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Hello everyone!
Just got done watching the first episode of this show - and although coming to the forum revealed quite a few review posts, I still felt compelled to make one of my own. For now - hopefully the mods don't treat multiple takes as spam.
In the meanwhile.
I'm going to put aside my few but fundamental points of contention with what I've perceived of the show from this first episode, and focus on instead on what really impressed me about it for now - because just the making and materializing of such a show on Indian telly deserves that kind of applause sans critique.
- Aamir is truly a man who understands the balance between commercial and concept. He's worked out the whole "concept" so meticulously, while simultaneously keeping the commercial backing so foolproof, that there genuinely is scope for this show to make a difference. Through several parts of the show, I asked myself, isn't that obvious? And the answer was staring back -obvious is irrelevant. What happens by launching a concept like this at SUCH a hugely commercialized pedestal on a channel like SP, with a production banner like AK production, with "philanthropy" partners like Reliance, is that he minimizes the chance of making lofty promises that fall flat. Money is a BIG part of bringing about any change, sadly or not, and I'm personally in great awe of how Aamir manages to balance a message oriented concept with a financial backup to see it through.
- Going back to meticulous. I LOVE the way he put that entire episode together. The research has been thorough, of course, but the presentation, the final execution of the years of work has been so algorithmic, it's IMPOSSIBLE to miss any point. And he hasn't kept touching upon the problem a one dimensional approach, which is a feat in itself, because touching such social problems is a complex matter to begin with. Again, in awe of how the whole complexity bordering on ambiguity of the situation has been broken into this discrete mini steps/packets rendering an understanding of the big picture so much simpler. The key to solving a tedious problem.
- Finally, of course, I usually have credibility issues with regards to social cause oriented shows. Like serious ones. But somehow, Aamir is just the kind of "celebrity" face who makes you want to believe. In a problem. In a cause. In a resolution. That he's used that vantage point for the promotion of such a concept is (as all the buzz about the show claims) very commendable. Even if for a second I was going to doubt the factual consequence of this show, skeptical about actual results to come of it - the one guaranteed point is materializing the concept itself. The inception of an idea to fight out something so large scale, needs to be at a larger scale - and the way this whole launch and show has come about for now, larger it is. If the recent history of Indian judiciary is anything to go by, there have been few but consequential verdicts that have been outcomes of media promotion and public rising. One of those rare few instances where being "overpopulated" becomes an indirect boon of that kind of "human resource" which can actually create a wave of opinion when in majority.
Overall, I think it's a first of a kind outreach reality concept. True to the promos, Aamir is not looking at entertaining, but awakening - and if in the process he does become bigger, I say he deserves it. Him, and the entire team, whom I hope will in time be duly, individually credited - because the making of something so methodical and complicated is the work of a team where EVERYONE understands and commits to their responsibility.
Looking forward to the next episode, and in the meanwhile, some discussion around this place!
xx
JZ
[ps: Kinda exhausted to proof read, overlook typos please!]
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