7/4/2023 0 Comments Arya 2 movie side heroSushmita Sen padded that entitlement with kindness and grace. These are rich people who don’t wear their richness like a gift, but like a right. She belongs to a royal family, so the setting, in Rajasthan, was stylistically lush - that emerald and gold striped blouse Sen wore, that turmeric yellow lehenga, those milk white poppy fields - yet casual. A remake of the Dutch show Penoza, Aarya was a deft cultural translation. A consummate binge, unlike Paatal Lok or Sacred Games, and a sensational drama with an afterlife, unlike Bombay Begums or Mumbai Diaries: 26/11, it followed in intimate close-ups Aarya Sareen (Sushmita Sen), who is forced to wield a gun and become a gangster to protect her three children, after her husband is gunned down. It is what made the first season of Aarya the finest show - and I say finest without a hint of exaggeration or rhetorical excess - Indian streaming coughed up. Text, subtext, and paratext - everything is drama, and everything is in service of drama. The kind of meticulous craft that is subtextually empty, yet hints at depth, but is so compelling, so dramatic that you don’t mind that emptiness. It might sound odd, but I find in director Ram Madhvani, so much of Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
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