Review of Bada Naam Karenge: This Rajshri serial is heavy on kitchen-sink politics and is just clumsy.

Review of Bada Naam Karenge: Sooraj Barjatya's new musical raises a number of questions, including whether the fleeting period of youth that resurfaces every ten or so years is real or not.It is a contradictory experience to see this nine-part series, which is directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya, the Rajshri scion who brought Maryada and Sanskrit back into Hindi cinema in the mid-1990s.

The 1994 Hum Aapke Hain Koun!, where it was totally acceptable to offer a newly widowed bhai's hand in marriage to his sister-in-law, and where the large temple-going joint family is benevolent but dismissive of its minority characters, makes you wonder if we have come any closer to that time and place.Or did we progress forward — Ratlam Junction, made famous by Jab We Met's "main-toh-apni-favourite-hoon" energetic Geet, finds a prominent place here — just to go back to the time when the older generation knew best most of the time and the younger generation had better behave, or else?The encounter between Ratlam youngster Rishabh Rathi (Ritik Ghanshani) and Ujjain girl Surbhi Gupta (Ayesha Kaduskar) in 2025's "Bada Naam Karenge" is clean and sweet. In reference to that scene in "HAHK," Surbhi says Rishabh later in the series, "ab sasur apni samdhan ke liye harmonium to nahin bajayenge," or something similar: Even in Tier 3 towns, harmoniums may be outdated (this is a real term someone uses here), but everything else is still in place, save for the annoying pomeranian.