Broken But Beautiful 3 assessment: Sidharth Shukla’s OTT debut marred by lacklustre storytelling

What makes a romantic drama nice leisure? It ought to have charismatic leads and a joyful love story, with equal components ardour and pathos. The thought is to observe two folks assembly one another, falling hopelessly in love and overcome unattainable odds. This is a style that’s joyous to expertise — capturing the heady aroma of romance itself. But, while you begin watching the third season of Broken But Beautiful, the AltBalaji collection which has introduced the heart-warming love story of Veer (Vikrant Massey) and Sameera (Harleen Sethi) within the earlier seasons, you miss the heat and happiness.
Broken But Beautiful 3, as you possibly can in all probability guess from the title, is about unrequited love. However, as a substitute of exploring the fantastic thing about it, the online collection showcases a poisonous relationship between its leads Agastya (Sidharth Shukla) and Rumi (Sonia Rathee). Agastya is a bully, an alcoholic theatre director, and a foul-mouthed hothead. Rumi is a spoilt wealthy brat who has just one goal in life: to get her childhood crush Ishaan (Ehan Bhatt) to like her. She showers expletives at girls in Ishaan’s life, and for her, each lady who comes near him is a b****. When the worlds of those flawed beings collide, you count on some fireworks to occur, however a poorly written script comes between them.
Today, if you end up attending to witness some brilliantly written flawed characters within the likes of Ajeeb Daastaans and Bombay Begums, Rumi and Agastya lack depth. You solely get to know them on the floor. It looks like writers Shazia Malik and Sharifa Roy didn’t care about their characters or why they need to fall in love; they simply put them via the motions. And watching them didn’t really feel escapist or enjoyable both – the important facet behind this style. In truth, their intimate moments and their kisses look gross and slimy. For me, a die-hard fan of the style, it was simply unhappy to not have the ability to be invested within the characters and their journey.

For the primary 4 episodes, it was troublesome to distinguish between Agastya of Broken But Beautiful 3 and Sidharth Shukla of Bigg Boss. He was precisely the way you watched him in Bigg Boss 13 — conceited, self-centred, ill-mannered and a poisonous man-child. At one level, Rumi calls Agastya “sasta Kabir Singh” and I couldn’t agree extra. The complete journey of Shukla’s character has three heroes of Bollywood dramas stuffed into one, and this isn’t even an exaggeration. He begins as Kabir Singh, then transforms into Jordan of Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar and finally turns into a Zen model of Jab We Met’s Aditya.
However, relating to efficiency, Shukla has carried out an honest job. The blame of not having the ability to join together with his character goes to the writers who didn’t give him sufficient meat to convey the character alive onscreen. But for his followers, the online collection is a winner as they get to see their ‘superhero’ as they fancy him.
The identical goes for Sonia Rathee. She stays convincing as Rumi for a lot of the half. She succeeds in bringing that bitter feeling in you for her however once more, you by no means can join along with her.
Sidharth Shukla and Sonia Rathee in a nonetheless from Broken But Beautiful 3.

There is a particular look of stars of season one and two, Veer (Massey) and Sameera (Sethi), and the second you watch them, the hollowness of Rumi and Agastya’s story hits you even tougher. The hopeless romantic in me would have most well-liked to re-watch the emotional roller-coaster that was Broken But Beautiful season 1 and a pair of as a substitute of this lifeless love saga .
However, one factor that retains you going via the ten episodes is the music. Like the primary two seasons, right here too you get some soulful romantic renditions on the most important junctures within the story. Maybe you possibly can simply benefit from the soulful playlist as a substitute of sitting via the lengthy episodes. Kudos to Amaal Mallik, Akhil Sachdeva, Vishal Mishra and Sandman for delivering a long-awaited authentic music album.

Furthermore, I simply wish to know from all of the filmmakers: ‘What is it with stuffing young stories with alcoholism and cuss words?’ ‘Why are the youngsters stereotyped as alcoholics and bad-mouthed people?’ Is that the one approach of showcasing ‘modern’ folks? Here too, you received’t ever see the ‘artist’ Agastya and not using a bottle of some low-cost liquor. He even drinks the beer shampoo of his girlfriend to ease his ache of heartbreak! Rumi additionally all the time resorts to alcohol when she desires to flee the fact of her life.
On the entire, the romantic souls who have been ready for Broken But Beautiful 3, can return to the earlier two seasons as this one received’t fulfil the will of watching a blissful love story.