The series picks up 5 years after where the film left us off. HPN who has climbed up the ranks of One Big Party due to 'hard' work, now has before him an opportunity to take advantage of a hung assembly. An ever so slight but not so subtle dig at the real life Karnataka Politics looms over this laughter riot as Danish tries to one up his colourful set of adversaries and leaves disaster in his wake.
Almost exactly 4 years to the day Danish Sait stormed the big screen as the eponymous Humble Politician Nograj, he returns this time via the digital medium debuting his (and the Kannada language's first) web series on Voot Select!
The series picks up 5 years after where the film left us off. HPN who has climbed up the ranks of One Big Party due to 'hard' work, now has before him an opportunity to take advantage of a hung assembly. An ever so slight but not so subtle dig at the real life Karnataka Politics looms over this laughter riot as Danish tries to one up his colourful set of adversaries and leaves disaster in his wake.
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Kevin Missal is a masterful mythologist who tells his stories set in a world similar yet distant from the ones we get ours from. The characters are shades of grey, some darker than others, rather than sticking out as brilliant white or cold and black. Retelling the exciting bits of the Ramayana, this time through the story of Meghnad in this furiously paced book, is one of his latest endeavours. With a rich array of characters already introduced to, in part through the Baahubali films, this prequel series starts of strong and expands on the open ended mythology that the films left behind to explore. The world-building is sublime and surreal, a far cry from the garish and over the top theatrics employed by the other prequel - The Lost Legends on Amazon Prime. 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Take a bumbling simpleton who wonders at times if ‘Randy’ is actually a guy’s name hailing from ‘Jajau’ a bullock town in the 90’s Madhya Pradesh (even though he calls it ‘The Paris Of Madhya Pradesh,’ I can’t help but wonder) and put him in ‘The New World’ and you have yet another story about ‘The American Dream.’ Enter Gopal, the hero of Anurag Mathur’s ‘The Inscrutable Americans’ - a god-fearing (and mother-fearing and grandmother-fearing) chap who gets a scholarship to study in a small university in Eversville and is travelling to the USA determined to eat vegetarian food (preferably cooked by Brahmins). And yes, he is hell bent on avoiding American women and other ‘unhealthy’ habits. BUT Perfection has a price. With these letters printed boldly on the cover and an eye catching cover image topped with an insanely awesome trailer, Amish’s latest has the recipe for a blockbuster written all over it. 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