Her husband a vivid cook covers up for her. There’s a wife who doesn’t know cooking, but is pro at her professional career. What also wins in Potluck is the approach towards the characters. The imperfections that define every member and the misbalance between them even if they try with all force to keep things on track. Potluck at the base is about a father trying to build a happy long-lasting relationship with his kids and their families, but if you scratch below the surface it is also an ode to the greys in all the relationships. But all of them are held together by the father who is greedy enough to fake a heart attack so his kids could agree for a family dinner every weekend. Every section have their own set of conflicts, struggles and redemption. Writers Ashwin Lakshmi Narayan, Gaurav Lulla, and Bharat Misra in Potluck create a grid and in each box stays one section of a big joint family. Potluck takes us inside one such elite family that comes on one table to have dinner and the chaos happens. From Sooraj Barajtya’s always happy joint family, to Baghban’s over emotional division, to the imperfections within a nuclear family in Kapoor, we have indeed come a long way. Take the portrayal of families in cinema for instance. Family values and the constitution to them has seen numerous amendments to them.
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