Amazon Prime Video has come up with their latest show, 바카라˜Happy Family: Conditions Apply바카라™. Is the Gujarati family drama worth your time? Read the full review to find out.
Director: Aatish Kapadia, JD Majethia
Cast: Raj Babbar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Atul Kulkarni, Ayesha Jhulka, Raunaq Kamdar, Meenal Sahu, Atul Kumar, Sanah Kapur
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
Duration: 10 Episode, 30 Minutes Each
바카라˜Happy Family: Conditions Apply바카라™ promises to be a hilarious family drama, woven around a close-knit dysfunctional Gujarati family. With four generations living under one roof, the family is bound to have many ups and downs, often leading to comical events. The series promises unlimited laughter with a touch of drama and emotions. Strong as an anchor during tough days, the family promise that it will not fail to amuse you when the days are light. Will they be able to keep you amused throughout? Well, you바카라™ll have to watch the show to find out.
Ratna Pathak Shah as baa steals the show in every sense of the word. She wins you over with her funny antics and the dialect is oh-so-perfect. She will remind you all of your dadis. While we all know that they are not wrong in what they바카라™re saying, but with the generational gap creeping in, the youngsters start feeling that whatever the dadis are saying doesn바카라™t apply in today바카라™s times. However, we all know that their words and concern come from a place of love. Ratna Pathak Shah embodies the sentiment perfectly, and whenever she is onscreen you바카라™re just hoping for something or the other to happen. She is simply too good.
Atul Kulkarni as the father of the family has the second largest screen space after Ratna Pathak Shah. However, in the initial episodes, his act as the controlling-yet-meek father somehow feels forced. But a couple of episodes down the line, you바카라™re sort of used to it and are actually wanting to see him come up with some logic of his own. We all have seen the typical fathers who want their sons and daughters to do well in life, but don바카라™t feel like letting them out of their houses to explore the world on their own. Atul Kulkarni picks up on that emotion and builds it perfectly.
It바카라™s sad to see that Ayesha Jhulka doesn바카라™t have too many dialogues in the series as such. Excepting her bit with the selfie stick, and the antics around it, she barely has too much to do. I wish she had more to showcase in this character.
Raj Babbar as the Dadaji somehow is not able to get the dialect correct, which technically he should have gotten the best, considering he is the eldest in the family. Had it been that the youngsters aren바카라™t speaking too much in a Gujarati dialect, it would have been understood, but usually, the Dadaji character would have a better accent. To add to it, when paired opposite Ratna Pathak Shah, he doesn바카라™t come out that bright. He does have a few moments, but whenever he is around, Ratna Pathak Shah is also there, and invariably his performance falls weak when in comparison to hers.
Meenal Sahu as the grand bahu of the family is decent. She does have a mystery around her character, which will keep you confused throughout. While usually in Indian households it바카라™s the bahu바카라™s who바카라™re blamed for taking the sons away and breaking the family home, but Meenal Sahu바카라™s character proves that바카라™s it바카라™s not a hard-and-fast rule, and things can be different for different households. Her banters with Ratna Pathak Shah have the typical saas-bahu feel, but they바카라™re usually too funny to hold your laughter back.
Raunaq Kamdar continuously trying to tell people to call him 'Sanjuoy' instead of 'Sanjay' doesn't hit the mark properly. It's too forced and isn't even that funny after the first time. His character too doesn't have too much depth into it. He is any regular current day boy who's trying to move away from his joint fammily so as to start a nuclear family of his own.
Sanah Kapur doesn바카라™t have too much to do in the show. Her character keeps swaying between trying to be woke and being the glue that holds the family together, despite their differences in opinion. The creators of the show should have made her the narrator of the story and shown things from her neutral perspective, which could have given her character more depth, and Sanah Kapure more screen time.
The rest of the supporting cast is decently good. Some characters like the brother-in-law (doctor character) seem to be pretty much lifted from the maker바카라™s previous show 바카라˜Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai바카라™. Even the character of the masi-dadi, who always keeps saying Hello and Who Is This on the phone, despite the caller id saying the name. That바카라™s also quite similar to another character of 바카라˜Hae Hae Chand바카라™ in 바카라˜Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai바카라™.
Directors JD Majethia and Aatish Kapadia bring back the old world charm of 바카라˜Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai바카라™ or 바카라˜Khichdi바카라™ in 바카라˜Happy Family: Conditions Apply바카라™. The genre of slapstick comedy has pretty much been abolished in today바카라™s times considering the audiences are more into intelligent comedy. But JD Majethia and Aatish Kapadia have proved once again that if made well, with relatable characters and instances from real-life, even a slapstick comedy can also be great fun to watch.
Aatish Kapadia, JD Majethia, Kesar Majethia, Vibhawari Deshpande, Sourav Ghosh and Khushali Jariwala manages to keep the scenarios funny. From the very onset, they바카라™re very open about the slapstick nature of the show, and they바카라™ve delivered on it aptly. To add to that the little nuances of a common Gujarati household have been shown very nicely. From the weekly family outings to selfie stick antics to the loud and over-the-top dadi 바카라“ everything is very typical, very well balanced and very scrutinisingly picked up from real life.
Cinematographer Sanket Shah makes use of a sitcom-like set and fits it perfectly into the day-to-day ways of a rich Gujarati family. As it has been shot entirely indoors, there바카라™s not too much of a skill to her shown here. But overall, it바카라™s decently presented.
Ajay A. Kumar and Abhishek Shetty바카라™s editing is crisp and to the point. Keeping the episodes to 30 minutes each was a masterstroke. It doesn바카라™t let the comedy get too overbearing on your senses. And if you바카라™re enjoying it, then you anyways have 10 episodes of it, which is more in number than what usually today바카라™s web series have.
Hiral Viradia바카라™s music is possibly the only thing in the show which doesn바카라™t have too much to do. Usually, background scores transport you to the story, and make you feel like you바카라™re standing with the characters throughout. Hiral Viradia바카라™s music missed on majorly on that aspect.
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바카라˜Happy Family: Conditions Apply바카라™ takes you back to simpler times when audiences used to be forgiving and used to enjoy slapstick comedy with great fervour. JD Majethia and Aatish Kapadia bring the old-world charm. In today바카라™s times when you바카라™ve access to the entire world바카라™s content at a palm바카라™s distance, you바카라™re not expecting a desi slapstick to be this hilarious. The makes don바카라™t lie about what they바카라™re going to show, and they deliver on it properly. While it바카라™s not as great as a Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai바카라™ or 바카라˜Khichdi바카라™, it is indeed a great fun watch. If you바카라™re looking for some intelligent or high-end comedy, this surely isn바카라™t for you. But for the rest, this is indeed a Must Watch. I am going with 4 stars.