CAST: Plabita Borthakur, Shiv Pandit, Vivaan Shah, Ayesha Raza Mishra
DIRECTED BY Shree Narayan Singh
BLUF:
Supriya (Ayesha Raza) and her grown children—eldest son Rajan (Shiv Panditt), daughter Ramni (Plabita Borthakur), and youngest son Raman (Vivaan Shah, legend Naseeruddin Shah’s son) are the protagonists of this Zee5 series.
Supriya struggles to manage her responsibilities after her husband dies in the pandemic. She gets help from her kind neighbors—a grocery store owner, Trilok aka Loki (Suneel Sinha) and his daughter Dipanita (Niharika Lyra Dutt). But she holds a grudge with her children as they did were not able to come to attend their father’s last rites. As Supriya is striking out on her own with her by launching Sutliyan, a handmade macrame business, she feels the trepidation of doing things on her own after spending her entire life dependent on her husband.
THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES
As the siblings meet, it is clear that they all carry the guilt of not being there for their ageing mother sooner, and their anguish is obvious. However, as their motivations are revealed, things become a pickle.
Rajan (Shiv Panditt) is bankrupt and wants his mother Supriya (Ayesha Raza) to sell the family-owned land to tide over his financial crisis. Ramani (Plabita Borthakur) is deeply tied to her family legacy and feels aggrieved about Rajan’s decision. The youngest son Raman (Vivaan Shah) is a living in his own microcosm and in love with a married woman, the grocery store owner’s daughter.
The reunion exposes the underlying tension as well as resolves it.
IN THE KNOW
All of the characters feel real, and you can immediately relate to them and their backstories
Ayesha Raza as the mother is the heart of this very sweet, heartwarming story of family and love. Shiv Panditt is the elder son . Disha Arora as Rajan’s wife, and their son Raksh (played by Swastik Tiwari), both infuriating and charming at the same time feel like real people.
Plabita Borthakur is remarkable as the rational and smart Ramni, who thinks of her mother’s behavior as unusual as she is acting normal after her tragedy of losing her husband. Vivaan Shah is real and raw as Raman.
Writers Sudeep Nigam and Abhishek Chatterjee present this screenplay with warmth, humor and a liberal attitude. The show’s director is Shree Narayan Singh (Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, Batti Gul Meter Chalu) and brings a certain lucidity to the storytelling and narrative in a very simple and fluid manner.
And the title track is woah !!! totally kickass
We love that the eight episodes of this series each under 25 minutes each, Sutliyan is simple storytelling at it best.
We Loved it.
