Ajeeb Daastaans movie review: Good and bad co-exist in this morally ambiguous anthology
The common modus operandi seems to be a subversion of our expectations at the end, even if the effectiveness of this strategy wavers.
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Ajeeb Daastans, a four-part anthology, has atypicality in its stories, although the degree varies from film to film.
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Karan Johar’s segment in the 2013 anthology, Bombay Talkies, ends with the song, ‘Ajeeb Daastan Hai Ye’, as a bewildered Dev (Randeep Hooda), who has just come out as a homosexual to his wife, sits, doubtful about his future. The song befits the fogginess of his situation, and with Karan Johar producing Ajeeb Daastaans, a four-part anthology, you can see where the idea might have stemmed from. Translating to ‘Weird Tales’, Ajeeb Daastaans has atypicality in its stories, although the degree varies from film to film. The common modus operandi seems to be a subversion of our e
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Ajeeb Daastaans: Take the sloppy with the smooth
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Direction: Shashank Khaitan, Raj Mehta, Neeraj Ghaywan, Kayoze Irani
Rating: (three stars)
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
It is provocative, for the way it twists the very concept of love from being an emotion that demands unconditional sacrifice to a mere tool for realising selfish gains. It is flawed, too, for the way it struggles to utilise that unusual premise, while bringing alive its spread of relationship sagas.
Ajeeb Daastaans is a curious bag indeed, if only for its utterly wicked entertainment quotient, and also because it is a rare film coming out of mainstream Bollywood that looks at love as anything beyond a sacrosanct sentiment.
‘Ajeeb Daastaans’ & the four shorts formula
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Netflix’s latest anthology explores themes like dysfunctional love, prejudice, loneliness and revenge
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Netflix’s latest anthology explores themes like dysfunctional love, prejudice, loneliness and revenge
In the past year, several anthologies, such as
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Paava Kadhaigal, have made it to OTT platforms, following the tried-and-tested formula of four short films under one umbrella loosely tied together by a common theme. In the latest anthology,
Ajeeb Daastaans, four stories are built around fractured relationships and unusual ways of navigating them.
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The anthology is a lesser explored but a much loved film format and the OTT platforms has accelerated its growth. Netflix India has already presented two films in this space – LUST STORIES [2018] and GHOST STORIES [2020]. And now, it releases its third anthology, AJEEB DAASTAANS. Backed by Karan Johar’s Dharmatic Entertainment, it consists of four short stories. The trailer and the ensemble star cast have raised expectations. So does AJEEB DAASTAANS manage to entertain audiences? Or do the four stories of this film fail to entice? Let’s analyse.
1. Majnu (Directed and written by Shashank Khaitan)