{"id":6714,"date":"2016-06-07T13:41:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T08:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2016-06-07T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T08:11:27","slug":"bandish-bandits-can-a-couple-with-nothing-in-common-stay-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6714","title":{"rendered":"Bandish Bandits: Can A Couple With Nothing in Common Stay Together?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arly into the first season of <em>Bandish Bandits<\/em> on Amazon Prime Video, there\u2019s a scene where Radhe, a young singer from a famous gharana in Jodhpur, finds himself at the concert of pop sensation Blue Bandit, aka Tamanna Sharma.\n\nAs the confused small-town boy stands in the crowd, watching the YouTube diva (Shreya Chaudhury) perform a version of her most popular song \u2014 \u201cMastiyapa\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s immediately apparent that the two couldn\u2019t be from more different worlds.\n\nRadhe (Ritwik Bowmik), for one, has already been established as a classically trained singer, who under the guidance of a formidable Panditji, Sangeet Samrat Rathode (Naseeruddin Shah), must devote all his waking moments to perfecting his pitch.\n\nSharma, on the other hand, who has arrived in Jodhpur on a motorcycle, seeking inspiration for her next viral YouTube hit, clearly can\u2019t seem to get through one studio session without the ever-reliable autotune.\n\nWhen the two meet for the first time, backstage after the concert, Radhe is shy, and doesn\u2019t speak much, while Tamanna is talkative and almost dismissive of this country bumpkin. But that changes once she hears Radhe sing. Tamanna is so smitten by his voice \u2014\u00a0and so desperate for a hit \u2014\u00a0that a collective is formed, the Bandish Bandits.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Tamanna is so smitten by Radhe&#8217;s voice \u2014 and so desperate for a hit \u2014 that a collective is formed, the Bandish Bandits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nOver the following nine episodes, the show goes on to track the various circumstances that both bring the couple closer together, and drive them further apart. Supported by a strong side-cast, and the tumultuous inside story of one of Rajasthan\u2019s most renowned families, the viewer soon discovers that apart from their newly-formed side-project, Tamanna and Radhe have little to almost nothing in common.\n\nTamanna is the typical girl from the big city, who smokes cigarettes and dances in \u201cchhote kapde\u201d \u2014 Radhe is the spitting image of an adarsh balak, who\u2019ll do anything to earn the respect of his family. Tamanna\u2019s friends are a group of cosmopolitan and irreverent upstarts, who enjoy their alcohol as well as their sexual innuendo, while teetotaller Radhe, as he innocently confesses a few episodes in, has never kissed a girl.\n\nDespite their contrasting backgrounds, the couple do share some similarities. They are both talented musicians in their own right. Both desperately seek approval \u2014 one from his overbearing grandfather, and the other from her critical mother.\n\nBut these few similarities don\u2019t make up for the fact that the two don\u2019t seem to fit together, for reasons that go beyond Radhe\u2019s disdain for falsettos, and Tamanna\u2019s liberal upbringing. It\u2019s also for these very reasons that their relationship \u2014 both professional and personal \u2014 must be kept a secret from Radhe\u2019s strict family.\n\nThe two young actors do a great job of portraying this \u201cwill-they-won\u2019t-they\u201d couple, at times leaving the viewer wondering whether these are two people who should be together at all, and at other moments endeared by all their differences.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>India is full of stories of star-crossed lovers, united by nothing but their sheer determination to stay together.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nIn fact, chances are that most viewers will find this unlikely pairing highly relatable, because we see relationships like these blossom under our noses all the time. The couple who can\u2019t decide what to order because they don\u2019t like the same food. The one that has different tastes in music, and can\u2019t decide what to play on a road trip. The parents, who despite raising children together, still can\u2019t decide who gets control over the remote. Couples who follow different religions, come from different states \u2014 India is full of stories of star-crossed lovers, united by nothing but their sheer determination to stay together.\n\nAnd similarly in <em>Bandish Bandits<\/em>, we see young Radhe and Tamanna forced to deal with all their differences head on, even though it may seem like an exhausting task at points. Do they eventually have what it takes to pull it off and stay together? That\u2019s an answer only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primevideo.com\/detail\/0PUSB083C59982JHZMXUFYU3JJ?ref_=dvm_pds_gen_in_as_s_gt_dsaallwebpages%7Cm_static-c_c354677679007\">Amazon Prime Video\u2019s <em>Bandish Bandits<\/em><\/a> can give you.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Amazon Prime Video\u2019s Bandish Bandits, we\u2019re introduced to a young couple, who have very little in common, apart from their shared love for music. Despite their differences, however, they manage to persevere, which raises the question: Can a couple with nothing in common stay together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7083],"tags":[3698,7989,10757,6371,228,10758],"class_list":["post-6714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-amazon-prime","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-bandish-bandits","tag-prime-video","tag-relationship","tag-streaming-now"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bandish Bandits: Can A Couple With Nothing in Common Stay Together?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Amazon Prime Video\u2019s Bandish Bandits, we\u2019re introduced to a young couple, who have very little in common, apart from their shared love for music. 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