‘Shantit Kranti’ review: Snark and self-help lessons as three friends navigate adulthood

 Three grown-up men who have been companions for quite a long time jump into a vehicle and head to Goa. It isn't Dil Chahta Hai however a Marathi web series that pays affectionate praise to the film on its twentieth commemoration even as it outlines its own objective. 

Shreyas, Dinar and Prasanna are numerous years from when they originally watched Dil Chahta Hai in Pune. Presently well into adulthood yet profoundly thinking twice about it, the threesome take the respected course to edification – an excursion. 

Shreyas (Abhay Mahajan) has been unloaded by his fiancee inexplicably just to him. Dinar (Alok Rajwade) drinks a great deal excessively and doesn't seem to have a feeling of direction. Prasanna (Lalit Prabhakar) gets a definitive admonition that his childhood has finished: his better half will have a child. 

Brew, sea shores and Goa call. Be that as it may, Shreyas, who is gaining a frantic gleam in his eye, drives rather to Shantivan, a contemplation retreat in Lonavala. In the middle of profound breathing meetings and back-to-nature works out, the threesome figures out how to acknowledge that young men can't remain young men until the end of time. 

Shantit Kranti is the most recent web series from the Marathi YouTube channel Bharatiya Digital Party. Established by Sarang Sathaye, Paula McGlynn and Anusha Nandakumar, the channel referred to its fans as BhaDiPa carries out comic draws that humorously send up Marathi habits. 

For Shantit Kranti, the organizers have combined up with their Hindi partner The Viral Fever. Coordinated by Sathaye and McGlynn, the six-scene series is out on Sony LIV. 

As overstretched as it is unambitious, Shantit Kranti scarcely develops its subjects. Disrespectful humor and charming characters guide the scenes through patches of triviality and unlimited references to Dil Chahta Hai. 

The ideal re-visitation of an undeveloped state by men who have scarcely grown up themselves yields various laugh uncontrollably minutes. Zingers and quotable abuses fly thick and quick between the companions, who are totally credible in their self-exacted wretchedness and their dependability towards one another. 

The snarky outside yields a shockingly delicate center. Two of the men have daddy issues, while the third will be a dad himself. So it isn't completely astounding that the underlying jeering at the ashram's self-actualisation techniques offers approach to acknowledgment and accommodation. The unrest guaranteed by the title ends up being another guileful joke. 

Aside from incredible exhibitions by Abhay Mahajan, Alok Rajwade and Lalit Prabhakar, the series has noteworthy turns by Shikha Talsania, as the director of the retreat, and Vijay Nikam as a puzzling intelligence rambling soul. Suhita Thatte has a short however vital appearance as a lamenting lady who shapes a bond with Prabhakar's Prasanna.