Modern Love Mumbai-2022

Introduction 

Modern Love Mumbai is an Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy anthology Amazon Prime Video series produced by Pritish Nandy, that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 13, 2022. Its episodes run from 40 to 45 minutes.

Modern Love Mumbai is the Mumbai chapter based on the American anthology series Modern Love.

Modern Love Mumbai is a captivating web series that delves into the complexities of modern relationships set in the vibrant city of Mumbai. Inspired by real-life experiences, the show explores various aspects of love, dating, and relationships in a contemporary urban context. With its relatable characters and engaging storylines, Modern Love Mumbai takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, unravelling the intricacies of love, heartbreak, and the pursuit of happiness in the bustling cityscape.

Table Of Contents

• Details
• Plot 
• Release
• Review
• Casting
• Crew
• Character Analysis
• Seasons
• Behind The Scenes
• Award
• Conclusion
• How to Book A Personalised Celebrity Message From A Celebrity Similar To Celebrities From Modern Love Mumbai on Tring?

Details

Plot 

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Release

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Modern Love Mumbai is an Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy anthology Amazon Prime Video series produced by Pritish Nandy, that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 13, 2022.

Review

About love and loss, self-proclaimed softie Ed Sheeran has once voiced his perspective on it, in his laconic style, saying people, indeed, fall in love in mysterious ways. Interestingly, it is this same Sheeran who has also nihilistically declared that the worst things in life come free to us. Love included. So, then again, what exactly is love? Siri tells me that as she ‘understands it’, love refers to a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude. One simple term and so many distinct meanings of it: none wrong or more suited than the other. ‘Modern Love Mumbai’ shows similar thoughts, albeit less precision in a few parts.

Adapted for the film from the New York Times’s crowd-favourite column of the same name, the series—with each episode timed at 35-45 minutes approximately—pretty much follows the formula of its predecessors. Six directors, six stories, and six views, all of which melt into one in the closing episode. The series’ two of the finest are by female filmmakers who are making enormous splashes in the cinematic puddle with their no-holds-barred storytelling. In Alankrita Shrivastava’s ‘My Beautiful Wrinkles’, a bold and bitter Dilbar Sodhi (Sarika) has no qualms about fingering off to a much younger, feather-moustached business analyst Kunal (Danesh Razvi) but God forbid her pals find for love in older men. This chapter outs the hypocrisies existing in most of us without truly criticising the hypocrite. That, mixed with Razvi’s naive eyes and Sarika’s, well, Sarika-like charm, and you get a story that’s a small piece of what could have been a full-length novel. Shrivastava, who has never shied away from sexuality across all tiers of the social ladder, shares similar sentiments here. The wrinkles, which is a metaphor for neglected trauma, are very beautiful and wholesome in their presentation: painting-esque shots, arthouse faces, and the evident warmth between Razvi and Sarika.

Now, on to the second one, which is Shonali Bose’s ‘Raat Rani’ (queen of the night). When a young, married Kashmiri Lali (Fatima Sana Shaikh) is left by her ‘bored’ husband Lutfi (Bhupendra Jadawat) in a dingy apartment in suburban Mumbai, this firecracker of a lady, after much comprehension, crosses two flyovers: a literal one, and a metaphorical one that is anchored to her own society-imposed demons pertaining to love and ‘off! Those damn rules!’ Bose, being a great storyteller and an enthusiastic advocate of the emancipation of women, addresses the problematic elephant in the room head-on: triple Talaq. Bose’s concept of a lower fortunate woman moving above her ‘pitiable’ circumstances wouldn’t have come to life if not for Fatima Sana Shaikh, who, unsurprisingly, is wonderful.

