Wakaalat From Home review: A must-watch show
Wakaalat From Home is available on Amazon Prime Video. Wakaalat From Home creator: Rohan Sippy Wakaalat From Home cast: Sumeet Vyas, Kubbra Sait, Nidhi Singh, Gopal Dutt Wakaalat From Home rating: Three stars Most of us have juggled house help, spotty internet connections, loud family members, pets and other shenanigans, while being on an official zoom call. Wakaalat From Home, Amazon Prime latest breakthrough offering, has brought all the above-mentioned struggles to the fore and has left us chuckling wistfully at the new normal of a life in the coronavirus-induced lockdown. The bite-sized show, with ten 12-15 minute long episodes, provides the perfect relief, comic and otherwise, from the edgy, dark and layered offerings that have dominated the web space in the past few months. As the name suggests, the show is a courtroom drama centred around Radhika (Nidhi Singh) and Sujin (Sumeet Vyas), a couple whose divorce proceedings occur over video conferencing due to the lockdown. They have been assigned an arbitrator Rajni (Kubbra Sait) who is also the legal counsel of Sujin. Lobo Tripathi (Gopal Datt) is the counsel for Radhika. There is a flat in Bandra which is the root of contention, and there is a mysterious Shilpi and Shrestha, people we only hear and feel, but never see. We meet all four of them, their air conditioners, pets, books and plants, as the arbitration starts from their respective homes. Read the full article
