Ye un Dino Ki baat hai.
Name is enough to make you fall in love with the show. Any 90s kid would definitely feel the innocent nostalgia of growing up in the era when, Pizza was a new dish, when TV was an affair of family gathering at dinner, when falling in love with your schoolmate was a cosy blushing feeling, basically when time was innocent and people were simple.
The Show:
The show is based on a American Television Drama, - The Wonder Years, which showcased the life of American teenagers mostly between 1960s and 1970s, which in American terms is a wonder era of US.
Similarly, 1980s and 1990s in India have been considered as Wonderful era of positive influence on economy, on cultural advancement, on overall societal development.
The Acting:
The main lead, Naina is played beautifully by Ashi Singh, she looks a fresh face and has some good acting skills.
Randeep Rai plays Sameer, who is Naina’s love interest, has to match up on the 90s style, The chap needs to make an effort to look as ugly as teenager boys look during puberty years.
Rest of the cast, is experienced and veteran in acting and hence is specialized TV acting skills,
The pleasant surprises are Kiran Kumar as Sameer’s Grand dad, Sachin Khurana as Naina’s Uncle and Poet Ahsaan Qureshi as Principal Pandey.
The Appeal:
As the kids of 80s are nearing 40 years of age and those of 90s are entering in their 30s, the nostalgia that is crated makes you smile, and then makes you think where have we come from that beautiful era. The whole show gives a feel of India’s affair with Globalization. Amdavadi backdrop is so apt, as the city was one of the firsts to get influenced by economic liberalization, globalization and privatization.
Sadiya Siddiqui deserves a special mention for being the story teller.
The Look and Feel:
The show is like how we tell our kids, stories of our childhood.
This surely is a fresh breeze of air in the rotten atmosphere of Indian TV after few production houses created the carnage.
Enjoy The Wonder Years of India.