The main problem with The First Lady, the Showtime series focused on three past presidents’ wives – Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), Betty Ford (Michelle PIt also felt like a story, about the story, was imminent. But more as a threat than a treat. Suffice to say that the title slate, a tri-coloured Bandon Mein Tha Dum! – and especially that exclamation mark – didn’t exactly inspire confidence.Bandon Mein Tha Dum! Season 1 Download
But that’s the thing about this new four-part docu-series. It sort of subconsciously imitates the tonality of the cricket it’s about. India’s win was a bizarre marriage of everyman grit and tacky-but-effective flamboyance: the grit of Pujara and Ashwin and Vihari, the flamboyance of Gill and Pant and Siraj. The grit here is symbolized by the sharp and journalistic coverage of the script, co-written by cricket scribe Bharat Sundaresan (author of The Dhoni Touch). ESPNcricinfo writer Sidharth Monga is also credited as ‘cricket consultant’. The script, then, isn’t just the Hindi-language voiceover narrating the ebbs and flows of the series. It’s the resistance to external noise – no family interviews, no reaction shots, no backroom footage, no lofty analogies and speeches, no social tangents, no ‘primary players’.
A lot of it might be down to archival access as well, but it preserves the sanctity of both the sport and the storytelling. It’s pure cricket – four episodes, four memorable tests – through the eyes of those involved, and through the eyes of some watching. The writing is the no-nonsense equivalent of Pujara’s attrition, Ashwin’s eloquence, Vihari’s simplicity.feiffer) and Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson) – is evident in the first few seconds. The pilot, directed by The Night Manager’s Susanne Bier, opens with a camera flash sometime in the late 2010s. Michelle Obama sits for a photoshoot by the portraitist Amy Sherald in a pose familiar to most Americans – long, flowing gown with a geometric print, hair in loose waves, chin resting on the back of her hand. Asked by Obama why she didn’t want to paint her husband’s portrait, Sherald responds: “I don’t want to just paint the official. I am in interested in the real.