEL sab Kuch maaf, in fact for me SEL and their music is the main hero of the plot.
It was a great irony that I finished watching this musical and the next day heard a great exponent of Hindustani Classical music Pandit Jasraj is no more with us. It was a sad day indeed, as we had hosted Pandit Jasraj in Muscat when he had come for his concert. I was fortunate that Sanjeev Abhyankar and Kedar pandit had stayed with me in Muscat during this concert. RIP Panditji
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