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Directed by Shujaat Saudagar, Bambai Meri Jaan is a 10 episodes web series with 30-50 minutes running time.
It depicts the life span of Dara Kadri (Avinash Tiwary), the D Company founder, from his childhood days till he leaves for Dubai to escape his arrest warrant by Mumbai Police.
Ismail Kadri (Kay Kay Menon), an honest and devout Mumbai cop turned gangster Haji's (Saurabh Sachdeva) accomplice turned spiritual recluse, plays his father and narrator of the series.
Kay Kay has a crucial role and he has played it brilliantly, mostly with stoic silence and one liners. His acting in the series is beautifully layered and perhaps the best of his acting career!!
The web series has multiple important characters and all have been casted wonderfully and enacted effectively. In fact their combined acting prowess has surpassed the storyline and script!
The entire series is embedded with Mumbaiya expletives and at one point the blood and gore becomes too much to handle.
Overall, the series is familiar, engaging, entertaining and well edited with top class production design.
It depicts the life span of Dara Kadri (Avinash Tiwary), the D Company founder, from his childhood days till he leaves for Dubai to escape his arrest warrant by Mumbai Police.
Ismail Kadri (Kay Kay Menon), an honest and devout Mumbai cop turned gangster Haji's (Saurabh Sachdeva) accomplice turned spiritual recluse, plays his father and narrator of the series.
Kay Kay has a crucial role and he has played it brilliantly, mostly with stoic silence and one liners. His acting in the series is beautifully layered and perhaps the best of his acting career!!
The web series has multiple important characters and all have been casted wonderfully and enacted effectively. In fact their combined acting prowess has surpassed the storyline and script!
The entire series is embedded with Mumbaiya expletives and at one point the blood and gore becomes too much to handle.
Overall, the series is familiar, engaging, entertaining and well edited with top class production design.
Introduction:
Missing (2023), a screenlife mystery thriller is an anthology sequel to Searching (2018).
"Screenlife or computer screen film is a genre of visual storytelling where all the events are shown on a computer, tablet or smartphone screen."
Plot:
Los Angeles (USA) based teenager June Allen's (Storm Reid) mother Grace Allen (Nia Long) leaves for a week long trip to Cartagena (Colombia) with her boyfriend Kevin (Ken Leung).
June is supposed to receive them on their return but not only they don't arrive on the due date but also turn incommunicado, leaving June puzzled, confused and scared.
With limited money at her disposal and only her mother's lawyer friend Heather (Amy Landecker) to turn for assistance, who eventually turns up dead, June uses her smart brain and a bevy of online apps and services to finally locate her mother and in the process unravels few shocking truths about her parents.
Analysis:
It's quite amusing to follow June's trail of online actions wherein she meddles through assorted Google services like maps, e-mail etc.; goes through different chat transcripts to find clues; accesses public cameras to locate her mother's whereabouts; mobilizes the FBI attachment in to the consolate; hires Javier (Joaquim de Almeida), a Colombian gig worker for offline actions, while constantly decoding the passwords of the missing persons on different apps!!
It's quite unbelievable to witness how precisely our life movements are being recorded via our digital footprints and assorted CCTV recordings!!
It's eerie to realize how modern technology and online apps can come to your rescue even when you are confined and locked in an unknown deserted location with no cell phone at your disposal!!
Watch out the movie's climax to see it all happen.
Conclusion:
It's not a movie with glamorous star cast or pulsating action with hi-fi gizmos, but it's an intelligent movie with a reality check.
You will understand it better only if you are - computer savvy, used to working with multiple apps and screens at the same time and aware of the usual password recovery methods.
If you have not yet seen a screenlife movie, then do watch it for an altogether new experience.
You can also watch it otherwise. It's a nicely made film.
Missing (2023), a screenlife mystery thriller is an anthology sequel to Searching (2018).
"Screenlife or computer screen film is a genre of visual storytelling where all the events are shown on a computer, tablet or smartphone screen."
Plot:
Los Angeles (USA) based teenager June Allen's (Storm Reid) mother Grace Allen (Nia Long) leaves for a week long trip to Cartagena (Colombia) with her boyfriend Kevin (Ken Leung).
