Bombay begums
Netflix
*ing: Pooja Bhatt, Rahul Bose, Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash, Plabita Borthakur, Aadhya Anand
Rated: 5/10
Given the controversies surrounding this latest web series, it may be prudent for those who feel that one must shut one’s eyes to all the bad that is happening around them to avoid this one. However, if you are the kind of person who knows what teenagers are up to these days, you need to watch it to take a lesson and ensure that your wards don’t walk the thin line of what is right and wrong. Of course, one’s perspective of the situation and circumstances also make a difference and one takes decisions based on them.
So despite the hue and cry by child right activists about the inappropriate portrayal of teenagers, the series is also about four other adult women who are trying to make a place for themselves in a man’s world — a world that is filled with cut-throat competition where dog eats dog and it is all about survival of the fittest — you snooze you lose.
Directed by Alankrita Shrivastava (Lipstick Under My Burkha fame), Bombay Begums takes one on a journey where a woman is allowed to pursue her dreams and make it big in life without feeling guilty that they preferred to pursue a career rather stay at home and be a mom.
The only problem here is that even though there is plenty of intrigue and twists and turns in the plot it moves at an extremely slow pace. So much so that one can even go for a bathroom break and come back and pick up the story of these five women without having missed much in terms of how things unfold.
Pooja Bhatt, who was last seen in Sadak 2 plays the part of a powerful banker (Rani) rather well. Her choice of sarees is brilliant and will leave one impressed. Aadhya Anand deserves a round of applause. Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash, Plabita Borthakur do their part as well.
The men here don’t have much to do except plot the downfall of these women so that they rule.