What Is the Story About?
Faadu is a story of Abhay who has burning passion for making his way out of the poverty stricken dismal hell-hole that his life is. His relentless pursuit of economic upgradation tears his desire for true love. He is an angry poet and dreamer who dreams to weave his own rags to riches story. In this tumultuous and uncertain journey of ambition, recklessness, need and greed, he falls in love with Manjiri, a poetess with an idealistic way of life. Will Abhay eventually choose love or lean towards money and the troubles that come by? Faadu tries to quest the monolith that is ‘self-written destiny’ because sometimes what you write for yourself might simply go wrong to no point of return.
Performances?
Parvail Gulati and Saiyami Kher are good at places. To be more precise, the duo does churn out generously internalised performances when they’re given material to work with, but also feels miscast sometimes. Their chemistry doesnt really work, but there’s indeed a genuine-ness in the way they emote and communicate even when the narrative does bare minimum to sell the love-story.
Analysis?
Ashwini Iyer Tiwari‘s Faadu – A Love Story, written by Saumya Joshi is a clueless attempt to dissect drive and borders of ambition. It’s equally clueless when it comes to treating its central subject, i.e its love story. For a series that tries to dismantle the monolith belief of self-written destinies, the writing does barely anything rooted and believable.
What starts off as a story that talks a lot about where the protagonists of the story hail from, the protagonists fall for each other unbelievably quickly like a Karan Johar movie. Not to forget how ‘poverty is romanticized’ under the garb of poetry to bring the duo closer to each other. This is quite ironical for a series that attempts to tackle the grittiness and rawness of the ground reality of a third-world country. That itself shows how far from reality are the makers.
The characters of Faadu: A Love Story are pointlessly delusional and reckless, dumb and unreasonable. The writing does barely anything to flesh out a love-story, despite calling it one. Instead, simply writes a woman who helplessly sees the man in her life rise and fall, unable to find her own ground or come across as a modern woman with a mind of her own. The entire series over a course of 11 elongated episodes pens a nauseating love affair Abhay has with money.
There’s nothing more exhausting than irrelevant, prolonged scenes that dont even gel well being imposed in any film or series for that matter. Faadu – A Love Story literally has so many sequences that contribute nothing significant to the story under the disguise of philosophy and poetry. After a point it gets beyond exhausting.
The actors do well when they have material to work with, but aren’t the right fits for the socio-economical milieu, Faadu – A Love Story goes for. Abhilash Thapliyal’s performance however does belong to the mood of the film. The primary and the biggest flaw of Faadu – A Love Story is that it doesn’t know what it aspires to be. It gets caught in the fabric of a social drama like City Lights (2014) and a gritty love-story.
In short, Faadu – A Love Story is a painstakingly boring and overstretched series that loses its steam even before it starts kicking in. Not only does the show have no solid takeaway, its excruciating to even sit throughout its entire duration.
Other Artists?
The supporting cast doesn’t actually hit the mark in here. Except Abhilash Thapliyal’s portrayal of Rocksy, Abhay’s older brother, none of them register enough. Neither do they have impactful roles in the show.
Music and Other Departments?
Santhosh Narayanan’s music in Faadu – A Love Story probably is one of its fewest strengths. Both the songs and background music sit well with the atmosphere of the series. Chandrashekhar Prajapati’s editing is however painstakingly exhausting.
Highlights?
Music
Lead Actors
Drawbacks?
Screenplay
Core Story
Editing
Did I Enjoy It?
No
Will You Recommend It?
No
Faadu A Love Story Series Review by Binged Bureau
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