Made in heaven (Amazon series by Zoya Akhtar and Excel Entertainment) - Page 2

Warning - long post ahead on my thoughts (with spoilers):

The Tara personal story was interesting up to a point. I think we've all seen the 'ambitious' aunties, i.e. Tara's mom, that want their daughters to get married to rich men so that they can have better lives, so Tara's backstory was interesting in that from childhood she was taught to marry a rich man so she could be settled in life. She even showed those shades of grey but herself leaking her sex tape so that she could guilt Jim Sarbh into marrying her. The eventual realisation that the 'rich' life is all but khokhla eventually - and that money can't buy you happiness if your husband is cheating on you parts - also dragged on for a bit, most of us can see it from a mile away, especially when they show the contrast that when Tara goes to her sister's house and sees her happy with her husband and child.

Speaking of Jim cheating on Tara with Kalki, Zoya and co. could have easily cut out some of the Kalki and psychiatrist scenes and put in more of Kalki's back story - what exactly happened with Bilal, what was her relationship with Jim before the affair so that we can understand whether Jim just felt bad for Tara so he married her and was actually never in love with Tara and is with her because of society etc, or were Jim and Kalki attracted to each other before / find more in common being rich and all. Also LOL at Zoya for showing Alia break a bottle on Kalki's head last month in Gully Boy, and now Tara breaking all of Kalki's mirrors etc when Kalki's characters are always like oh let's talk it out types 😆.

Amongst the remaining supporting cast, the actual character that was really interesting was that of Jazz (Jasmeet). The whole my brother is doing drugs so now I'm the son of the family moment could have been done better, most people have seen Udta Punjab so they get what's happening there but I liked how they used Jazz and her naivete and innocence to solve actual problems for the weddings. It was kind of sweet to see her relationship with the garage mechanic boyfriend juxtaposed with her wanting to be with Kabir the photographer (what she aspired to be and then eventually realised she didn't want to fit into that world). Some parts were really well done and then some parts just dragged on for a bit.