Forged: Manoj Pahwa, Seema Pahwa, Gulshan Devaiah, Girija Oak Godbole, Kaveri Seth & others
Creator: Palak Bhambri
Director: Sachin Pathak
Streaming On: YouTube
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 8 episodes of 40 minutes each
Last week, we watched an online series depicting an Indian family in Thode Door Thode Paas, which was removed from reality. I loved it, but then I used to be dragged out of that La La Land this week with Pankaj Tripathi’s web series Perfect Family. The actor has changed into a producer with this family drama, which breaks myths about families being together and glad, one therapy session at a time!
Perfect Family Review: What’s It About:
The online series sets its premise straight – there may be an Indian family, Karkaria, Manoj Pahwa, and Seema Pahwa play the heads, the daddy and the mother. Girija Oak Godbole and Gulshan Devaiah play the son and the bahu of the family who wish to live individually, together with their two kids. Kaveri Seth plays the separated daughter of the family!
Now, talking about Indian families, let’s just admit it, every Indian family, especially those obsessive about ‘log kya kahenge’, is at all times one crisis away from a significant showdown amongst its members of the family.
Perfect Family Review: What Works:
The Perfect Family drops us right right into a sweet-sour bickering world of the Karkaria family. Forget the grand sets and a filmy Barjatya or Karan Johar family and the sweeping romances and laughing members, this series is raw, real, and albeit, a bit uncomfortable, and that is precisely why this show works for me personally. It is rather near the reality.
The online series shouldn’t be a laughter riot or an entertaining outing with comic punches. Truthfully, that is an eight-episode therapy session that every one of us should attend and all of us desperately need on this fast-paced world. The show starts immediately with its premise when the granddaughter, Daani, gets a panic attack in her school after recalling the fights in her home. The whole Karkaria family, which maintains the image of a happy-go-lucky Punjabi family, is forced to go to a counselor on the insistence of the granddaughter’s school!
What follows next shouldn’t be a dramatic expose, but a really slow and heartbreaking means of peeling back layers and secrets of a family and why they don’t get together with one another on account of old wounds and differences that haunt them to this point.
Perfect Family Review: Star Performance:
Manoj and Seema Pahwa, the real-life couple, bring a really raw and real chemistry on screen because the senior Karkarias. Their veiled issues because the mithai-shop owner and his dutiful wife are effortless. Manoj Pahwa is sensible because the ‘my-way-or-the-highway’ father who fears falling down. Seema Pahwa, meanwhile, breaks your heart because the mother whose entire identity is tied up in her family, slowly realising she might deserve an ice cream at India Gate only for herself. She owns the emotional core!
Gulshan Devaiah & Girija Oak Godbole steal the show because the junior Karkaria couple. If the Pahwas lay the muse of marital issues, Gulshan and Girija are the crumbling partitions that elaborate these issues. Their portrayal of a pair desperately attempting to reconcile their carefree college romance while coping with their suffocating marital reality is sensible.
The anchor of this show is Neha Dhupia, who deserves applause for making therapists and counsellors seem so real and essential in life. I hope that, taking a look at her, people shed the inhibitions they’ve about therapists and reach out to at least one as soon as they feel they need counselling!
Perfect Family Review: What Doesn’t Work:
With every episode and each therapy session, she unlocks the family’s deep-rooted resentment and trauma. Nonetheless, at times it gets a bit too uncomfortable, and you wish a moment to breathe. The backstories sometimes make the plate too full. Furthermore, the show is an honest commitment, and it doesn’t have a wow moment; it’s there on your consumption and never to entertain much!
Perfect Family Review: Last Words:
The online series is a winner for me simply for introducing the concept of counselling without offering any lessons. Not once does it get preachy about families falling apart and the necessity for counsellors to bring them back together. Neha Dhupia acts because the catalyst for this show.
The Perfect Family is an honest report card on the fashionable Indian household. It tells you that it’s okay to not be perfect, it’s alright when you need assistance, and it’s okay if the issues remain messy despite searching for help. The solid brilliantly holds the show and keeps it too real. To be honest, the show is urgently needed, and it requires your attention. This web series might enable you take that one step towards collective healing.
3.5 stars.
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