After watching Manifest – every season by season I wanted to watch a light web series, something from the comedy or drama genre. This series Pushpavalli was showing on my Amazon Prime home screen as a recommendation.
This is a ‘comedy-drama’ series where a girl named Pushpavalli meets a guy called Nikhil at an organic food convention and falls in love with him. Unable to get him out of her mind, she follows him to Bangalore and does everything that a creepy stalker would do. Also, she starts to work with his friend Pankaj in a children’s library.
She is so desperate that she start to tell lies which gets an innocent girl out of her job and portrays images of Nikhil as a stalker in front of Pankaj. Also, she is telling lies to everyone and behaving like a creepy stalker. She is manipulating Nikhil by making him think that they (pushpavalli and nikhil) met again in Bangalore by co-incidence and they keep on meeting coincidentally which is actually all planned by Pushpavalli. What non-sense!
I watched the episodes by pressing skip buttons because it was at-times so annoying. She is stealing data from the library to give to the informer to get info. about Nikhil, putting blames on other people to save herself and what not.
Apart from this, Pankaj’s character is so irritated all the time. He has to abuse in every single sentence he speaks. He calls ass**** to girls and uses the f word as if it’s really cool. Guess what! Abusive language is NOT COOL, in fact it is IRRITATING!
I don’t understand why the writers of such shows think that adding abusive dialogues will attract more viewers and it’s really cool?
I will really appreciate the performance of all the actors as their acting was so natural that I was actually feeling irritated. Also, I feel bad for Nikhil.
In one of the interviews, I read writer-actor of the show, Sumukhi Suresh says she wanted to create a problematic but relatable female character. And now, I am thinking is this really relatable? Behaving like a creep, telling lies for own’s good, being selfish, playing with someone else’s career?
I read some reviews on web where they appreciated this series and calling it Hilarious? I mean really?
I was expecting it to be a nice comedy drama like Shaandar, Gippi but it is not! I felt it was somewhat like the AIB humour which I personally don’t like.
Okay, I know at times love makes people do crazy things and they exaggerate in the shows, but not to this extent. I couldn’t watch beyond episode 4. What I saw was enough for me. Maybe, it’s not my genre!
I prefer thriller, sci fi, romance, fantasy and comedy with a ‘good story’.
If you like watching shows that makes sense, are actually ‘comedy’ (like FRIENDS, How I met your mother, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai and Tripling, for that matters), and have a good story, then don’t watch this. If you like watching anything and everything just for the sake of time-pass, then watch it.
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