Director: Priyanak Ghose
Cast: Siddharth Shukla, Sonali Rathee, Ehan Bhat
Platform: Alt Balaji
Rating: 2.5 stars
After winning the hearts of the people with his angry young man avatar in Bigg Boss 13, actor Sidharth Shukla is all set to make his digital debut with the web series Broken But Beautiful 3. It is the third installment in the popular franchise produced by Ekta Kapoor. It marks the debut of social media sensation Sonia Rathee.
There has been an unprecedented hype around Broken But Beautiful 3 courtesy the presence of Sidharth Shukla. Finally, the show is coming out tomorrow on ALT Balaji and MX Player. As members of the press, we were invited for a virtual screening where we got to see the first four episodes. Our review is completely based on it. Does the show live upto the expectations? Is it a perfect predecessor to the love story of Veer (Vikrant Massey) and Sameera (Harleen Sethi). Here is our review of the same…
So, are you excited about what to watch this weekend or what to watch this week and wondering whether the Broken But Beautiful 3 web series is worth your time? Scroll down for our full Broken But Beautiful 3 review…
Review
Broken, but Beautiful, that’s the perfect saying to describe the new series featuring Siddharth Shuka and Sonia Rathee. While the screenplay is cliché with stuff that we have seen in every Bollywood romantic saga that falls in the intense space, there’s something in the narrative that keeps us hooked onto the screen, wanting to know how Agastya and Rumi’s love story proceeds. The director, Priyanka Ghose, takes a novel approach to establish the leads in the first two episodes of the series, taking us through their personality traits.
The third and forth episode is when they fall for each other and then begins the evolution of the two characters, finding solace in each other’s energy and approach to life. Broken But Beautiful 3 is beautiful, but then, there’s nothing that you have not seen before. Apart from the two leads, there’s Ehan Bhat, who plays a charismatic man with a magnetic presence. The music as also the production values too are top notch with no compromises made on the budget or scale of the film. However, the dialogues are just about average, and tend to get repetitive too after a point of time.
While the fate of story depends on what happens in the coming six episodes, one can easily say that the makers have taken the first four episodes to set the base for the drama to explode. Coming to performances, Siddharth Shukla leaves a mark in playing the eccentric Agastya and gets hang of the emotions without going too over the top. He makes a smashing debut on the digital world. Sonia makes a confident forray into the world of acting as the happy go lucky Rumi, who is fighting several inner conflicts ranging from heartbreak to jealously. Ehan Bhat, though doesn’t have a lot of scope to perform, succeeds in doing what the script demands him to – look charismatic. The rest of the cast do justice to their respectable roles.
All said and done, Broken But Beautiful 3 has a heart at it’s right place, but breaks too easily as it fails to bring in the novelty. While it has ample for the Siddharth Shukla fans, as also the daily soap audience, who will lap onto it in a big way, but this one doesn’t have anything to offer to the ones exposed to the global content on world wide web. It’s a mixed bag and will find mixed reactions depending on the respective taste buds.
Source: Pinksvilla
