THE FAME GAME – TASTELESS DARK CHOCOLATE

Madhuri Dixit as they say debuts the OTT platform giving her ever craving fans more, but alas the makers go their way. When you have Madhuri Dixit on screen, just her presence brings a smile on your face. You Smile when she smiles. But when she cries; she cries alone. Why?

Because The Fame Game is lame take on fading Bollywood’s creativity who makes Bharta out of Paneer, forgetting what ingredient they had in hand.

As the makers get into the zone that Bollywood in enough exposed in the recent few years, Dharmatic entertainment go The Madhur Bhandarkar way. What Madhur Bhandarkar does is with real stories, He put up a strong perception toplined by entertainment and Milan Luthria had put it out loud and clear “Entertainment, Entertainment and Entertainment”. Makers with Madhuri Dixit at hand should have entertained than put us in a sob-mob of artists around Madhuri Dixit who only add to the misery of watching “ Finding Anamika” that was rechristened to such a lame name The Fame Game.

Madhuri on OTT in a long-driven series was much awaited because fans want to see her more, just her smile can make fans across the globe Dhak Dhak. Alas, as Anamika Anand there is very little ‘Anand’ watching this star who in entangled in the bad cobweb of the fame as created by the makers.

The Fame Game is elongated Kalank coming out on Netflix from Karan Johar’s Dharmatic Productions. With Director as Bejoy Nambiar not for all the episodes, the series lacks his style too and neither the mystery is mysterious enough to keep you hooked till the end.

Now why I call it elongated Kalank, as the makers not only make you watch a scene of Kalank integrated in the series they also make you go through one of the actors enacting the scene poorly. Double the torture.

Plus not only The Fame Game easily predictive, it is poorly repetitive too in its execution.

It gets on your nerves with the slow execution and poor editing. Long shots of Manav Kaul swimming to and fro in the pool, inconsistency in the character graph of Anamika Anand or say Vijuu. Lack of clarity on what they want to showcase. Seems like a short film is far stretched to a fit in a series, with the number of episodes. Hardly delivering the Magic of Madhuri Dixit is and such a stellar performer Manav kaul who in some his scenes brings much needed meat and depth to the character he plays. Sanjay Kapoor is poorly caricatured and the Lady Inspector who leads the investigation, OMG, her role is so poorly written and enacted, a better cast was needed she walks in a home reciting or rather mimicking dialogues the Gabbar way.

Thankfully, OTT is controlled by the remote in our hand. The makers have made “The Fame Game” considering we are locked up in a theater and can’t make an easy exit.

My opinion move on to inventing Anna on Netflix than reinventing Madhuri’s Magic on OTT. Rather watch her one of the blockbuster to give-in the Madhuri Dixit Craving. I will be revisiting Devdas to see the magic of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s cinema that celebrates Madhuri Dixit.

PK Verdict: Tin**