Bombay Begums
On: Netflix
 Creator: Alankrita Shrivastava
Cast: Pooja Bhatt, Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash
Rating:***

Well begun is half done. As is with Bombay Begums. By which I mean it starts off well (first three episodes), and therefore you’re intrigued enough to carry on. Even when it peters out (final three episodes) into predictable, or slightly preposterous plot-points, on occasion. 

And this has everything to do with setting up a world, to draw you in, rather than satiating you with a story alone, to keep you seated, regardless. What’s that world we’re in? Of working/independent Indian women, of varied classes, to start with. Bombay Begums is infinitely more about Begums, than Bombay itself.