{"id":19347,"date":"2020-08-22T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=19347"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:15:30","slug":"masaba-masaba-a-unique-concept-familiar-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=19347","title":{"rendered":"Masaba Masaba: A Unique Concept, \u2018Familiar\u2019 Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sasaba Masaba soon on Netflix, which marks the acting debut of dress designer Masaba Gupta, seems to be a new voice in an old jukebox. I hate to say \u2018old wine in a new bottle\u2019 because the main character that\u2019s Masaba as Masaba is shown emptying out a booze bottle all alone in her room pretending to party at the start of the trailer.<br \/>\nThis little self-generated tamasha sets the mood for Masaba Masaba\u2026Why the title twice? We may well ask .Is it because the series offers twice the entertainment quotient of other series? Masaba x 2 does have a slightly sweaty glam-glitz look and feel to it. The last time I saw this look and feel on the streaming platform was in the very watchable Four More Shots Please.<br \/>\nThere is no need to be apologetic about being part of the jetsetting crowd. At this time when they have nowhere to jet to Masaba Masaba seems a wee wistful a bit nostalgic, celebrating the times when women and men battled it out in chic hotel lobbies in outfits to match.The drinks flowed and so did the repartees. Now we have disheveled women and men speaking in disembodies voices on Zoom.<br \/>\nBesides Masaba who plays herself, Neena Gupta plays her mother. They are seen to be squabbling a lot and I wonder how much of their real relationship is put on film?Is this a faithful bio-pic or a flight of fancy version of reality with the emphasis on \u2018fancy\u2019? The latter, I suspect.<br \/>\nBesides Masaba &amp; Mom I also saw some other talented actors hovering around for attention. Among them, the talented and always neglected Neil Bhoopalam and Satyadeep Mishra. They play strong men pretending to be props. The men are clearly dispensable here.<br \/>\nMasaba Masaba is a chic flick, not to be mistaken with a chick flick. It is about dressing up your dreams in the outfit of opulent conceit. Let\u2019s see how far this conceit, so palpable in the trailer, takes the series when it streams later this month.\n<\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_23248\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i3IuXm_de3I?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MasabaG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by MasabaG<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasaba Masaba soon on Netflix, which marks the acting debut of dress designer Masaba Gupta, seems to be a new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21462,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions\/21462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}