Sweet Kaaram Coffee Web Series Review: Lakshmi, Madhoo Starrer Leaves A Warm Aftertaste – Zoom TV

Posted on July 7, 2023

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Though this gently feminist nudge to the basic Lata Mangeshkar track, Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamannah Hai, follows too many tropes of the style, Candy Kaaram Espresso is eminently likeable, saliently for the trio of feminine protagonists particularly the timeless Laxmi who performs the Feisty Grandma, which over time has turn into as a lot of a cliché as a Grumpy Grandpa and a Dreamer Mother.

Dreamer Mother is Madhoo who bounces again with a surprisingly lived-in delicate efficiency as a spouse and mom taken with no consideration perpetually, longing to flee the drudgery and humiliation of invisibility in her family.

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Dreamer Mother’s daughter is Niveditha, performed with intuitive affection by Santhy Balachandran, an aspiring cricketer who has simply damaged up together with her boyfriend, a nice sufficient bloke who doesn’t need a cricketer for a spouse.

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Nivedhitha’s father, that’s Kaveri’s husband and Sundari’s son, is portrayed as a weak petulant patriarchal determine who controls the ladies in his life and pampers the son who doesn’t give a rattling about him.

As soon as we recover from the triteness and the supremely smug cockiness of the feminist screenplay, we will transfer forward for an gratifying breezy highway net collection the place the three ladies whoop it up, typically with extreme zest and an excessive amount of stress on trying picture-perfect; three ladies on the run from the oppressive males of their lives. What a shot, yaar!

A number of the girls’ purported enjoyable appears too manufactured on the storyboard. The three feminine leads steer the plot by the plotholes, guaranteeing that we by no means lose curiosity of their fun-filled adventures (which are literally extra enjoyable for them than for us, the spectators).

In some unspecified time in the future, grandma Sundari takes a intentionally incorrect U Flip to Pune as an alternative of their vacation vacation spot Goa. Which I assumed was so aptly symbolic: the plot retains swerving off the highway for pointless diversions. Notably embarrassing and awkward is a visit a rural Marathi household’s humble jhopdi which appears like a touristic invitation for rural Maharashtra with the actors behaving like actors in a vacationer brochure.

However then there may be Laxmi. We nonetheless keep in mind her because the joyous Julie singing Bhool Gayi Sab Kuch Yaad Nahin Ab Kuch. She makes us neglect and forgive all of the trite trespasses of a feminine highway movie that has its coronary heart in the correct place. And by no means thoughts the highway map.

Overview By – Subhash Okay Jha

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