Review: Mrs Pammi Pyarelal is fresh and entertaining

Mr Pammi Pyarelal naam toh suna hi hoga? Well, Pammi is one woman who has managed to grab quite a lot of eyeballs in the last few weeks, courtesy the high-end promotion made by Colors for their first comic daily soap!! So what’s your take folks? Did you have fun watching this show?

This is what we could decipher on watching the initial episodes of Mrs Pammi Pyarelal, produced by Playtime Creations.

Mrs Pammi Pyarelal is a story of a young boy, Param Gulati – being essayed by the very talented Gaurav Gera – who goes to the temple everyday and offers prayers to the deities to get to the city of dreams Mumbai. He wants to become a film star. God does answer his prayers, but thereon life just gets difficult for him.

Jobless and homeless, Param has a troubled start in Mumbai when he learns that the director has canned his scene in the movie he was shooting in, and he does not have much to do. There are problems galore when his best friend Rahul Pyarelal – being played by Karan Goddwani – who is also an aspiring actor gets kicked out of his rented apartment which is Param’s only hope. Thus the two go looking out for a PG (paying guest).

After seeing a few not so good apartments Rahul decides on entering a bungalow all alone. There he finalizes their stay to only learn that the tenants only allow married couples to stay with them. Therefore, Param is left with no option but to dress up as Rahul’s wife Mrs Pammi Pyarelal. Typically filmy, right? To add on, the guy needs to pay off his father’s debts, has a poor mother and a handicapped sister. Ekdam 80’s style!!!

“Aaj Khush To Bahut Hoge Tum”, the famous dialogue of the yester year movie Deewar is proof enough that this show will spoof many more dialogues and tag lines from movies of the 80’s. The misery of the parents sounds as though you are watching a sorry tale, but the execution makes you laugh!! The dialogues are extremely entertaining with names of movies and filmy dialogues being a part of every line, the most entertaining of all being the character of Ranjeet played by Mazar Sayed. Ranjeet is someone who has been rejected by 166 girls but, he falls in love with Pammi the minute he sees her. This love and hate relationship between Ranjeet and Pammi is pretty entertaining with the ‘bad man’ Ranjeet wanting to be around her and Pammi trying to maintain distance from him.

The other characters too are full of life. Kamini Fauzdar aka Dadi which is being played by Usha Nadkarni is a control freak. Everybody in the family follows her orders. Ushaji as Dadi is putting in some outstanding performances. Next is Gayatri who is one Urdu speaking girl. This girl talks sense but since she talks in Urdu it’s difficult for people to understand her dialect. Vindya Tiwari as Gayatri is decent, but we think she can work a bit more on her character.

There are few more characters like Rajveer who is too busy in his business of share market. The character is being played by Sanjeev Jotangia and his on-screen wife is being played by Sonia Rakkar. Sonia’s on-screen character is Amrita who doubts everybody. Randhir, Dadi’s second son being played by Prasad Barve is a Doctor by profession but, he is suffering from rare diseases due to which he keeps forgetting things. Lastly, his wife Mohini is an actress who left her career for her husband. Rinku Ghosh is playing this character.

Also the entire concept of showing the characters in a picturized manner is entertaining. This also indicates that the makers are not at all lazy. In fact there was a scene in the third episode where the entire Fauzdar family wants to know Pammi and Rahul’s love story and Rahul and Pammi narrate it to them. Every word of their story is actually shot for the audience to see. The makers could have easily limited it to dialogues; hats off to the makers for choosing the tougher way out!!

The background scores and the Pammi track are catchy. But, cinematography does not see any revolution here. As a viewer, it irks when every episode has to end with Pammi’s identity being at stake just to create curiosity amongst viewers to watch the next episode. Guess there can be betterment here to bring back the viewers to watching the show the next day.

Overall this show is worth a watch as it gives a breath of fresh air as you have the feel of watching the best of the 80’s movies!!!