You may or you may not know, but Ninety One are playing in the very first Kazakh TV series with high school theme called Qağaz Keme (i.e. Paper Boat). The TV series is directed by 91’s producer Yerbolat Bedelkhan, and is about students of special school of performing arts, I suppose?.. Presumably, the main theme here would be how one should never give up on their way to their dream. Lots of music, singing, dancing, and, obviously, relationships.
I personally have only watched the first 10 episodes. So far I honestly wouldn’t say it is the best series I’ve ever watched, so I was even a bit disappointed in some sense. The show’s got plenty of drawbacks such as: a fairly simple production that obviously wasn’t thought out well, plotline that’s not as enticing as I hoped it to be, pace that seems to be irregularly fast at times, even colouring isn’t the way I hoped it to be. And, well, the guys aren’t the best actors either, although Alem’s Yerden is rather a convincing jerk, overdoing it a bit still, and Zhanseri by Bala ended up being as light-hearted as you would expect from a jock who tries to flirt with any girl he sees. I’d say Ace is the most natural in all this masquerade, while AZ and ZaQ are dorky pair of friends with their stupid jokes and easy going attitude. Many of the girls are actually overacting, I feel, while some of them are underacting. Overall, it is obvious they are not professional actors, which is why I can regard everyone's work as passable at best.
However, despite all the downsides, I am still glad that there’s a whole new TV genre is being introduced here, specifically targeted to the young part of the demographics. If other producers will keep it up and start working on new projects like that, the actual Q-dramas can become a thing. And, well, that would promote young talents as well. After all, 91 can’t play everyone everywhere, can they?
As of this particular piece of footage, I haven’t watched to this part yet, but I couldn’t resist reposting it: I think @xcialem and @ibrakhantomiris did a job too great not to spoil it to the rest of the world.
