Web Series Review | Kaun Banegi Shikharwati: Perfect Casting Saves This Series

Set inside the royal land of Rajasthan, ‘Kaun Banegi Shikharwati’ is a hackneyed ten-episode dramedy the place a father makes an try and reunite his 4 estranged daughters to save lots of plenty of the legacy they preserve.

Naseeruddin Shah performs Raja Mrityunjay, the erstwhile King of Shikharwati, who’s slowed down with empty coffers and an unlimited debt to the Indian Authorities – in relation to property tax in arrears. To keep away from losing himself from the state of affairs he’s in, with the help of his shut confidant Mishraji, he feigns an odd illness and calls his 4 estranged daughters; Devyani, Gayatri, Kamini, and Uma to his palace with the reassurance that he would resolve an heir after the 4 of them compete in a contest.

The ideas of the opponents are straightforward. There might be 9 rounds inside the opponents, and each spherical might be a course of which the princesses should perform. In the end, the winner of the opponents might be appointed the following “King”. That’s how the plot kicks in and thus begins the predictable misadventures of the quirky princesses who do their darndest to win.

Each episode is astutely crafted with paintings that seems insubstantial and meandering on the ground and thus may repulse some. Nonetheless by the tenth episode, after you should have had the endurance of sitting through the earlier 9, you’d get hooked to go looking out the gathering end on a big and heart-warming remember.

As for the characters; Naseeruddin Shah as a result of the idiosyncratic Raja alongside together with his fuzzy tuft making an attempt as cosily rumpled as an unmade mattress, making it clear that Raja Mritunjay shouldn’t be a heartless, indicate man and that he has the welfare of his daughters and his property at coronary coronary heart, Lara Dutta as Devyani his oldest daughter with marital factors, Soha Ali Khan as his considerate second daughter Gayatri who’s a single mom to her two children, Kritika Kamra as his third single daughter Kamini who’s obsessed over her social media follower rely and Anya Singh as Uma his allergy-prone, gamer daughter, Cyrus Sahukar as Devyani’s husband Harsh Neotia, Raghubir Yadav as Mishraji, and the rest of the ilk, all appear stereotypical and oft-seen.

Equally, spare for a handful of impressed scenes, the rest of the gathering appear cliched and unoriginal.

In lesser fingers, ‘Kaun Banegi Shikharwati’ might have been indigestible pablum, nevertheless its pitch-perfect strong obtained’t permit you to rapidly neglect the poignant bonding of the gathering. There’s a pure performative prime quality to the actors’ embodiment of their characters. All of them seem like residing their parts effortlessly and are spectacular of their marked roles, with them going huge at all times with smirks, sighs, smiles, and tears.

Whole, mounted with ace manufacturing values, the gathering appears staged with damaged individuals in quest of – connection and unity, who wind up tidy to a cheesy fault.

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–By Troy Ribeiro

Web Assortment: Kaun Banegi Shikharwati
Directors: Gauravv Okay Chawla, Ananya Banerjee
Stable: Naseeruddin Shah, Raghubir Yadav, Soha Ali Khan, Lara Dutta, Anya Singh, Kritika Kamra, Cyrus Sahukar, Varun Thakur
Streaming on: Zee5
Size: Averaging 40 minutes per episode