The Fame Game Review: This suspense drama has its moments but slow screenplay will test your patience
The Fame Game Web Series Rating: 2.5 Stars
Just watched The Fame Game web series on Netflix. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this web series.
Cast: Madhuri Dixit Nene, Sanjay Kapoor, Manav Kaul, Muskkaan Jaferi, Lakshvir Singh Saran, Suhasini Muley and Rajshri Deshpande
Director: Bejoy Nambiar & Karishma Kohli
Release Date: 25th February 2022 (Netflix)
Duration: 8 Episodes/ 42 Minutes
Story: The Fame Game kicks off with a mishap and then goes back half a year to trace the developments leading to a flashpoint that defines the series and continually leaps between past and present in the process. After returning home from a glitzy awards ceremony accompanied by her husband Nikhil More (Sanjay Kapoor), Anamika Anand (Madhuri Dixit) goes missing and she leaves no clues.
The entire family which includes her daughter Amara (Muskkaan Jaferi), son Avinash (Lakshvir Singh Saran) and mother (Suhasini Mulay). Every one is questioned by ACP Shobha Trivedi (Rajshri Deshpande) but unable to find any evidence. Anamika is a superstar under the spotlight but as any other woman, juggles multiple roles as a mother, wife, homemaker and actress. Whole public and media is after this news.
The police officer who has thorny personal issues of her own to deal with in a male-dominated force, claims that she does not watch movies. As the investigation progresses, Shobha, under great pressure to find the actress quickly and startlingly blunt with her questions, not only develops a keen interest in Anamika’s chequered life, but also becomes an empathetic interpreter of the choices the super-successful lady has had to make to get to the top and stay there.
The film goes back and forth as Shobha unearths little-known facts of Anamika Anand and her family and her career while individual characters recall the personal encounters that they have had with her over the past six months. The cop moves from the task of finding where the lost actress is to trying to figure out who she was. As Shobha wends her way through her findings about Anamika’s ties with her husband, mother and children, her personal and professional relationship with one-time co-star Manish Khanna (Manav Kaul).
The sudden emergence of an obsessive young fan Madhav (Gagan Arora) also raise the question. Who is behind the Anamika kidnapping and will she able to come back. Who is Madhav and is he kidnapper. To know the truth you have to watch the series.
Positives
1. Background Music
2. Performances
3. Story
4. Dialogues
Negatives
1. Length
2. Slow Screenplay
3. Direction
4. Climax
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I have watched the trailer of this series planned to watch in free time as trailer looks good and also its a digital debut of Madhuri Dixit who had been one of biggest superstar of our country.
Anamika Anand goes missing after an awards function. The episodes move back and forth in time, revealing a little about Anamika’s life in the past, while clouding her present as police officer Shobha investigates the case with a palpable dislike for the Bollywood crowd. Shobha’s antipathy to the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown slowly morphs into a grudging and warm respect for Anamika as she uncovers the actor’s past.
It starts off on a promising note and well establishes the world it is meant to be in but starts to fall apart too quickly. An ex-lover, a crazy fan, a painter and a controlling mother make up for intriguing elements of the narrative but never quite hit the mark. it is the confusion among individual stories and unanswered questions that fail to make the larger picture gripping enough. For a show primarily based on the investigation of the disappearance of a superstar, The Fame Game’s one entire episode does not touch upon the progress of the case.
The Fame Game definitely has its moments, especially when it examines the wages and transience of movie stardom and the price that a celeb has to pay for staying in the public eye while negotiating the challenge of keeping her family together. The Fame Game is a mixed bag. There are good things and some bothering ones too. My View on this web-series Time Pass only if you are fan of Madhuri Dixit.
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