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A lightweight Bollywood industry comedy with a decent premise, but it never fully sharpens into a memorable character study or a consistently funny workplace farce. The setup has some charm, yet the execution feels modest and disposable compared with stronger Indian dramedies.
19% (11,112)
Where to watch: Buy
2018 · ★ 19% (11.1K)
Starring: Gauahar Khan, Arjun Kanungo, Kunaal Roy Kapur
The story of Kunaal Roy Kapur, aka the older brother of heartthrob actor Aditya Roy Kapur and younger brother of producer par excellence Siddharth Roy Kapur. Kunaal is the picture perfect side hero in both his reel life and real life too. When an ambitious passion project finds no takers and results in Kunaal losing his only worldly possession, a family house, he finds shelter with his new manager Beera, the most successful manager for animal actors in Bollywood.
Ramesh Sippy Entertainment
Gauahar Khan, Arjun Kanungo, Kunaal Roy Kapur
A lightweight Bollywood industry comedy with a decent premise, but it never fully sharpens into a memorable character study or a consistently funny workplace farce. The setup has some charm, yet the execution feels modest and disposable compared with stronger Indian dramedies.
SideHero has a fun enough premise: a perennial supporting-player type gets pushed into the center of the story, and the show uses that angle to poke at Bollywood vanity and the machinery around it. The animal-actor manager setup gives it a quirky hook, and there are moments where the self-aware industry humor lands.
But the series feels more like a modest sketch of an idea than a fully developed sitcom or dramedy. The jokes are uneven, the dramatic beats are thin, and the show doesn’t build enough momentum to turn its premise into something essential.
If you like easygoing, low-commitment Indian comedy and don’t mind a show that stays fairly small in ambition, it’s watchable. For most viewers, though, there are better, sharper alternatives in the same broad lane.
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Bollywood, show business, underdog identity, family pressure, career frustration, self-image, workplace comedy, fame culture
Indian comedy, industry satire, dramedy, showbiz, underdog, workplace, lighthearted, Bollywood, short-form binge, 2010s