The relatively disappointing ones include Hansal Mehta’s socio-religious comedy ‘Baai’ and Nupur Asthana’s ‘Cutting Chai’. Mehta’s Baai (Tanuja) is an old matriarch who’s gone through Gujarat riots, but her oppressive family is persuaded she doesn’t have the heart to comprehend her grandson Maanzu (Pratik Gandhi) being gay. In Indian society, however, it is often the parents who feel sentiments for you: ‘love’ the boy they chose for you to marry, blaming all the impending deaths on the ‘family disgrace’ that is the gay son. Mehta’s understanding of the difficulties of an average middle-class household is right on, his delivery of same-sex love is, however, absurd. After a point, Mehta himself sees the built-in difficulty with the facade—adds 100 songs to mask away the awkward kisses and make-out sesh between Brar and Gandhi. Individually, though, these two are great. Gandhi’s common-man charm as Maanzu is a tangible embodiment of small-town attractions. Brar, on the other hand, is in a hopeless love relationship with food. This chef must genuinely like his job to the core for a mere mention of it sparks love in his eyes. Their chemistry is weird, and to put it bluntly: non-existent.

Likewise, Asthana’s ‘Cutting Chai’ has an ever-adorable Arshad Warsi (Danny) casting light on chauvinistic men that are supported by choice-reluctant spouses like Chitrangda Singh’s writer-in-progress Latika. There’s nothing unlawful about re-delivering an already delivered package (here: the tale) but put in a fresh aspect, experimental dialogues yaar… Singh is boldly underconfident in her hunt for significance (in life) while grieving for (gone) time. The story just doesn’t ‘cut’ it for them.

I have a lot of feelings about Masaba Gupta and Ritwik Bhowmik’s ‘I Adore Thane’. To begin with, was Thane always this delicious and alluring? Anyway, Dhruv Sehgal’s predilection for infusing a feeling of normalcy in relationships (on screen, that is) resonates in these two polar-opposite personalities. One is s a landscape designer; Bandra girl. Another, a BSc graduate, sarkaari naukar; I-love-Thane lad. Sehgal constructs a love story based on a universal longing for human connection: not an Instagram relationship, as in a tactile bond involving actual emotions. This urban romance may not be Sehgal’s finest (considering he has given us ‘Little Things’) but there are plenty of chuckles to share. Gupta and Bhowmick are natural and effortlessly comfortable as an odd combination, in a classically weird environment to fall in love with.

Vishal Bharadwaj’s flair for realism is wedded to his newfound interest in humour in ‘Mumbai Dragon’. His figures had moved from China in the 30s and had called India home ever since. Yeh Chini tujhse acha Hindi bolta hai, shouts an unaware racist music producer. Home, therefore, is actually an emotion and not a geographical construct for Ming (Meiyang Chang) and his fiercely territorial mother (played by Yeo Yann Yann). Ming aspires to be a singer and has a Gujarati lover; his mother considers the second half of his rebellion ‘a vegetarian witch’. Bharadwaj, a virtuoso at mixing global societal challenges with Indian sensibilities, underscores the boundaryless interactions that Asian youngsters often share with their folks. And the impact it has on millennials and Gen-Z: the theme, which somewhat reflects actor Chang’s own life, somehow eludes all the aspects that make Bharadwaj productions, unmistakably B-H-A-R-A-D-W-A-J. Not that it is not hilarious (something that the director was primarily striving for) or paradoxical in tone, it’s only that the signature manoeuvres are lacking, which, in turn, doesn’t have a high-impact climax. But, isn’t that what ‘Modern Love’ means to some of us: puzzling and defies logic on all levels?

‘Modern Love Mumbai’ is free-thinking in attitude, but a thorough conservative in cinematography. Unexpectedly, we see the city through the same traditional perspective of current Bollywood—drone shots of slums juxtaposed against SoBo snootiness, Sea Link is a metaphor for melancholy, and Shah Rukh Khan’s home a euphemism for you-have-arrived. Pritish Nandy Communications should have done better; I mean they had the funds for it.

‘Modern Love Mumbai’ navigates a wide range of issues, collapsing barriers along the way, and what it has effectively taught me is that if external love is your sole currency, then you will be spent.

