Ajeeb Daastaans – Worth watching ?
Netflix India is famous for making unique movies and again made another anthology of four twisted short stories under the production of Karan Johar and Apoorva Mehta dwelling about revenge, love, entitlement, jealousy in the span of 2 hours plus minutes. Every story ends in a shocking revelation which itself is enough to watch this set of movies.
1. Majnu – Shashank Khaitan (Director):
A wedding carried out just as a business arrangement in a large mansion puts the girl in a state with no marital happiness where she meets a guy with mystery around him.
Fatima Sana Shaikh gives a nuanced performance and she has never looked this beautiful before in any other movie. Jaideep Ahlawat gets to play a role quite different from his usual style and he aced in the last few minutes. Armaan Ralhan, the new kid in the block is here to stay and he gets his act right. Shashank Khaitan has done a good job of presenting a story in an interesting manner that holds your interest right from start to end.
2. Khilauna – Raj Mehta (Director):
A story about a cunning manipulative maid is embroiled in trouble. The story is stitched in a way that the mystery is well managed and you keep your guessing hat on.
Nushrat Bharucha does a decent job as a maid. Abhishek Banerjee is good but seems repetitive from other movies of his. The climax gives you a chill down your spine but the way how they showed the possibility of crime carried out is next to impossible.
3. Geeli Pucchi – Neeraj Ghaywan (Director)
A tale of friendship between two factory worker and how they learn about each other frames the story.
Konkona Sen Sharma as rough and tough tomboy character has literally just nailed it. Even the way she has captured the mannerisms makes your believe in her talent even more. Aditi Rao Hydari as simple housewife is adorable and plays her part equally well that you can’t take your eyes off her. The camaraderie between leads is sight to behold but climax is heartbreaking.
4. Ankahi – Kayoze Irani (Director)
It is one of the most matured story among the lot which depicts story of deaf and dumb guy and a married woman.
The story does evoke right emotion and credits has to be given to the leads. Shefali Shah is one of the most underrated actress and with this movie too she is just mere perfection. Manav Kaul is equally good in his part. If there is anything to be complaint about then it’s ending which seemed forced to just to fall under the same category of other story or movie title.
stories are different and follow the same topic which is the complexities of human nature. the story delivery is exceptional and keep the viewers hooked till the end but we somehow felt the stories could have been more better and clearer but again it is the beauty of human complexities that it is not clear and maybe this is what they tried to portray. The good thing about this movie is that they chose versatile actors who are not very famous but amazing in what they do. A lot more was expected from the movie but somehow it came as a medicore movie. you can watch it for a good time pass but we would definitely not call it a blockbuster! 6/10.