Rakhi Sharma

It is first time that I dozed off in the middle of an episode.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali was the only reason I eagerly awaited this series. Sadly, he may be a brilliant movie maker but to be equally proficient in OTT series is another story altogether.

There are so many characters so much darkness that you wonder “kya hua,kyun hua,kaise hua Sanjay tuneh yeh kya kiya” (What happened, why did it happen, how did it happen Sanjay, What have you done)???

It’s moving from one gloomy act to another with zero humour, zero brightness. 

Each frame is an epitome of perfection and is like a live painting but you can’t stare at even an MF Hussain painting for more than a few minutes. 

The audience gets confused,bored,disengaged, and irritated.

Manisha Koirala has acted well but you get tired of her cruel ways and wicked persona after a while.

Each character is dressed to kill but what is killed is the viewer’s interest.

Netflix trusted Bhansali blindly and therefore did not have any checkpoints during the production process. That’s what I think this is the most slow-paced and missable series I have seen on this platform.

The male characters Shekhar Suman, his son Adhyayan Suman and Fardeen Khan have a “you blink and you miss” kind of roles.

So all you have is the dreadful Heeramandi and trapped within it all its ladies and trapped outside it the poor audience 

Verdict: Totally avoidable