Created by Baljeet Singh Chaddha, Hai Taubba is the freshest development to ALT Balaji's crappiest shows that seems like it's hanging in an obfuscating situation where it doesn't know whether it wants to clear the sick mindset individuals have about gay people, gender inequality, or discrimination based on race and caste or whether it just needs to show seductive scenes in a camouflage of a show that should shed lights on social taboos. ALT Balaji is consistently in full form when introducing such bold shows that simply need to be what they are i.e, bold and unabashed and that's it. Examples are Gandii Baat and XXX.
Exploring the never shown sexual spaces of people like never before, bizarre myths, or muddled relationships, these web series presents everything in a particularly illogical manner, that being a suggestive show unexpectedly gets hilarious. Also, that is the place where this show fizzles too, or possibly the makers simply wanted to do 'this' proudly. Hai Tauba is the same as what ALT Balaji had effectively served us with Gandii Baat, XXX, or even Paurashpur. Hai Tauba is an anthology web show and each episode is unique regarding characters and storylines. Presently just 4 episodes are available to stream and the stories are -
The first episode "Brown Color of Dark Chocolate" is set in Kolkata and is a tale about a miserable wedded couple Mithila (Tuhina Das) and Ankit (Abhishek Singh) who are married for five years and sexually not happy thus the spouse, Ankit, sets up her better half with another man Dhrubo (Saheb Bhattacharjee) so she could get pregnant. However, it is uncovered that Dhrubo and Mithila used to be in a relationship together years prior, they separated because Dhrubo drew near to Mithila's dearest friend Kajri (Triparna Bardhan) yet now Dhrubo has warmth for Mithila as he feels that she is like dark chocolate, once you get addicted to it, there is never turning back. Screenplay, dialogues, and direction are by Rohan Ghose and it had the potential. The couple's intricacies of not being sexually fulfilled and spouse's arrival to this option might have been taken care of with greater sensitivity. Maybe it only attempts to tie you with twists and turns in the story which doesn't make any difference and why Dhrubo is narrating the story? I don't find his character that strong in this story.
It should have been Mithila and Tuhina Das is shockingly magnificent in her role. The feeling of dilemma and being in the dark that his husband is attempting to set her up with another man. This layer stays neglected and it ends unexpectedly. The subsequent episode is "Black and White - Love has no gender, race or color" and thus this episode is black and white as is the name. A cab driver Nitin (Gagan Anand) is soon going to wed a beautiful girl Pooja (Kirandeep Kaur) however he begins to spend most of his time with his trainer Amit (Akshay Neb) whom he had given a lift once. All things considered, there's are zero delicacies in the story, and have numerous layers that ought to have been featured, it's there, however, doesn't pop out.
What does Nitin want? To be with Amit or to wed the girl? For what reason is Amit spending time with Nitin realizing that he will be married soon? Each scene appears to be rushed and incomplete with contrived fights and erotic scenes in the middle. Gagan Anand is sincere in his performance and Shilpa Mehta as Mrs. Kurgaonkar, Amit's Dadi, is consistently a treat to see her. Sunil F Drego's screenplays suffer for not being striking and end childishly. The third episode is "Yellow Yellow Yellow, The Dirty Fellow". Written by Purva Naresh and Asmit Pathare, it revolves around Animesh (Sachin Khurana) who is smitten by the beauty of a secretary of a hotel, Avni (Gauri Batra) yet is stunned to realize that Animesh and Avni are connected. Also, that is a major curve in the story. Once more, the story vacillates to build up anything, the characters don't seem certifiable nor their emotions, however, is marginally better compared to the second episode.
The fourth episode is "Mustard". Still not so good but rather is awesome among all the four. Here it is shown, a spouse running a kitchen named "Auntie's Kitchen" whereas, the wife is working in the share market. Their daughter and a girl help Mahesh in the kitchen. And, one day, the mother sees the two girls kissing, and what happens after that? That you've to see for yourself. There's additionally a wonderful track between Vishal (Rakesh Verma), a Marathi boy, and a caretaker Pooja (Meenakshi Singh), a Bengali girl. The dialogues and seeing how their lives are flipped around is perfectly done, and Vishal begins to ignore Pooja because she's not Marathi is done with lucidity. However, seeing how easily everybody reunites toward the end, disappointed me.
You won't get tired without a doubt and is the only best thing about any ALT Balaji's shows. They are crisp and forthright. However this thing also, some of the time, turns into an issue as you'll feel the story finished suddenly or scenes are lacking and characters have no profundity, and this is the thing that you'll discover in Hai Tauba. The ideas are extraordinary and it would be stunning if that somebody in India would attempt to explore these untouched and taboo spaces in any relationship. In the meantime, I will say you to skip this show, it's the same as Gandii Baat and it's high time that ALT Balaji should quit making shows in these genres as making and executing these shows requires sensitivity, care and thoughtfulness, empathy, and understanding and this show doesn't have one of these.
Rating:- 1/5
Now streaming on ALT Balaji.
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