Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives Web Review - Insta on TV, innit?

On NetflixCastMaheep Kapoor Neelam Bhavana Pandey Seema KhanRating CantDont lie Im so gonna check viewership numbers with Netflix if theyre willing to share for this show two minutes counts as a view Because so many of youre gonna secretly cringewatch this And I just get to call it work rather than get snooty on socialmedia like its potential audience hasmdashonly after the trailer dropped As if left to themselves they meditate on Tarkovsky and Terrence Malik classics at homeFor those not like the above let me briefly acquaint you with the goingson in this semiscripted documentary series that obviously defies a rating just so you dont click on it and go WTF It is what it is Meaning a depiction of the supposedly Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives namely Maheep Kapoor Bhavana Pandey Seema Khan and Neelammdashwhose husbands Sanjay Kapoor Chunky Panday Sohail Khan were once Bollywoods leading menNeelam with actor husband Samir Soni was of course a star in her own right in the 80s90s What about these aunty socials do you get to know That Bhavana is the spiritual one Seema the muhfut loud mouth which is quite similar to Maheep who says it like it is while Neelam whos narrating this description is slightly more guardedBasically these are BFFs for twoandahalf decades running They run boutique businesses Were unsure of their balance sheets But if the extra trolling on Insta or what to pack for a holiday are indeed their chief concernsmdashguess at least for public theyre doing well in lifeCheck out the trailer ofFabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives hereThe series follows them around group activities Such as cosmetically spring cleaning a beach as our Prime Minister does Or like Sex And The City 2 2010 set in Abu Dhabimdashan allgirls trip stuck to each other in Doha This is where they get excited over discounted salemdash60 off its like a dream Im sorry that aint no fab life bubs stop it youre sounding like usWhile theyre in Bombay the camera of course conveniently glides over all the grimefilth of the street to keep it either indoors in their homes or totally accessible restaurantslounges like Ministry of Crab Estella Arth FoodhaulOkay so is this tameness the totally badnaam decadentdruggie Bollywood as a lifestyle spacemdashas against a filmmaking industrymdashthat detractors often harp about Huh unless you make too much of the fact that Chunky Panday habitually rushes to the loo every few minutes No wheres the female equivalent of a Wolf of Wall Street fabulous life you ask Can totally see how this series can be a franchise thoughmdashdone right its basically Instagram on TVAlso ReadFabulous wives of Bollywood Wives Twitter reacts to Netflixs new showThese women on screen are actually brave to have showed up knowing that they will be so easily torn to shreds further on social mediamdashif not in hushed tones among their own social peers Whats the other thing you instantly notice about them Their accents what is itmdasha strange mix of Soho and SoBo swiftly segueing into Saki Naka sometimes Blame it on the camera I guess makes the best of us slightly coyconsciousBut the series itselfmdashkinda modelled on Real Housewives of New YorkOrange CountyAtlanta or Basketball Wives etcmdashmercifully isnt quite wholly about wannabes being vacantvacuous as I had first imagined Or even a proper takejudgement on a poised polite society from the exterior that looks at perhaps the pettinesspointless within That in fact is the genre The first slightly shoddy Indian attempt of which Ive seenmdashsimilarly in the interest of hardhitting journalismmdashcalled Dilli Darlings on Zee TVOnly Karan Johar mainstream filmmaker and a man about townmdashsimultaneously straddling multiply concentric social circlesmdashcouldve pulled off this formal peek into a culture formerly known as Page 3 If this is Bigg Boss then Johar plays Bigg Boss Although the show hot on the high heels of Netflixs Masaba Masaba set in the same neighbourhoodmdashwith a series of prominent cameosmdashis perhaps closer to a reality TV version of Johars chat show Koffee With KaranUnsurprisingly the actual charm of BTS behind the scenes Bollywood only comes through the super glib and silvertongued Shah Rukh Khanmdashmaking the final 2030 minutes worth the 270 minutes that precede it SRKs wife Gauri is Queen Bee of these ladies who lunch What else did I learn more aboutParis Le Bal second word pronounced like Hindi for hair where 16 to 20yearolds from royaltyarts make a debut in high society whatever That Anupam Kher got Best Supporting Actor award for a film called Vijay over Chunky in Tezaabmdashand everybody still takes Filmfare seriouslyAnd oh that I still have a childhood crush on Neelam This show hasnt diminished that at all Her husband Samir Soni is in fact that everyguy stuck in his girlfriendsspouses close gang of gigglesmdashwith nothing to contribute but with an obligation to still be there night after night Okay this resonatesAlso ReadFabulous Lives Of 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