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Flavours of the season: chudails and shaitans!😆😉
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There are a few new shows too. For starters, there's Anamika (Sony), a love story-meets-horror-meets happy families kind of drama. Large parts of every episode are devoted to showing us a warm and jolly extended Punjabi family where the unlikely matriarch, Bebe, is addicted to her iPad and video games (nice!), the son Jeet is a happy-go-lucky aspiring boxer, and the family pet is a fluffy little dog called Chiku. But each episode also throws in some spooky stuff: a missing bracelet that suddenly reappears, a twisted ankle that miraculously heals overnight etc. It's not that hard a mystery to crack though, since we (the viewers) have been given so many clues that we'd have to be absolute duffers not to figure it out. We've already been introduced to the enigmatic young woman / spirit (or should I say 'chudail,' because she definitely seems evil) who is behind all these mysterious happenings. She seems desperately keen on Jeet😳, and so the cheerful young man is unlikely to remain cheerful for much longer. So far the serial is quite nicely done, even though it does make for slightly schizophrenic viewing because it keeps oscillating between family soap and horror show (though the horror -- so far -- is low-key and restricted to gusts of wind and fluttering curtains).😳
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There are a few new shows too. For starters, there's Anamika (Sony), a love story-meets-horror-meets happy families kind of drama. Large parts of every episode are devoted to showing us a warm and jolly extended Punjabi family where the unlikely matriarch, Bebe, is addicted to her iPad and video games (nice!), the son Jeet is a happy-go-lucky aspiring boxer, and the family pet is a fluffy little dog called Chiku. But each episode also throws in some spooky stuff: a missing bracelet that suddenly reappears, a twisted ankle that miraculously heals overnight etc. It's not that hard a mystery to crack though, since we (the viewers) have been given so many clues that we'd have to be absolute duffers not to figure it out. We've already been introduced to the enigmatic young woman / spirit (or should I say 'chudail,' because she definitely seems evil) who is behind all these mysterious happenings. She seems desperately keen on Jeet😳, and so the cheerful young man is unlikely to remain cheerful for much longer. So far the serial is quite nicely done, even though it does make for slightly schizophrenic viewing because it keeps oscillating between family soap and horror show (though the horror -- so far -- is low-key and restricted to gusts of wind and fluttering curtains).😳
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