Tamanna's TV Picks - Honest Deep Dive on Popular Talk Show Koffee with Karan Season 7
“Watch it for some fun elements and ignore the rest.” We are excited to share another installment of Tamanna’s TV Picks! This week, an honest and thoughtful review of Koffee with Karan - Season 7! What are you binge watching this Fall? Let us know in the comments!
The popular and controversial show Koffee with Karan is back with season 7 on Hotstar (Disney Plus). Have you seen previous seasons of Koffee with Karan? If not, you should because this season has nothing new to offer. Previous seasons were much better. Watching the same guests over and over gets boring. But if you are a star struck person then you should definitely watch it. At Least the show is better than his mushy movies!
Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh graced his couch for the first episode. Alia is cute as always and funny at times and Ranveer is a delight with his goofiness and easy going persona. His colorful attire matched perfectly with the ambience of the Koffee set! Karan has declared Alia as the best actress in the country in the following episodes and got grilled in the last episode for his over the top Alia's obsession. Though he deserves full credit for launching the immensely talented Alia Bhatt. So I am not surprised that he is very proud of the fact that sometimes nepotism pays off!
This word 'Nepotism' gained a new meaning after kangna Ranaut dropped the Nepo bomb in one of the previous seasons of KKWK and since then poor guy is still choking in the smoke of this bomb. Though Kangana Ranaut was not invited in this season for obvious reasons, Karan didn't seem to get over her allegations. In pretty much every episode he spoke about it and asked his guests to express their views about the same. Such is Kangana's presence on the show that she was there but not literally. Not only did Karan accept the fact that he is a big Daddy of Bollywood, he sportingly takes all the jokes and memes that come his way for the same.
Coming back to the guests, there are a few new additions this time like Kriti Sanon, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Vijay Deverakonda to name a few. The debutantes brought some freshness to the show with their witty answers and spontaneity. Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s confidence and Kriti Sanon’s no pretense avatar was impressive. Akshay Kumar's innocent referral to Instagram filters as fillers was hilarious in the context he said it.
Biggest disappointment was Kareena kapoor. She got completely overshadowed by Aamir khan and she played very safe in rapid fire round. So unlike her. Kareen, where is your spunk?
Sonam kapoor was hilarious. She seemed to suffer from pregnancy induced amnesia and came up with funny names for some upcoming movies. Varun Dhawan and Anil Kapoor stole the show for being the most entertaining duo in this series (I wonder how their wives would have received them after they revealed some bedroom secrets, especially Varun). Sara Ali Khan and Jhanvi Kapoor gave friendship goals. Their banter regarding Vijay Deverakonda was quite amusing and so were their travel stories. Jhanvi Kapoor seems to be shedding her inhibitions. She is coming out of her shell. Not a timid coy girl anymore. Subtle references to Kartik Aryan cannot be ignored too in many episodes though I wonder why he was not invited?
Katrina Kaif appeared very comfortable with Ishaan Khattar and Sidhant Chaturvedi who were smitten by her but held on their own. I wish her smile was less plastic. Too much botox/fillers apparently!. Sidhant's rapid fire answers were simply the best. Gauri Khan was invited with Bhavana Pandey and Maheep Kapoor. It just took one hit show and that too produced by Karan Johar for Bhavana Pandey and Maheep kapoor to get an invitation! Nepotism in the show too?
When you tune in to watch such chat shows, you are not expecting deep, philosophical discussions or anything cerebral but honestly I am not interested in celebrities' sex lives either which Karan Johar seems to deeply care about. This used to be a fun family show which it is not anymore!
Karan made it look like Kiara Advani's only achievement has been her relationship with Sidharth Malhotra. He spent almost half of the episode making her confess that. There are other ways to make this show entertaining. Be more creative guys! Make us laugh, not cringe!
Watch it for some fun elements and ignore the rest.