Cast: Vijay Varma ,Radhika Apte, Jackie Shroff
Director: Neil Pagedar and Pooja Shetty
BLUF
If you have watched sci-fi themes like Amazon Prime’s Upload of Futuristic Virtual Reality, the near future described in this series is not someone’s fertile imagination.
Ok Computer is set in avant-garde India, Goa in the near future. Artificial Intelligence has taken over the essential duties. A dead body, a manipulated car, which, initially, thought to be an accident later, it is now determined as a murder.
Who is the killer, and how is Ajeeb, the robot, created to save mankind, is linked to the murder? This is what this series is all about.
THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES
The opening episode should be enough for people to wish to proceed further or not. For me personally, the vision of the overhead projector with hanging wires was downer enough for a hole in the heart. No India No. Can you please do a better job on sci-fi content, please? This is so deeply embarrassing.
First, the tone of the series carefully being set in the intricate opening block where a crime scene is being investigated is outright tacky not only in visual effects and design but also in pace.
Enough said, this definitely had some potential, but it was quickly squandered by the biggest problem of the series- the paucity of an engrossing storyline for a protracted interval of time.
IN THE ZONE
Ok, Computer has an exciting concept and concept for the future. The background score by Gabriel Prokofiev is okay. There is nothing distinctive or unforgettable about it, however. The cinematography by Diego Guijarro is yeah. If you are sci-fi buff, you may find it a tad bit disappointing given the scope that the story canvas could have provided the imagination gone wild. The editing by Charu Takkar is clever in parts and lazy in others. The writing is good in parts, insipid and humdrum for the landscape, most of the time. At times, as a viewer of smart stories and a techie, you almost lose your patience with the narrative.
FWAR
Though some of the subplots and dialogues are amusing they are not enough to make the entire series interesting. Radhika Apte, Vijay Varma – the actors we expect so much out of being caught in a web of Robo jargon which makes their entire diatribe amusingly ridiculous in parts. The story and therefore the actors and whoever else wants to fly with the narrative just doesn’t take off.
WHAT WE LOVED
Radhika Apte and the plausibility of a story.
WHAT WE MISSED
Our swaggalicious Vijay Varma caught in a boring, muddled narrative of a science fiction story caught in its own web of inconsistent futurism.
