The envious Arya picks Bhagat's book off the top perch on a bestsellers rack and replaces it with his own book not once but twice - once in a Gurgaon bookstore, and then at the Delhi airport. Madhavan), is a pulp fiction writer forever playing catch-up with Chetan Bhagat (who, as himself, pops up at regular intervals to show the protagonist his place in the popularity pecking order).ĭecoupled presents "the pecking order", like a lot else in the series, in drably literal terms. Their primary concern is to insulate their daughter but they also debate the timing of the announcement of their decoupling, of the change of the woman's Facebook relationship status and of the moves that they must make to look beyond the marriage. The affluent Gurgaon couple decide to go their own ways but do not know how to break the news to their 12-year-old daughter and to the woman's parents in Mumbai. There isn't much percentage in swimming in shallow waters, is there? The wit is weightless and the 'battle of the sexes' truths the series seeks to articulate are anything but illuminating. To cut the long sentence short, a man and his wife realise that they aren't made for each other and, with their marital liaison hitting choppy waters, they are determined to make their separation an even steeper mountain than their marriage.
What is the big deal?ĭecoupled is akin to a long sentence that meanders until it finds a paragraph to disappear into and is then reduced to an insignificant fraction of a monotonous, circumambulatory chapter. It skims the surface of a relationship gone kaput under the weight of innate incompatibility and unmet expectations. The Hardik Mehta-helmed series, created and written by Manu Joseph, is an empty shell of a tale. Kramer and An Unmarried Woman, et al) spotlighted divorce and its consequences. It has no chance of ever being spoken of in the same breath as the long line of wonderful films that have (think Scenes from a Marriage, Marriage Story, Shoot the Moon, A Separation, Kramer vs. It drifts and disintegrates.ĭecoupled is fatuous and vacuous by turns. Unfortunately, the show is a tad like a moribund marriage. Cast: R Madhavan, Surveen Chawla, Arista Mehta, Darren Eric Scott, Akash Khurana, Aseem Hattangady, Mir Afsar Ali, Freisha Bomanbehram, Dilnaz IraniĪ bickering married couple, neither Bergmanesque nor Baumbachesque, navigate mounting acrimony and prepare for divorce in Decoupled, a Netflix series produced by Bombay Fables and Vikramaditya Motwane's Andolan.
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