SonyLIV web series shows another face of parenthood
Within the SonyLIV present Pet Puraan, “Excellent news” has 4 legs and a heat stomach that calls for rubs. The title of the Marathi-language sequence is a intelligent play on phrases – it refers each to a childfree couple and the domesticated creatures they invite into their lives.
Finance government Aditi (Sai Tamhankar) and chef Atul (Lalit Prabhakar) have been blissfully married for 4 years. Is the supply of their happiness the truth that they don’t have kids? That definitely appears to be the case, however their kin gained’t go away them alone, particularly since Aditi’s youthful sister Anjali (Deepti Lele) has a swollen stomach.
A cat-owning good friend converts the pet-averse couple to the trigger. Parag (Rushi Manohar) is the type of animal lover who refers to his pet as his little one and chooses his kitty over a girlfriend.
Aditi and Atul bumble their means in the direction of the sunshine, visiting a crummy pet store and a shelter run by the exacting Ms D’Souza (Rasika Agashe) alongside the way in which. After the couple take within the simply distracted kitten Baku and the mischievous Golden Retriever Vyanku, they be taught that parenthood has many meanings.
The sequence has been created and directed by Dnyanesh Zoting and written by him and Digant Patil. Situational comedy and fuzzy romantic moments accompany the couple’s transformation from sceptics to believers. Aditi is a goner from the second she begins mush-talking to Parag’s haughty feline, a nice specimen of the species. Atul’s conversion is a bit delayed however as soon as he takes his vows, he too begins insisting that the world cease referring to Vyanku as a canine.
However a canine is what Vyanku is, and a good-looking boy at that. Baku too is the type of big-eyed critter whose each transgression is pardoned when she lets out a resolute meow.
Restrictions on the depiction of animals in movies and reveals has led to using computer-generated creatures as an alternative. No matter else Pet Puraan achieves, it’s a sheer reduction to look at flesh-and-blood creatures run about as an alternative of fake-looking objects that declare to be representatives of the animal kingdom.
The actors are hardly proof against the charms of their co-stars. There may be apparent glee on the faces of Sai Tamhankar and Lalit Prabhakar as their characters fuss over and cuddle the brand new additions to their nuclear unit. The peerlessly matched actors excel in different methods too, displaying the type of equation we’d anticipate from a real-life couple. Their terrific coupling ensures for all of the fussing over the Baku-Vyanku combo, it’s the people of Pet Puraan who matter probably the most.
Aditi is the extra forceful of the 2, ceaselessly spoiling for a struggle. Atul is the overgrown adolescent within the relationship, a humanoid model of Vyanku in some senses who melts Aditi together with his infectious boyishness. The forged contains Satish Alekar in a hilarious cameo because the constructing’s curmudgeonly secretary,
The tone is ceaselessly mild, even when a number of the themes will not be. The six-episode sequence pokes enjoyable at social expectations fairly than taking deep stabs. (Among the Marathi humour is misplaced within the subtitling, which doesn’t adequately translate the intent and import of the dialogue.)
The strain dropped at bear on {couples} who don’t have kids just because they don’t need to, the inter-caste coupling between Aditi and Atul, the near-obsessive love showered on pets – the sequence operates in a register of amusement and consternation. The result’s a mild-mannered entertainer that may be wolfed down in a single sitting in the identical means that Vyanku and Baku assault their meals.
