TVF’s ‘Tripling’ (Season 01)…A Trippin’ Experience.

After a lot of compulsion from my roommate, I finally watched TVF’s Tripling, and well, what can I say, I just loved it!

The web series runs for just five episodes, each about twenty minutes long, and the very fact that there is a definite end to this show is itself a novelty in a country where tv series run on for years and years without a break.
The story is nothing new that we haven’t seen before — a road trip, that brings together people who haven’t seen each other in years, and magically solves problems but in Triplings, the difference is that, it is with your siblings, and it all starts out just because the youngest one, Chitvan, (a hilarious Amol Parashar) doesn’t have money to pay his off car’s EMI, and decides to escape from the goons the bank sends to his house to collect the money.

The treatment of this story and it’s execution seems to release all the repressed creativity and anger writers must have had while watching our stale soap operas, all these years. The plot has more than enough cussing, rolled joints, alcohol, and brownies, that seem like a big middle finger to the Indian television industry, whose ideas and amount of jewellery on a person seems to be stuck in the 19th century. This story could even be of Chanchal’s (Manvi Gagroo) escape from her royal in-laws' world when she scoffs, Hume har cheez ka jashan kyun manana hai? (why do we need to celebrate every little occasion.)

So we get a scene around a bonfire, in the middle of the desert, where Chanchal discusses her sex life with her brothers, and in another, Chanchal’s mother (Shernaz Patel), ends up giving marijuana filled brownies to her son-in-law (Kunaal Roy Kapoor) and then later at dinner, the whole family is gorging on those same brownies.

None of these scenes come up with any form of judgement for these characters (and thankfully no dramatic music and reaction shots of every.single.character). The series is a fresh breath of air with witty dialogues, beautiful cinematography, and fun characters and finally something for our generation to watch from our country, instead of looking for good shows from the outside.

These Indian web series are now all the rage, and while I have arrived here late, I don’t think I will be leaving anytime soon.