You cannot even cringe-watch ALTBalaji-ZEE5’s latest offering titled Paurashpur. I know this is a bold claim to make after having only watched a few episodes. But if you have consumed OTT titles in the past few months and then sit down to watch this Ekta Kapoor series, you will know exactly what I am talking about.Paurashpur All Seasons Free Download.Paurashpur Season 1-2 Download.
The series stars a host of familiar faces, including Shilpa Shinde, Annu Kapoor, Milind Soman, Shaheer Sheikh and Flora Saini. But none of them can save this sad excuse for a period drama. The script is abysmal, and the dialogues are just plain bad. I flinched hearing some of the lines Kapoor’s evil king Bhadra Pratap utters at one point while talking to his privates.Paurashpur makers possibly think the series is a groundbreaking epic drama about lust, revenge and patriarchy. However, it comes across as soft porn. There are unnecessary sex scenes, which, by the way, have not been shot aesthetically. There are also some disturbing scenes featuring Annu Kapoor and one of his queens. Bad CGI and lighting make things worse.
Paurashpur soon after its start gets into the ‘its-so-bad-that-it-is-fun’ zone. The sleazy content and the lazy dialogues and its delivery everything adds up. The unintentional fun is visible via the execution and the acting. However, soon we realise that the joke is on the audience, and that’s where all the interest is lost.The narrative progress with some twists here and there which are admittedly unexpected. But, it doesn’t evoke any feeling at all. The whole thing flows without rhyme or purpose content-wise. It slows down when the sexual moments arrive.If women empowerment and highlighting their spirit are the purpose of the series, the exploitation we see (of women) defeats the very ‘purpose’.There is no redeeming factor story-wise from the start to the end. The execution makes it further weak. It is a show that should be erased instantly from one’s mind, but it seems there is more. We shudder to think what lies ahead.