‘Miss Perfect’ web series review: Disney+ Hotstar’s cheerful slice-of-life drama rides on a wafer thin storyline

‘Excellent or nothing’, is an announcement that defines a key character trait of Miss Excellent’s protagonist Lavanya Rao (Lavanya Tripathi). Snapshots of her way of life reveal her obsessive-compulsive dysfunction to maintain every little thing spic and span. At a therapist’s clinic, she adjusts the slant {photograph} on the wall, throws away a chocolate wrapper… you get the drift. For this Disney+ Hotstar Telugu net sequence, director Vishvak Khandero helms a narrative penned by Shruti Ramachandran and Francis Thomas, which unravels the drama when Lavanya offers in to the urge to wash her neighbour Rohit’s (Abijeet Duddala) condominium. 

Miss Excellent marks the online sequence debut for Vishvak (who directed the function movie Skylab). He tries to make the slim storyline participating sufficient for an eight-episode sequence of 20 to 25 minutes every and manages to ship innocent enjoyable and family-friendly viewing, because it steers away from nudity, violence and foul language. However the superfluous storyline that typically borders on absurdity doesn’t translate into a fascinating drama.

The story begins simply earlier than the primary lockdown in 2020 when Lavanya strikes to Hyderabad as a HR guide. There isn’t sufficient time to get to know the staff as issues come to a nought through the lockdown. A sprightly Jyothi (Abhignya Vuthaluru), Lavanya’s prepare dinner who aspires to be a playback singer, is caught in a containment zone and requests her additionally to tell Rohit, one of many neighbours the place she is a househelp, of her scenario. When Lavanya knocks on Rohit’s door, her tendency to tidy up will get the higher of her and he errors her to be a househelp as she cleans up his messy lounge. The comedy scenario works since we all know Lavanya’s obsession with cleanliness within the first episode. 

Nonetheless, when this charade continues it begins to get foolish. By and by an unlikely romance blooms and Rohit makes one of the best use of his curiosity in cooking to impress Lavanya, alias househelp Lakshmi. The kitchen and eating desk conversations make the romance parts charming. However I couldn’t assist questioning why an achieved HR skilled like Lavanya would wrestle a lot to inform Rohit the reality. All that discuss she has together with her good friend about white lies isn’t sufficient to maintain us invested within the proceedings for lengthy.

The parts through which Jyothi, accompanied by her youthful brother who desires to be a YouTuber, and the condominium complicated’s watchman (Mahesh Vitta) embark on a mission to search out the reality about Rohit and a mysterious househelp permit extra room for comedy. 

What makes issues barely fascinating is Jyothi’s vivacious characterisation and her journey as an aspiring singer. An unique composition by Prashanth Vihari turns out to be useful to take the story additional. One other subplot involving Lavanya’s father, Gokul Rao (Harshavardhan), and retired principal Rajyalakshmi (Jhansi) as an older couple giving romance a second likelihood additionally perks up the proceedings. 

Regardless of all this, the restricted scope of the storyline makes the eight episodes really feel stretched. There isn’t sufficient to make us root for the characters. 

Lavanya, Abhignya and Abhijeet do the honours for his or her elements with sincerity and Jhansi and Harshavardhan are enjoyable to look at because the older couple. The manufacturing design, music and cinematography are in sync with the sunny disposition of the sequence. 

Miss Excellent is enjoyable whereas it lasts. It doesn’t have a lot to make for a memorable watch although.