What Is the Story About?
Siblings Dev and Kalki are bestowed with the responsibility of renovating an old resort in picturesque Uttarakhand by their super wealthy grandfather. The siblings need to battle it out, get the resort fully functional and win over their grandfather’s wealth in the process.
How will privileged Dev & Kalki adjust to their now changed surroundings? Will they successfully get the resort back in business? What other adventures and surprises await the duo at Panchmauli? Who will eventually win the inheritance race? Life Hill Gayi follows the trials and tribulations siblings of a dysfunctional family undergo to finally learn their lessons.
Performances?
Predictably, Divyenndu is the star of the show as he plays the snooty, mildly narcissistic and delusional spoilt brat Dev with aplomb. He never steps out of the idiocy of his character and cleverly lands even lame jokes with charm.
Vinay Pathak, quite the seasoned actor that he is makes you crave for his scenes each time he goes missing onscreen. However, his character is very poorly written with barely any potential growth.
Kusha Kapila gets the brash and bossy entrepreneur bit quite right attitude-wise, but easily overacts and spoils the fun. However, Mukti Mohan is a revelation in the show. She is a breathe of fresh air and proves her mettle as a fine actor besides her proven dancing abilities.
Analysis
Written by Jasmeet Singh Bhatia and directed by Prem Mistry, Life Hill Gayi is a dysfunctional family-comedy-drama that follows two siblings fighting tooth and nail to win over their grandfather’s wealth. However, the show is very much on the light-weight front.
Life Hill Gayi opens to Dev, Kalki and their father Himalaya travelling to a hill-station in Uttarakhand named Panchmauli. They reach an almost abandoned bungalow and meet their rich grandfather via a small TV-screen. He tasks them with the responsibility of renovating and functioning the bungalow which was once a huge resort. Add to it, he announces his inheritance to the winner of the task.
Life Hill Gayi has a very basic and extremely relatable premise. A super wealthy old man and two irresponsible heirs who barely know a thing about running a successful business. Overburdened by his son’s inability (Himalaya), the old man decides to choose a heir by judging his grandchildren on the basis of their performance in this hill-high responsibility.
Both Dev and Kalki, stripped of their wealth and privileges now need to work on themselves. They also need to get the hotel up and running in a small himalayan town that is alien to their ways of living. From changing the decor to employing staff to increasing footfalls, the tasks at hand seem never-ending. And so is the relentless cycle of chaos.
However, instead of churning a story that has cohesive ends, root-worthy characters and a convincing culmination, Life Hill Gayi ends up as a poor imitation of shows like Schitts Creek and Panchayat. The writing has a lot of loose ends and tries to add a lot into the mix. For example, it tries to underline class-divide, small-town horror fables, regressive beliefs, serial murder, alien locals and a lot more but does due justice to none of the sub-themes.
To conclude, Life Hill Gayi is really unfunny, forgettable and boring. It gets watchable partly because of its charming cast and eye-catchy cinematography. It tries to do a lot of things for the worse and ends up as a show that should have only been in the drafts.
Music and Other Departments?
Abhijit Vaghani’s score for Life Hill Gayi is nothing exemplary per se. Although the music and score is in sync with the genre, it makes little to no impact. Akash Agarwal’s camera captures the picturesque beauty of Uttarakhand’s Panchmauli village with so much adoration and is the only saving grace of the show almost all the time.
Highlights?
Divyenndu, Vinay Pathak and Mukti Mohan
Cinematography
Drawbacks?
Lame one-liners
Inconsistent screenplay
Try-hard comic gags
Forced moral lessons
Did I Enjoy It?
No
Will You Recommend It?
No
Life Hill Gayi Series Review by Binged Bureau
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