June is supposed to receive them on their return but not only they don't arrive on the due date but also turn incommunicado, leaving June puzzled, confused and scared.
With limited money at her disposal and only her mother's lawyer friend Heather (Amy Landecker) to turn for assistance, who eventually turns up dead, June uses her smart brain and a bevy of online apps and services to finally locate her mother and in the process unravels few shocking truths about her parents.
Analysis:
It's quite amusing to follow June's trail of online actions wherein she meddles through assorted Google services like maps, e-mail etc.; goes through different chat transcripts to find clues; accesses public cameras to locate her mother's whereabouts; mobilizes the FBI attachment in to the consolate; hires Javier (Joaquim de Almeida), a Colombian gig worker for offline actions, while constantly decoding the passwords of the missing persons on different apps!!
It's quite unbelievable to witness how precisely our life movements are being recorded via our digital footprints and assorted CCTV recordings!!
It's eerie to realize how modern technology and online apps can come to your rescue even when you are confined and locked in an unknown deserted location with no cell phone at your disposal!!
Watch out the movie's climax to see it all happen.
Conclusion:
It's not a movie with glamorous star cast or pulsating action with hi-fi gizmos, but it's an intelligent movie with a reality check.
You will understand it better only if you are - computer savvy, used to working with multiple apps and screens at the same time and aware of the usual password recovery methods.
If you have not yet seen a screenlife movie, then do watch it for an altogether new experience.
You can also watch it otherwise. It's a nicely made film.
The storyline is one of the usual action thrillers, but it's a well made and crisp movie, most of which is picturized on the protagonist aka the mother aka Jennifer Lopez, who impresses to the T.
She plays a practical non-empathatic loner with superb survival techniques. Living in the shadow of her past of being in military forces and then in arms cartel, she lives all alone in an old cabin in an ice capped Alaska region and hunts animals for food.
She bears all of this hardship to stay out of radar of her two ex arms ring associates cum lovers who are presently out for her blood.
She sacrificed the joys of motherhood and agreed to put her daughter in foster care, right from birth, so that she stays safe.
However, when upon turning 12, the daughter is no more safe, the mother comes out of her seclusion and leaves no stone unturned in destroying the enemies and ensuring her child's safety, not once but twice.
Before the second attack, she even trains her daughter the survival techniques required to stay alive and safe.
The direction is crisp. The production designing is impressive. The cinematography of the vast ice capped region is beautiful.
And so is the mother-daughter bond during training and henceforth. It's different from the usual mushy ones.
Jennifer Lopez looks sharp, fit and realistic in combat scenes. She ably conveys controlled emotions for her daughter upon meeting and spending time with her, only after she has turned 12!!
She doesn't resort to hysteria or unnecessary dramatics or any other emotion display that is impractical for a hardened loner assassin.
Overall, the movie is a good tribute to the recently concluded Mother's Day.
She plays a practical non-empathatic loner with superb survival techniques. Living in the shadow of her past of being in military forces and then in arms cartel, she lives all alone in an old cabin in an ice capped Alaska region and hunts animals for food.
She bears all of this hardship to stay out of radar of her two ex arms ring associates cum lovers who are presently out for her blood.
She sacrificed the joys of motherhood and agreed to put her daughter in foster care, right from birth, so that she stays safe.
However, when upon turning 12, the daughter is no more safe, the mother comes out of her seclusion and leaves no stone unturned in destroying the enemies and ensuring her child's safety, not once but twice.
Before the second attack, she even trains her daughter the survival techniques required to stay alive and safe.
The direction is crisp. The production designing is impressive. The cinematography of the vast ice capped region is beautiful.
And so is the mother-daughter bond during training and henceforth. It's different from the usual mushy ones.
Jennifer Lopez looks sharp, fit and realistic in combat scenes. She ably conveys controlled emotions for her daughter upon meeting and spending time with her, only after she has turned 12!!
She doesn't resort to hysteria or unnecessary dramatics or any other emotion display that is impractical for a hardened loner assassin.
Overall, the movie is a good tribute to the recently concluded Mother's Day.