Cast: Lavanya Tripathi, Abijeet Duddala, Abhignya Vuthaluru, Harshavardhan, Jhansi, Mahesh Vitta, Harsh Roshan
Crew:
Editor: Ravi Teja Girijala
Cinematographer: Aditya Javvadi
Music Director: Prashant R Vihari
Director: Vishvak Khanderao
Producer: Supriya Yarlagadda
OTT Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
No: of Episodes: 8
Web-Series Rating: 2.25/5
Lavanya Tripathi has turned to web-series these days and this is her first release post marriage. Miss Perfect has Abijeet Duddala, Bigg Boss show winner and actor in the cast as lead actor. After playing a cop in her other web-series, she has decided to come up with a comedy and light-hearted one. The show released on 2nd February on Disney+ Hotstar and has very talented team coming together to make it. Let’s discuss about the show at length.
Plot:
Lavanya Rao(Lavanya Tripathi), a marketing consultant, has extreme OCD and she finds it hard to mix with anyone. She gets asked by maid Jyothi(Abhignya Vuthaluru) to help out her during COVID-19 pandemic in informing Rohit Varma(Abijeet Duddala) that she cannot come to work. Instead, Lavanya ends up becoming maid Laxmi and starts helping out Rohit in keeping the appartment clean. Slowly, both get attracted to each other. How does the rest of the show becomes about their romance? Watch the show to know more.
Analysis:
The premise seems to be inspired from famous YouTube Telugu web-series. Getting Lavanya Tripathi and Abijeet Duddala to be the leads did help the show to garner some popularity prior to release. But the issue with the show remains its writing. The kind of show it wants to be versus what it is the matter of discussion, here. A fun premise where a lady cannot really reveal her identity and then fall for the man whom she abhors is classic romantic drama. With good comedy inserted into the premise, we can watch it without any regrets off tuning in.
The writing doesn’t really explore the characters in the creative way that it should. Predictability sets in from the second episode and it starts dragging out some of the interesting sub-plots as well. A simple comedy slolwly starts taking itself too seriously and we get very little new information from some of them and comedy doesn’t work out as well it should too. As we go deep into exploring relationship dynamics, the things get too generic and situational comedy doesn’t flourish.
Lavanya Tripathi did a very good job for the content she has been given. Abijeet is good but he needs some more fine-tuning on his dialogue delivery. Harshavardhan and Jhansi hammed a lot. Mahesh Vitta one-liners did not have the desired effect. Prashant Vihari music is fine but nothing to write home about. Aditya Javvadi did a good job handling camera. Vishvak Khanderao and his writing team should have looked at the potential of inserting every possible situation that these two characters can be put in and explore it. On the whole, it is watchable for the performances and occasional good punches.
Positives:
Premise of the series
Performances
Few portions that work well
Negatives:
Predictability
Several stretched plots
Irritating sub-plots
Miss Perfect Web-Series Bottom-line: Could have been better
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