Matargashti
Drama Hindi
Dhara's plan to explore her sexuality puts her at odds with her horrified father, who becomes determined to sabotage her love life.
| Cast: | Rajesh Kumar, Adrija Sinha, Saumya Uniyal, Shakti Kumar, Tulika Banerjee, |
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| Director: | Siddhant Chavan |
All Guild Reviews of "Matargashti"
A Warm and Watchable Father-Daughter Comedy
The bittersweet five-episode series revolves around a studious teenager who decides to lose her virginity, much to the chagrin of her single father
It’s easy to suggest that a low-key dramedy about girlhood feels refreshing because it’s written entirely by women. But that’s a generalisation of sorts. We’ve seen women-led shows behave like their sensationalist counterparts in an aggressive tit-for-tat way; they tend to be reactionary — a statement to all testosterone-driven productions — rather than natural. The reason Matargashti works is because it refuses to look like the defiant story of a 19-year-old girl. It doesn’t pretend to be the unapologetic female (or feminist) version of those sex comedies featuring funny boys trying to lose their virginity. If anything, it reclaims the diversity of middle-class conflict from the clutches of male-created TVF family universes. You almost don’t expect the setting to be Lucknow. It unfolds like a lightweight antidote, not a conscious subversion, to a genre largely dominated by men.
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