Cast: Shikha Talsania, Harman Singha, Ira Dubey, Jatin Sial, Kitu Gidwani, Cyrus Sahukar, Salonie Patel and Siddhant Karnick.

Creator: Pavneet Gakhal and Gaurav Lulla

Director: Rajshree Ojha

BLUF:

Potluck is about a man trying to keep his family together. He decides that his family will meet for a potluck dinner every week, but the way he convinces everyone is where he goes wrong.  This is the story of those dinners.

THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES

Writers Ashwin Lakshmi Narayan, Gaurav Lulla, and Bharat Misra create a framework where a big family living nuclearly comes together at a big fat dinner held all together by the dad who is selfish adequately enough to fake a heart attack so his kids could agree to the plan.

 A busy corporate slave father after his retirement is trying to build a happy long-lasting relationship with his children and their families, but if you scrape under the exterior, it is also a story about how all relationships in a family have shades to them. The flaws that define every member and the misbalance between them even if they try with all force to keep things on track.

The characters are well drawn out and mostly realistic.

Jatin Sial is the father who tries to renovate himself with time. He wants to be a friend to his kids and is humanly not extremely righteous.

Cyrus Sahukar is the older brother with a lot of baggage. He has the obligation to be rational amid chaos. Supporting him is Ira Dubey (remember them in Aisha together) a working mother trying to balance job and kids.

Shikha Talsania plays the single daughter who is figuring out life while meeting suitors..

Potluck goes a little off track a bit because instead of being excited about the family meeting next, the audience finds drawn into a monotonous depiction. The drama needed to be heightened a bit more than what it is. The good part is the 20 minutes per episode in the binge which makes the series breezy.

WHAT WE LOVED

Breezy narrative

Relatable characters

WHAT WE MISSED

More engaging drama