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A mixed bag
When I first started watching the show, I wasn’t sure about what to expect of it, and oddly enough I still don’t. With glaring inconsistency all throughout the script, ‘Afsos’ is a mixed bag of sometimes clever but other times pointless dialogues, characters and plotlines.
Nakul (Gulshan Devaiah) is our anti-hero. He is a hopeless and miserable soul whose ineptitude is so vast that he can’t even kill himself. After many failed suicide attempts, he contracts his death to Maria (Ratnabali Bhattacharjee) who runs an assisted suicide agency. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, the story takes one turn after the other and ends up as a stew of half-baked ideas replete with... |