{"id":6740,"date":"2016-03-21T04:08:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T22:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2016-03-21T04:08:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T22:38:46","slug":"masaba-masaba-review-mothers-and-daughters-just-wanna-have-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/?p=6740","title":{"rendered":"Masaba Masaba Review: Mothers and Daughters Just Wanna Have Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\nM<\/span>asaba Masaba<\/em>, Netflix\u2019s latest original series centred on the lives of celebrity mother-daughter duo Neena and Masaba Gupta, who play fictionalised versions of themselves, really starts off with a boisterous scene that has Neena Gupta inside a car. She\u2019s taking a driver\u2019s test with the seasoned confidence of a F1 driver. On the passenger seat is a terrified driving instructor, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you hire a driver?\u201d he asks her. What he means is this: Surely, this isn\u2019t the age for you to experiment with driving. \u201cI\u2019m not even 60 yet,\u201d the actress shoots back, adding that she has decided to try her hand at all the things that she\u2019s always wanted to do, like swimming, getting a tattoo<\/a>… and playing a lead role in a film.\n\nThe callback is as obvious as it is instant. I was immediately transported to Neena Gupta\u2019s career-invigorating turn in Badhaai Ho<\/a><\/em>, the 2018 film where she did in fact get a starring role after years of being out of work. The point of this scene in Masaba Masaba<\/em> is an act of foreshadowing: the makers recreate Neena Gupta on the sets of Badhaai Ho<\/em> (and use it as an excuse for a delightful Gajraj Rao cameo) in its finale episode. It\u2019s a terrific dig at how older women are expected to eschew any desires or ambition once they cross a certain age. Life for them then, is meant to be spent only in the confines of the backseat.\n\nSet presumably in late 2017, Masaba Masaba<\/em> takes the candyfloss \u201cgirls can have some fun too\u201d approach to its storytelling, templatised by big-screen outings like Aisha<\/em>, Veere Di Wedding<\/a> <\/em>and recent small-screen affairs like Four More Shots<\/a><\/em>. Yet, I\u2019d argue the six-episode show, directed by Sonam Nair (Gippi), isn\u2019t just a blank statement: It\u2019s charming, self-aware, and occasionally witty.\n\nBut where it scores over its counterparts is in its emotional resonance: the idea of the sisterhood<\/a> being vital nourishment. Masaba Masaba<\/em> isn\u2019t just the coming-of-age tale of a highly successful millennial designer, it\u2019s the story of two talented women whose individual accomplishments are incomplete and impossible without each other.\n\n

The six-episode show isn\u2019t just a blank statement: It\u2019s charming, self-aware, and occasionally witty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nThe perils of being famous<\/strong>\n\nIf the legacy that Masaba Gupta has single-handedly managed to create for herself stems from her mother\u2019s steadfast refusal to submit to the conventions of a society that can\u2019t handle female independence, then Neena Gupta\u2019s comeback to the movies is a direct result of having the backing of a daughter<\/a> who reminds her to never second-guess herself only because the world can\u2019t keep up with her. In that sense, Masaba Masaba<\/em> investigates the perils of being a famous woman burdened with living up to impossible standards of public scrutiny, as well as the strenuous task of being famous in the first place.\n\nCo-written by Nair, Nandini Gupta, and Anupama Ramachandran (Punya Arora is credited for additional screenplay and dialogue), the premise of Masaba Masaba<\/em> is obviously located in the National Award-winning Neena Gupta\u2019s now-viral Instagram post about being on the lookout for work. At the time, it was dubbed bold, courageous, albeit a little naive.\n\nBut seeing Masaba Masaba<\/em> fictionalise the moment, born out of Neena Gupta\u2019s dissatisfaction with being passed over for roles, it becomes clear that it was nothing but an ask of dignity; an exercise in asking to be remembered. That to me, is the primary reason that Masaba Masaba<\/em> works, even when it goes a little overboard with its millennial fixations (a bisexual stoner artist subplot is as dull as they come and Masaba\u2019s new collection is literally made hashtag-friendly: #HotMess). Ultimately, it reveals itself as a show that is dedicated to being a record of the successes of women as much as the successful women<\/a> themselves.\n\nThere\u2019s also the fact that Masaba Gupta, in her debut as an actor, has incredible screen presence, livening up even the most cliched lines of dialogue and filmmaking decisions. The show opens with the breakdown of her marriage<\/a>, one that is handed in such a fuss-free, empathetic manner that it almost came as a shock. It\u2019s laudable how the writers stop themselves from diving into the details of the separation or even squarely blame it on anyone, highlighting instead the fact that sometimes it\u2019s normal for even the most loving relationships to come to an end.\n\n

It\u2019s even clever how Masaba Masaba<\/em> uses Instagram as a device for emotional communication.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nNeena Gupta is a queen<\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s even clever how Masaba Masaba<\/em> uses Instagram<\/a> as a device for emotional communication. In scene after scene, Masaba broadcasts her feelings to the world even before she allows herself the time to process it. There\u2019s an especially bittersweet moment that captures how easy the internet has made it for the world to be nosy about the tragedy of strangers. On a car ride back home, Masaba and her husband jointly decide to break the news of their divorce on Instagram to bypass incessant questions and nagging suggestions. Masaba reluctantly agrees and cross checks the caption by him. He has one suggestion: Could she make it seem like they\u2019re more sad about it?\n\nBut the biggest reason that the show, despite its storyline devolving into abject ridiculousness in the last two episodes, remains immensely watchable is because of Neena Gupta. Playing a possibly watered-down version of herself, the actress gives a performance that carries in it a lightness of touch as well as the incomparable high of watching someone casually make a meal out of improvisation.\n\nThere\u2019s no doubt about how effortlessly she can light up the screen with the subtlest of gestures, but Masaba Masaba<\/em> truly unlocks her generousness as an actor. Some of her best scenes are the ones where she shrinks herself to allow her co-actor reach their fullest potential. Granted, it isn\u2019t the most perfect show but when you have the distinction of having Neena Gupta star in a music video where she admonishes millennials<\/a> for calling her \u201caunty,\u201d you can\u2019t be much far from it.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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