Unsorted: Modern Day Take On How Love, Dilemma And Ambitions Collide

We've come across multiple stories around modern love and new-age relationships, and what it takes to keep them alive. While we live them alongside reliving them with a click away on OTT now, there's always a distinctive relatability with every story. Disney+ Hotstar's recently released series 'Unsorted' is one such relatable theme.

Unsorted is an attempt at surfacing the dilemmas youngsters face in their modern-day romance, how their ambitions and personal choices collide and what it takes for them to balance it all.

Unsorted Review

The plot isn't an unexpected one. At the onset, it's the same-old attempt at highlighting relationship dilemmas, however, it wouldn't be a wasteful one hour watch. It brings ambition, dreams, and hard choices into play, and there's a certain agreeable notion to every character from the word go.

Set in Mumbai, the story explores the lives of Tara (Mugdha Agarwal), Seher (Tanya Singh Bhatnagar) and Naman (Vikram Bhui). The narrative begins with how Tara and Naman, in a long-term relationship, face challenges when they’re met with major life-changing decisions and enters Seher to add to the dilemma. A love triangle leads to complications, and this is what transpires when the trio navigates between choice and destiny.

It would be unfair to give away the entire narrative of the series, after all, it's a three-episode watch and, must I say, a smart move from the makers' end.

Written and directed by Rahul Bhatnagar, the mini-series displays utmost confusion in the character's decision-making moments, and the actors Mugdha Agarwal, Tanya Singh Bhatnagar and Vikram Bhui justify the portrayals of their characters, especially at life-altering moments in the plot. With human ">relationships as the integral soul of the story, the writing makes us think more about all aspects most of us deal with in our regular lives - professional aspirations, personal connections, and the inevitable need to maintain a balance between the two.

It's interesting to watch not just the three actors but also the supporting cast play their characters honestly. They are convincing enough to an extent that you start to feel the emotions along with them.

I wouldn’t say that such stories haven’t made the OTT circle in the past few years, they have and exceptionally so. One may even not agree with a few twists in between. However, that doesn’t undermine Unsorted’s attempt at showcasing yet another with similar intention and ability. 

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