The Royals Web Series Review
on May 13, 2025
Cast: Bhumi Pednekar, Ishaan Khatter, Zeenat Aman, Sakshi Tanwar, Nora Fatehi, Vihaan Samat, Dino Morea, Milind Soman, Chunky Panday, Kavya Trehan, Luke Kenny, Sumukhi Suresh
Crew:
Created by Rangita Pritish Nandy, Ishita Pritish Nandy
Written by Neha Veena Sharma
Directed by Priyanka Ghose, Nupur Asthana
Produced by Pritish Nandy
OTT Platform: Netflix
No: of Episodes: 08
Genre: Romantic comedy, Drama
Language: Hindi
Netflix has been creating original content for Indian audiences and they have been working on cracking a big hit series in recent times after some initial super successful ones. Now, they have roped in Bhumi Padnekar, Ishaan Khatter, Zeenat Aman kind of big names in this new series, The Royals. Pritish Nandy, who has been producing some successful web series has produced this one. Let's discuss about the series at length.
Plot:
In Morpur, when a royal Maharaja Yuvnath Singh (Milind Soman) dies all of a sudden, leaving his son, prince Aviraaj Singh (Ishaan Khatter). He is known as Fizzy, a model in New York. His mother Rani Padmaja (Sakshi Tanwar) forces him to stay back and take care of family financial troubles.
Ma Sahiba (Zeenat Aman) cut away from normal life issues, keeps all her hopes on Fizzy, too. He accepts to meet the CEO of Royal B&B, Sofia Kanmani Shekhar (Bhumi Padnekar). She specializes in a hospitality firm that gives middle-class people, Royal life for few days along with real Royal families in real palaces. What happens next? Watch the series to know more.
Analysis:
Pritish Nandy produced a successful series like Four More Shots Please! and he is back with The Royals. While the premise of converting a Royal palace into a B&B hotel of sorts in innovative. But the premise needed much more interesting sub-plots to really interest us about the characters and the acceptance of Royal families about the real life issues. While the series tries to be a funny take on the same, it never really grows more than a surface level "trying-hard-to-please" comedy.
The fascination with Royal lifestyle among few wealthy people and the kind of B&B a palace could be turned into, the guests and the kind of interactions the original Royals would have and the way everything needs to be managed, there are many possibilities in the premise. But the writers under utilise the potentiality, criminally. It almost feels like makers dropped the idea of producing a proper sarcastic drama to accomodate a love story and main protagonist's other interests.
The screenplay jadedly runs through certain ideas and then runs in circles around several simple and regular plotlines with some characters being wasted. The comic potential of a senior actress like Zeenat Aman and a seasoned performer like Sakshi Tanwar, go to waste in this over-the-top sleazy drama as we dig deeper. The series needed a much better and much proper build into the lives of these Royals and the kind of start-up Bhumi's character is offering.
While the premise is interesting enough, the novelty wears off as we fall into the same issues related fixing drama and romance that doesn't have any teeth. The comic relief that few moments really provide is appreciable yet, the story spread over 8 episodes feel laborous to watch after a point. On the whole, the series could have benefitted with better and imaginative writing while technically and productional values wise it is decent.
Bottom-line:
Un-Royally boring and too sloggy.
Rating: 2/5
Disclaimer:
The views/opinions expressed in this review are personal views/opinions shared by the writer and organisation does not hold a liability to them. Viewers' discretion is advised.
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