What Is the Story About?
The story follows 5 new medical Interns who join the RK Hospitals group under the guidance and mentorship of Dr. Radhi. Dr. Radhi is a resilient yet workaholic doctor with rather tough ways of working and training fellow interns. As the interns navigate through the unpredictable highs and lows of their medical career, the series sheds light on how it’s not always bed of roses for Doctors and that mostly there’s a literal lack of life in their family lives.
Performances?
In the first four episodes of Heart Beat, none of the actors make a mark. Deepa Balu plays Dr.Radhi and is probably the only seasoned actor in the entire cast. Not that the actor gets enough time to shine, but she aptly carries the aura of a strict and head-strong Senior Doctor Radhi. The supporting cast has unfunny comic timing and rather bland emotive faces. The sloppy and bland script adds furthermore to the mediocrity.
Analysis
Disney+Hotstar’s Heart Beat is a medical drama directed by Deepak Sundarrajan. The series follows the complex web of life and work that entangles the interns and senior doctors as they face challenges and cases in the eponymous RK Hospital. Reminiscent of several Hollywood and South Korean Medical dramas Heart Beat attempts a take at the genre in Tamil language.
Over a span of four short episodes within 30 minutes duration, Heart Beat introduces Dr. Radhi (specialisation not revealed) and her family and 5 newly joined interns in the RK Hospital. Predictably like any medical drama, Heart Beat intends to follow a new case or new medical emergency every episode and tackle the complicated lives doctors have.
In the first four episodes, we could see how strict is Dr. Radhi and how Dr Reenu ends up being at the wrong side every time she interacts with Dr. Radhi. Cut out from the same cloth as Grey’s Anatomy (not in a good way), the series shabbily masquerades as a medical drama by merely throwing unverified medical terms around.
Heart Beat also infuses unwatchable daily-soap melodrama to its characters. Lest forget the cheap production value and bland cast that makes things worse. The dialogues are unfunny and the humour never works. The drama is unrealistic and acting is never there.
In short, Heart Beat is a tedious watch. It’s a mere waste of resources as the makers neither deliver a memorable show nor serve the medical realness. The episodes are disjointed and characters are not worth rooting for. In short a medical drama that cannot be saved.
Music and Other Departments?
Disney Plus’ Heart Beat is an attempt in the medico-drama genre. However, the show fails in every department and let alone being on par with South Korean Medical dramas like Hospital Playlist or Grey’s Anatomy, Heart Beat even has a caricaturish daily soap level execution. Neither the music, nor the camera work nor dialogues are any good.
Highlights?
Nothing much
Drawbacks?
Sloppy script
Cast
Disappointing production design
unfunny dialogues
Daily Soap level melodrama
Did I Enjoy It?
No
Will You Recommend It?
No
Heart Beat Series Review by Binged Bureau
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