LEILA Review | NETLFIX
SYNOPSIS
- Leila is a show on dystopian (undesirable) future in 2047. Shalini (Huma) who had an inter-caste marriage with Rizwan Chaudhary (Rahul Khanna) and they have a 5 year old daughter Leila. His husband bribed the water suppliers and made swimming pool in his house.
- While swimming with his daughter and Shalini clicking pictures, they are attacked by the People of Aryavarta (the people who run the country at that time and are against the western values and culture which includes Inter-Caste Marriage). They attack them for having an Inter-Caste Marriage and stealing water during the time of drought. They kill Rizwan and take Shalini away with them.
- After 2 years, Shalini (now Shalini Pathak) lives in a Shram Ashram which is headed by Guru Ma (Arif Zakaria). The Aryavarta have captured the country even the currency notes are printed with the pictures of the head, Mr. Joshi ( Sanjay Suri) who lives abroad and in India, the Chief is Rao Sahib (Akash Khurana) ( Akash Khurana is Barfi ka Papa). Shalini doesn't know that her husband is dead and wants to find out Leila. She lives a torturous life in Shram Ashram and wants to escape from that place. This starts her journey to find her daughter. She escapes from Ashram, runs away from Police , works in houses of people who are engineer in a Project in Aryavarta. She also meets a Police Officer Bhanu (Siddharth). He wants to finish Aryavarta because of some reasons and wants to take help of Shalini. He promises her to help find her daughter.
- What are those reasons? Will Shalini be able to find out Leila? Will Shalini take help of Bhanu? Why is Shalini working in the house of chief Engineer? Will she be able to dodge the Police , Mr. Joshi, Guru Ma and Rao Sahib and take Leila with her?
"LEILA" RATING
Overall Rating - ★★★★
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- ACTING - ★★★★
- DIRECTION - ★★★★
- STORY - ★★★★1/2
- DIALOGUES - ★★★1/2
- SCREENPLAY - ★★★★
PERFORMANCES
- The acting department excels with the solid story at hand.
- Huma Quereshi is back and how. She just required a role to show her calibre and here she is. Though she could have been better in the emotional scenes, none the less, a powerhouse performance. The scenes reminding of her maid and the scenes where, she is the maid , are powerful and shows her acting prowess .
- Siddharth as Bhanu is very different from Siddharth as Omi from Chashme Baddoor . This shows his versatility as an actor. He is a powerful actor and has shown his calibre aptly. Rahul Khanna as Rizwan Chaudhary is apt in the role given to him.
- The scenes of Arif Zakaria as Guru Ma are tough to watch and he is fantastic here because it was a tailor made role for him.
- Akash Khurana is okay as Rao Sahib. Rahul Khanna was there for just few minutes.
- Overall, the acting performances were fantastic.
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Story and Script Analysis
- The story is lifeline of Leila.
- It takes us through a journey of ups and downs of a lady who wants to find her daughter and wants to know what has happened to her.
- It is a journey of not only the emotional but mental struggle of a lady which is brilliantly portrayed by Huma Qureshi.
Technical Aspects
- The Background Music of the show is very powerful and seems like it is inspired by Sacred Games.
- The Editing is wonderful. The intensity of the series is very good. The emotions have been captured beautifully.
- The screenplay is fast paced.
Direction
- The direction by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar is engaging and powerful.
- There are few scenes which are very powerful and equally disturbing. The marriage sequence in the first episode is the example of how powerful the direction is.
- The concept of dystopian future is also very different yet interesting to watch.
- The episodes never makes a viewer bored.
"LEILA" My Opinion
- Leila , created by Urmi Juvekar and written by Patrick Graham , Suhani Juvekar and again Urmi Juvekar is one of finest Indian series on Netflix.
- Overall, the 6 episodes series on Netflix will be one of the highly talked shows in India and will be loved by the Youth.
- Highly Recommended material.
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FACT
- LEILA is a dystopian drama, co-directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar, is based on Prayaag Akbar's book of the same name.
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