Project: Masaba Masaba Season 2
Ratings: 4 stars
Delirium and Dilapidation become your growing companion as you age! Especially for a single woman who just hit their 30s in India, with the constant honking of ‘your biological clock is ticking’, ‘why you aren’t married yet?’; getting into severe anxiety attacks isn’t very unusual. However, the fun fact is with these constant contagious ‘call-outs’, there is a lot of sugar-coating that goes and comes around, but nothing leaves us to abandon the sense of redundancy in the process. We already feel we are less wanted, ‘too old’, ‘knees cracking’ all the time, fairly to sum it in saying ‘Mess’.
Well, that’s what Masaba Masaba, the Netflix series is all about! A story of an anxious ‘privileged’ millennial woman, who fights up on the ‘ageing’ doodles in life. The second season is how it deals with and talks about ‘balance’ in life. For life is all about it! Also, it brings light to the delicate topics that women in their freshly 30s and above get into like ‘mid-life crisis’, ‘ageing’, ‘body-image issues’ and more. Too much ‘life’ happening in all the seven episodes, and nothing makes us say that ‘no, that’s not real’.
Also, with another round dose of the reality check, we get Neena Gupta on the other side of the mirror who fights against ‘ageism’.
The Ashvini Yardi directorial stars Masaba Gupta and her mother Neena Gupta in their fictionalised selves, and the duo brilliantly churn out their own ventures and perspectives right on the edge in the show.
Neena Gupta dwells on the times she had in her early days, and gauges that her times were more neoteric. However, her motherly instincts and warmth do not go lost in the entire process for Masaba, and given that, we thoroughly enjoyed every anecdote in which the mother-daughter duo fall into.
On the other hand, Masaba Gupta thrives with an aim in life to become the ‘king of fashion’, but her ambitions go parched in all the untimely ‘millennial’ mess of her life. We also find her in a classic love dilemma with one gentleman’s soul, another a bad boy ‘dreamboat’.
Coming to the tech and establishment, we get a roll into the fashion world for real. We also get a sneak peek into Masaba’s kingdom of her fashion showdown, with a glimpse of her personal affairs and more. The setups look absolutely real, with Masaba’s interactions with stars, leaving the entire showreel believable on the grounds of realism.
However, it’s still fair to say that S2 comes a bit weak on its parameters. Even if we call for the very start, season 1 had Masaba Gupta in this gorgeous red satin wrap-around gown walking in utter incoherence and fervour on the empty wet streets, almost leaving us to believe the dilemmas that we the ‘millennials in the 30s’ live in, the S2 fails to establish on the similar. It looks a bit ‘pushed’, ‘not intended to’ and extremely ‘dull-witted’ somewhere. But it’s the mother-daughter duo that brings victory to the binge-watch.
So, what are you waiting for? Get your couch seized and watch this beautiful light-hearted drama only on Netflix.
IWMBuzz rates it 4 stars.