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Gullak season 4 : soaked in simplicity, peppered with humor.
What: The slice of drama has its heart, humor and happiness at the right place.
With amazing web series like Panchayat and Gullak, rooted in our country’s heartland, TVF has arguably emerged as the audience’s most favorite production ventures. Their works have garnered love and adulation, ensuring a legacy of content year after year, and cementing a pipeline of instalments with endearing characters.
Gullak, soaked in simplicity and rooted in the middle-class ethos, evokes a sense of nostalgia and unmistakable live-in feeling of our growing years in a neighborhood that harbors a potpourri of memories soaked in myriad flavors – sweet and bitter, spicy, and tangy, just like the leitmotif piggy bank.
In the fourth season of the famed series, we find the Mishra Parivar gripped by a show-cause notice by the municipal office for illegal encroachment of their House No.534. While the senior Mishras, Santosh, and Shanti (played by the immensely talented Jameel Khan and Geetanjali Kulkarni) try to figure out the solution together, they realize how the husband forms the pillars and wife forms the upholstery of a home.
Creator-director Shreyansh Pandey and co-writer Vidit Tripathi weave wonderful stories on an intimate fabric that pulls the viewers through their heartstrings. Charming nuggets and slices of life stories get a garnishing of winsome performances from the Mishra Parivaar including the juniors – Anand and Aman, by the talented Vaibhav Raj Gupta and Harsh Mayar and the innocently notorious, Bittu ki Mummy, played by Sunita Rajwar, with a whiff of freshness and rhythm by composer Arabinda Neog. The modulation you can sharply observe in the second episode where a chain snatching incident lands Shanti in a state of trauma. The talented Geetanjali Kulkarni, whom we otherwise see bustling with terrific spirit in household chores, imbues her with a rare streak of vulnerability.
Gullak derives its emotional impetus from the father-son bittersweet equation of Santosh Mishra and Aman Mishra – a clash of perspectives and ‘asleel prem-patra’ between the old-style daddy and the son stepping into adulthood and showing sparks of rebel. Harsh Mayar catches the notes of his character and delivers a commendable performance. The last episode is a tearjerker and would demand a handkerchief in your pocket.
And when it comes to mischief, House No. 536 stands tall with Bittu Ki Mummy. You will find the idiosyncratic nosy aunty in every neighborhood, but Rajwar adorns her character with a flawless notoriety while exhibiting her culinary skills through Amla Ke Murabbe and cunning through extracting 500 notes.
Gullak season 4 – final words
I was thoroughly glued to Gullak from the start to the finishing line of the five episodes. It’s a show that has its humor, heart and happiness in the right place. Make sure to dedicate your weekend afternoon to it.
Gullak season 4 is streaming on SonyLIV
Rating 4/5
Ahwaan Padhee, is an IT Techie/Business Consultant by profession and a film critic/cinephile by passion, is also associated with Radio Playback as well, loves writing and conducting movie quizzes. More By Ahwaan Padhee