MADE IN HEAVEN

MADE IN HEAVEN

A balanced recipe of drama, action, sleaze, scandal, relations, love, sex and lot of marriages!!

A PERFECTLY BLENDED DRAMA

Bollywood seems to have hit the sweet spot with this one. A perfect and balanced recipe of drama, action, sleaze, scandal, relationships, love, sex and off course a lot of Indian marriages!  But the criticality is in always maintaining the right proportion and balance. Not overdoing any of the elements, and spoiling the taste of the individual components. That’s where Made In Heaven has hit the G spot, I must say!

It may appear to have a formulaic backdrop of crazy Indian marriages a la Karan Johar style. But it  has been spiced up with lot of bold scenes and scandals,  and sprinkled with a judicious dose of social issues. Nevertheless it's  done with so much elegance and nuanced storytelling, that it leaves you breathless and makes you immediately hit the next episode button. The narrative is fast paced, always progressing at a constant speed. Doesn’t loose grip at any point.

Tara Khanna & Karan Mehra

The lives of of six characters, their struggles, their compulsions, aspirations, weaknesses and how they eventually come to terms with it; and make peace with it, is worth a watch, no doubt. 

The backdrop of the superrich Delhi circle and their ways of splurging the wealth on marriages  with the pomp and show is very amusing and at times vulgar. But Made in Heaven is just not about it. It goes to a much deeper level. It scratches all the layers and makes them bare in front of you. Be it the royal family  and its  dirty deeds or be it the political family masquerading their political alliance as marriage. The opposition to late marriage of a widowed mother by her own children is as heart wrenching as  the bride walking away from her marriage due to dowry demand by an IAS groom. It was really amazing to find so many social evils tackled in such a tiny space of nine episodes without ever loosing focus and pace of the main narrative. Really impressive…directors and script writers take a bow..

Adil & Tara Khanna

The performance by Sobhita (Tara Khanna) and Arjun Mathur (Karan Mehra)  are astounding. They are sincere, touching and very adorable. They really shine. The supporting roles by JIm Sarbh (Adil Khanna) and Shivani (Jazz) are genuine and convincing. Shashank Arora (Kabir) is very cute and lovable as the official videographer. Kalki is as usual glamorous, perfect and classy. 

The title song too grows on you after three or four episodes and I loved it very much. It kind of reminded me of the effect of GOT title song. It has a very nice feel and captures the wedding atmosphere beautifully. Very impressive.

Overall it’s a 4.5/5 rating. A perfect blend of all ingredients in the most balanced proportions and served in the most stylized way..Go for it..