Prime Video has taken an unconventional approach to marketing its first Indian Amazon Original Movie, a musical drama. Maya Mafeaturing Bollywood royalty Madhuri Dixit Nene. Before releasing the first trailer on Thursday, the streamer revealed a colorful music video that teased the movie’s holiday tone.
Maya Ma tells the story of a middle-class woman named Pallavi (Dixit Nene), whose perfectly structured family life begins to fall apart days before her son’s wedding. Film director Anand Tiwariwho had previously worked with Prime Video on a musical drama series. bandit bandits. He also directed the romantic comedy love per square foot for Netflix.
Maya Ma reunites him with his bandit bandits star Ritvik Bhowmik, who plays Tejas, an “ordinary guy” from a small town in India. Tejas seems to resent his father, who is not as educated as he is, and constantly fights with his sister. But he loves his mother. He is also concerned that he does not get along with the family of the woman he is about to marry. Her family turns out to be comparatively richer than his own, which creates a conflict of class division. In India, as the trailer says, “marriages are between families” and not just between individuals.
But things take a serious turn when a mysterious video of Pallavi goes viral, disrupting Tejas’ planned wedding. This is when Pallavi takes matters into her own hands and declares that she is more than a wife, mother and daughter; she has her own personality and will leave no stone unturned to get the wedding back on track.
Maya Maappears to be aimed at a global audience. And it makes sense considering this is the first Indian original film produced by Prime Video; the streamer has certainly released many Indian films in the past, but these were acquisitions. Maya Ma this is how Western viewers imagine Bollywood films to be - colorful, dramatic and filled with artfully choreographed musical numbers. More mainstream rainy season weddingif you will be.
It doesn’t hurt that Dixit Nene is one of Bollywood’s biggest stars. An icon of 90s Hindi cinema known for her dancing skills, Dixit Nene quit cinema and settled in the US with her family for a few years before returning to India and resuming her acting career over a decade ago. She made her streaming debut earlier this year with the Netflix thriller series. glory game. To international audiences, she may be best known for her BAFTA-nominated drama. Devdasalso starring Shahrukh Khan as well as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Maya Ma also stars Barha Singh, Shrishti Srivastava, Rajit Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sheeba Chadda, Malhar Takar as well as Ninad Kamat. The film will be released on Prime Video on October 6th. You can watch the trailer and music video here, and follow Collider for updates.
Source: Collider