Casting 

• Fatima Sana Shaikh as Lalzari Lali

• Bhupendra Jadawat as Lutfi

• Wamiqa Gabbi as Megha

• Tannishtha Chatterjee as Rayman

• Dilip Prabhavalkar as Nazrul

• Girija Oak as Kirti

• Shovon Jaman as Driver

• Pratik Gandhi as Manzar Manzu Ali

• Ranveer Brar as Rajveer

• Tanuja as Baai

• Kashmira Irani as Rehana

• Rushad Rana as Zohaib

• Talat Aziz as Shabbir

• Manasi Joshi Roy as Shaheen

• Yeo Yann Yann as Sui

• Meiyang Chang as Ming

• Naseeruddin Shah as Pappi Singh

• Anurag Kashyap as Self

• Imaad Shah as Self

• Sarika as Dilbar Sodhi

• Danesh Razvi as Kunal

• Navneet Nishan as Raj Puri

• Purnima Rathod as Reena

• Yamini Das as Seema Sanghvi

• Ahsaas Channa as Siya

• Tanvi Azmi as Author Nilofer

• Rahul Vohra as Vijay Baijal

• Masaba Gupta as Saiba

• Ritwik Bhowmik as Parth

• Dolly Singh as Aashna

• Nazneen Madan as Reema

• Meherzan Mazda as Abdullah

• Prateik Babbar as Rohan

• Aadar Malik as Suhas

• Chitrangada Singh as Latika

• Arshad Warsi as Daniel Danny

• Flora Jacob as Daniel's mother

• Pushtii Shakti as Alicia Martins

• Mita Vashisht as Amal Ali

Crew

Writer: Vishal Bhardwaj, Alankrita Shrivastava, Hansal Mehta, Kashyap Kapoor, Dhruv Sehgal, Ankur Pathak, Nilesh Maniyar, Raghav Raj Kakker, Jyotsna Hariharan, Devika Bhagat, John Belanger

Director: Shonali Bose, Vishal Bhardwaj, Hansal Mehta, Alankrita Shrivastava, Dhruv Sehgal, Nupur Asthana.

Character Analysis

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Seasons

1. Raat Rani (transl. Night Queen) May 13, 2022

Lali is a cook, and her husband Lutfi is a security guard, in an upscale apartment in Mumbai, far from their native Kashmir. Long days end with ice cream - one cup, two spoons - until suddenly he dumps her, breaking her heart and shattering her dreams. All he leaves behind is his old bicycle. Together, can Lali and her cycle cross the bridge to a better life.

2. Baai May 13, 2022

Manzu, a gay man who grew up in a conservative household, is torn between the love for his partner and Baai, his ailing and ever-doting grandmother. When he visits her in their ancestral home, the past catches up with him as the pain and pangs of his childhood take him back to a reality he had long left behind. After all these years, will Manzu find the strength to tell his truth to Baai?

3. Mumbai Dragon May 13, 2022

The currency of love is different for all but for Sui, it is the food that she cooks for her son, Ming. When that is threatened by the entrance of his girlfriend Megha in Ming's life, Sui vows to the Warrior God, Kwan Tai Kwon, that she will not speak in Hindi until he brings her son back to her. Mumbai Dragon is Sui's journey of realizing that sometimes letting go is the truest form of love.

4. My Beautiful Wrinkles May 13, 2022

Dilbar Sodhi tries to grapple with a young man's declaration of sexual interest in her. It sets her on a path of dealing with the baggage from her past and re-discovering the joy of life.

5. I Love Thane May 13, 2022

About Saiba's journey of finding the right modern man amidst the plethora of men on dating apps. However, life has other plans for her when she meets someone who isn't the 'modern man' she had set out to find and is timeless.

6. Cutting Chai May 13, 2022

In her 40s, Latika is caught in the humdrum of marriage and motherhood and regrets not having fulfilled her dream of being a novelist. On one eventful day, she finds herself re-evaluating all her choices in life thus far, even her marriage. As bittersweet memories and 'what if' fantasies run parallel in her mind, she understands that questioning her past is futile, the answers all lie within her.

Behind The Scenes

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Awards

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Conclusion 

Modern Love Mumbai - Exploring six unique yet universal stories of human connection and love in their varied forms, including romantic, platonic, parental, sexual, familial, marital and self-love, which are presented in six different episodes. It premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 13 May 2022.

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