There is a dialogue from the film Chhaava – You are not salt but sandalwood, you are a poet, you are the tilak of our forehead, this is what Vineet Kumar Singh has done in this series, he is the life of this series. He is so much like Alakh Pandey that when the real one comes last, he starts looking like a duplicate in front of him. This series talks about the education system but the truth is that the people on whom this series is based are themselves the owners of huge business empires. Is this series made to portray Alak Pandey as great, read full review
Story
This is the story of Alakh Pandey, how a poor boy starts teaching from YouTube and then becomes a physics student. Lakhs of children want to study with him, he wants to teach poor children, he feels this is their right. How his journey started, what problems he faced, who supported him, who left him, what was the role of his family, you will get to see all this in this series.
how is this series
This is a decent series. When this series starts, it looks amazing, the story of some very poor children is shown and simultaneously the track of Alakh Pandey runs. You are surprised to see that in our country children still live in this condition and want to study. You connect with those stories but after two episodes this series becomes a quota factory. It becomes difficult to differentiate between Alakh Pandey and Jeetu Bhaiya. You think we have seen it all. This series talks about right to education. It talks about educating poor children in less money, but the people on whom this series is based are the owners of a company worth crores, so some things bother you a bit. Because as good as all this looks on screen, it is equally difficult in real life. Does this series try to show Alakh Pandey as great? Yes, it definitely does. This series just shows that he just wants to teach. It does not tell how he became such a big businessman. His presence in the series also shows that the series has been made under his supervision, so this series motivates, also talks about the pressure of education on children but it is not able to leave the impact which Kota Factory was able to leave and that too was made by TVF.
acting
Vineet Kumar Singh is the life of this series, he is so amazing that the original ones look like duplicates in front of him. Vineet has played this character differently, he has lived this character as if he has captured the body language of a teacher in an amazing way. Vineet’s acting uplifts this series. Had Vineet not been there, it would have remained an average series. Vikram Kochhar’s work is very good, he also says that his acting range is tremendous. Anumeha Jain has done a good job. Girij Oak has acted well and well. Pankaj Kashyap impresses
Writing and Direction
Abhishek Yadav, Vernali, Ankit Yadav, Sandeep Singh Rawat have written the series and the writing is strong, in between there are some punchlines which touch you, but in the end the series becomes weak, Pratish Mehta’s direction is good.
Overall this series can be watched.
Rating- 3 stars
