Hola Amigos! My blog awoke from deep slumber because of a delightful little Indian web series called Permanent Roommates. Those who know me well know that there isn’t a good TV show or movie that I can pass up… never mind how busy I am and often to the detriment of my sleep (hello Korean drama shows - but that is a whole other post).
In Permanent Roommates, Sumeet Vaidya and Nidhi Singh play Mikesh and Tanya, a couple in a long distance relationship. What happens when one half of the duo does not want a long distance relationship anymore and is ready to take it to the next level but the other half is not convinced that they want this relationship at all… The hi-jinks that ensue when Mikesh proposes marriage to Tanya make up for much of Season 1. It’s a breezy watch at 5 episodes. There were many times where I laughed out loud at some of the dialogues and crazy circumstances that the young couple found themselves in.
Sumeet Vaidya brings a lot of heart to Mikesh and you cannot help but fall in love with him. He is unequivocally adoring of Tanya - no matter what she does - which makes it a little hard for me to believe that she wouldn’t want to be with him. On the surface Tanya seems very detached but when push comes to shove she roots for their relationship too. I enjoy that the peripheral characters are also not stereotypical and pretty decently fleshed out for a web series. At the end of the day it is a sincere, heart-warming story about our main couple with a healthy dose of humor and ridiculous situations with well-etched out character roles. Permanent Roommates is created by Biswapati Sarkar and The Viral Fever (TVF).
Bottomline - an enjoyable watch - definitely much better than some of the big budget movies that make it on screen these days. You can catch it here on youtube. Enjoy!
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