Call My Agent: Bollywood

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Call My Agent: Bollywood
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Genre Drama Comedy
Based on Call My Agent!
Written by Hussain Dalal
Abbas Dalal
Screenplay byHussain Dalal
Abbas Dalal
Directed by Shaad Ali
Starring
ComposersPranaay
Roy
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producersSohail Abbas
Praver Awal
Mrinalini Jain
Prasoon Garg
Pooja Batura Pathak
Producers Sameer Nair
Rishi Negi
Deepak Segal
CinematographySunita Radia
EditorFarooq Hundekar
Production companies Applause Entertainment
Banijay Asia
Original release
Release29 October 2021 (2021-10-29)

Call My Agent: Bollywood is an Indian drama web series based on the France 2 TV network series Call My Agent! (Dix Pour Cent (Ten Percent)) . The Netflix show is directed by Shaad Ali, written by Hussain Dalal and Abbas Dalal. [1] [2]

Contents

Cast

Main

Recurring

Special appearances

Episodes

Season 1 (2021)

StoryEpisodeTitleOriginal air dateGuest(s)
11"Episode 1"29 October 2021 (2021-10-29) Dia Mirza
22"Episode 2"29 October 2021 (2021-10-29) Lillete Dubey, Tigmanshu Dhulia and Ila Arun
33"Episode 3"29 October 2021 (2021-10-29) Sarika, Akshara Haasan and Farah Khan
44"Episode 4"29 October 2021 (2021-10-29) Lara Dutta
55"Episode 5"29 October 2021 (2021-10-29) Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal
66"Episode 6"29 October 2021 (2021-10-29) Nandita Das, Jackie Shroff

Reception

According to a review of Scroll.in by Nandini Ramnath entitled "...Just say ‘non’", calling it the "...the vapid and barely funny Hindi remake" and referring to "... the ART talent company in Mumbai." Ramnath pointed out that the "...company is located in the southern end of the city, far away from the northern suburbs where much of Hindi cinema is created. It’s the first sign of just how delinked the remake is from reality". [4] A review by Cinema Express by Shilajit Mitra entitled "...An amateurish series that puts fun on hold", secondly entitled "Four talent agents bug their clients — and us — in this Netflix series". Opening with "Netflix India has been banging away at a genre it thinks is ultra lucrative: the film industry comedy. It’s a tough sell" and concluding "These agents need critics... someone to tell them they aren’t any good". [5] As noted by Pinkvilla review by Radhika Seth; "Waited for this moment for so many years", her performance lauded by fans. [6] According to a Dmtalkies review by Anoushka Sinha; "While the star-studded episodes manage to pique the audience’s interest in the show, it fails to make them deeply connect with the agents who are core to the storyline. Except for a few cliché comments on how “ruthless this industry gets” or the minimal attention given to the lives of struggling actors, the series misses out on most things that the audience would like to know about Bollywood." [7]

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References

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