I binge-watched the Empire show on Hotstarš
Man, so many Didi type characters in that too.....lol women who feel ENTITLED to manipulate others to get what they want.....bahut Didi deja vu ho raha tha especially woh Babur ki second wife ko dekh kar......lol
Baaki DD had a decent role as Khanzaada.....matlab dimaag lagaa ke she outwitted her way out of many tough situations.....her track with Shaibani Khan was thoda mixed bag but I liked that she had brains.
I dunno why people are calling it a cheap copy of GoT....lol this battle for the throne is age old...GoT ka copyright nahin is storyline pe. Anyways I thought they did a decent job of the story even though it's slow in bits......the focus of the story is on the struggle between compassion and ruthlessness in how to get to the throne and rule a kingdom.....Babur is quite confused about this throughout the series.....lol.....and so many people constantly calling him weak......itne jhatke khaa ke bhi end tak he was confused on the same issues.....thoda Adi ki yaad aa rahi thi ki log tumhein saamne se manipulate kar rahe hain phir bhi tum sharaafat ke putle bane baithe rahoš.
Kaafi hadh tak Babur owed his successes to Khanzaada - his older sister literally watching over him many times.....lol matlab behen na hoti toh yeh toh emotional fool/weak impulsiveness mein hardly kuch manage karta.....so that way it was nice that they had a brother-sister dynamic wala angle.
I guess they shot a lot of this is in Turkey....woh blue mosaic type palaces all looked like they are from Turkey.....but nice grand locations for many of the sequences.
Also worth noting that they didn't go in the typical zone of gratuitous sex scenes....koi bhi waisa scene tha hi nahin despite being a web series.....yeah there was gore and violence, but that's about it.
So many TV actors had roles in this.....lol one of the wazir characters was the guy who played woh Jhanvi ka ex lover in IB for that one epi....I've seen him in other TV shows too but can't place kahaan.....then woh Gracy from the recent Sony show played the younger Khanzaada.....Rahul Dev bhi tha as the trusted advisor of Babar.
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