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(Not a Spoiler Free Review) It was engaging at first as the story arch and characters were quite riveting. Then somewhere in the middle of the season towards the finale, between the chase and capture scenes, it turns out to be pretty much not that epic as the show claims to be. So many overcomplication dramatic things are in this show just so that the creaters could showcase it as "fresh", when it's the same old 'good vs evil' storyline. The "evil" felt their motives were totally justified even if the action bought forth were just plain cruel. Whereas, the "good" part feels so underwhelming, that even actress' acting prowess can't save it. Maybe the show creators trying to save "the road to heroic" or "change in personality" storyline for their upcoming seasons... So overall it is not that bad except the finale that left a bad aftertaste. Season 2 doesn't seem that much promising after watching quite weak potrayal of a heroine all throughout the series. We get it, you are typical hero who don't want to be a hero but had to do it because the world is depending on you now🙄 but the "heroic" thing she did in the end is nothing but a waste of time! Don't get me started on the so obvious hints on "friends or lovers" trope scattering throughout this season and on all the nickels that could make anyone filthy rich hearing the characters throwing "Saint" around, like people never heard of God or Lord in this bizarre, copied magical (yet not magical) realm. God, it was unneccessarily exhausting. And the other characters... They were forgettable yet so cliche at the same time that I cannot recall what are their main purpose in this epic (but not epic) show. Of course, with so many social awareness in the world, & Netflix being a Champ in claiming they are in support of every social issues in US, this particular Netfix production have multiracial actors (basically the majorities of races/ethnicity subscribing to their streaming service) but that's about it... And I detest the way the creators of the show splitting hairs on every single terms.. Well no wonder, Fjerdans are always trying to kill these "not magic but small science" practitioner, the Grishas. I bet it's confusing for them too.😅🤣 Potato patato, it seems to me Grishas are nothing but witches & wizards. Why twist things when it's not that relevant anyways? So that they can claim it as an original idea? I just can't with this show... P.S: I wanted to give one star but ended up giving two because of Ben Barnes and Zoë Wanamaker (What can I say, I'm a Potterhead & Prince Caspian is my favourite fellow Narnian). It was nice to know that they were not, you know... dead.

I'm just excited to watch this show every day, waiting to find out what's gonna happen next! So I'm good! I've been watching Beyhadh since the first season which was clearly the popular one. I loved it too but just for Jennifer Winget's sole performance, to be honest. The former cast were great but at times I hated each one of them except the obvious 'villain' of the show. I feel like Maya, the protoganist of the story, was thoroughly misunderstood and driven to the path of destructions by everyone at one point or another. So in the second season, with the casts showing off their acting chops and Jennifer's powerful performance as usual this season promises more excitement and more enigmatic episodes. Despite the mystery surrounding each characters aren't exactly revealed completely, I'm not complaining. Because like 'Maya' says, This is just the beginning... For a brand new series I just want to watch how the storyline do unfolds!

Watch this if you wish to escape your life which you might describe as mundane, boring & reality bites! The first time I watched it with a friend during my senior year at college, I got a huge Gossip Girl series vibe. Whether Gossip Girl inspired this movie, it's storyline, characters and atmosphere, it's not my call to decide but yeah... I do think it is. The acting was good but that's about it... There's not much of depth to the characters that binds the whole movie to be extremely engaging as the main casts felt as shallow & cliché as they can be. Makes you wonder the logical sides of their character & the background story. Maybe I'm prejudiced as I've grown watching Gossip girl, the OC, One Three Hills, Camp Rock & the HSMs! So it was mundane & mediocre for me. Yet, the movie is kind of fun with the music score, the dosti yaari thing, and the branded clothes... It's one time watch for people like me but it's so not for moviegoers who wants 'more' because that's the farthest SOTY - the first can get you! Wait till you see SOTY2🤣

Watch it over & over again when I was a little girl. The soundtracks are gold! The kind of music you can't get these days. The chemistry between the leads was charming. Jackie Shroff did his role really well in so many parts. Subash Ghai could have pulled this off yet there are so many flaws you can't overlook. The story. Wikipedia says it's inspired by Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Say what? There's no link whatsoever except the poor & rich status parts where the rich relatives belittles the poor girl's father. The logic. There's a concept of poor & rich in the movie which blows my mind in a wrong way. The rich NRIs are shown as billionaires in abroad having the same fortune as Trump those days. Okay, I'll buy that. But the poor ones. Isha & her family owns a house in India and abroad where they are wearing designer clothings be it Indian traditional dresses or for normal wears. Most of them have jobs or it's better to say they all have qualifications to get a high paid jobs. Somehow we supposed to believe they are poor at abroad. Poor enough for Ronit's family to look down to them even if they all were good old friends. The acting. The actors got too excited and gave an over enthusiastic performance that made the scenes looks & feels fake. From the heroin crying so falsely that I could still feel the shivering of cringeness over me. And to the hero's over zealous acting. He was hot but that's about it. The hero was just an eye candy and he may have tried his best. But he obviously wasn't so good in grasping the right amount of emotions and at the right moment at the early stage of his career. And the others. It's best not speak about it. I mean you could have hired better actors who could actually act with that amount of budget. The Bollywoodness. I swear, it's the same cheezy romantic story tagline that every movie has until to date. Girl meets boy. They fall in love. Then got some high voltage unnecessary drama. And at the ending, somehow it got worse or get solved where they either live happily until the end credits or end up dead. Boring. Conclusion. I kind of get it why this movie flunked so bad.