Showtime Review: Emraan Hashmi's Bollywood Satire Starts Strong But Loses Direction
Mouni Roy's Yasmin Ali, perhaps the most stereotyped character in the show, is going through her struggles with Raghu.
The first four episodes of Showtime Season 1 laid the foundation for an exciting battle between Emraan Hashmi's Raghu Khanna, an arrogant industry veteran, and Mahima Makwana's Mahika Nandy, an outsider who is handed the reins of Victory Studios by Raghu's father. This departure was already interesting, but Emraan and Mahima's stellar acting added to its impact.
In the second half, there is too much happening with too many characters. At one point, you start wondering what the show is trying to say. Superstar Armaan Singh (Rajeev Khandelwal) breaks up with Mahika over his ambitious film, then tries to return to his wife Mandira (Shriya Saran) and eventually decides to start his own production house. His quirky antics are entertaining, but his character doesn't add much to the show, except that it drags.
