Do You Wanna Partner Review
Director: Archit Kumar and Collin D’Cunha
Date Created: 2025-09-13 01:05
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Do You Wanna Partner Review: Prime Video series brings together a glamorous cast and a light-hearted premise that blends friendship, ambition, and the messy world of business. Directed by Archit Kumar and Collin D’Cunha, the show stars Tamannaah Bhatia and Diana Penty in the lead, supported extremely well by Jaaved Jaaferi, Nakuul Mehta, Shweta Tiwari, Neeraj Kabi, Rannvijay Singha, Sufi Motiwala and others. With eight half-hour episodes, the series is short enough to consume over a weekend. It is a female-centric story of best friends with big dreams in a male-dominated field.
Do You Wanna Partner Review
The series is about best friends Shikha (Tamannaah Bhatia) and Anahita (Diana Penty) as they embark on selling a hip and quirky craft beer business. It’s a business move, but also one of living up to family expectations and challenging gendered stereotypes and taking lives into their own hands again. The vision at the beginning was an ambitious idea, but it soon became a crazy roller-coaster ride of combat with tough foes, mortgage problems and resentment towards women who are making a niche for themselves in the alcohol industry.
Do You Wanna Partner is a female buddies show. The lead chemistry is fizzy and credible, and that’s the best of the show. The fights, the banter, and the hanging together are convincingly staged, and that’s why we believe in them, even if the story gets predictably clichéd at times. There’s the straight-up bravado of Tamannaah Bhatia and Diana Penty’s serenity and calm. The two complement each other and bring to life what is an unusual pair in believability. The acting is percolating above the substandard script. There’s zing coming from the supporting cast. Jaaved Jaaferi, of course, is a whirlwind of guffaws and tears as the crazy one.
Shweta Tiwary is excellent in her gaudy role, but I wish they had developed her role a bit better. Neeraj Kabi is sober and sombre in his acting, though what should feel like villainy can be slightly subdued. Sufi Motiwala is a pleasant surprise; he seems assured, comfortable on screen and endearing. He lends a catchiness to the film, occasionally stealing scenes with his effortless charisma. He is so impressive that he emerges as the friend everyone would want to have in life: reliable, supportive and a blast. And Rannvijay Singha, playing the steady bro figure, provides a much-needed emotional grounding to this much-ado-about-nothing show.
No one can complain about the high-gloss production. Every frame looks buffed, providing the show with a shiny, ravenous quality that productions backed by Asylum are accustomed to. And the notion of women bursting into the man’s world like beer is attractive. The producers attempt to bring both the risks and cul-de-sacs of business, as well as the blatant and dismissive sexism women encounter.
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Another thing that pays off big is the lightness. Unlike many a drama that also tries its best to preach empowerment, the Do You Wanna Partner series doesn’t go overboard with it, adding in humour and drama and friendship goals all alike. The entire package figures out to be a good time that’s not so difficult to solve; at least the viewer hopefully won’t need to think too hard, just remain loose and enjoy.
That’s not to say the show is flawless, however. Although the concept is wonderful, the implementation is not. The majority of the issues resolved in this area are slightly too easy or unrealistic, and at times, that detracts from the hit. For instance, some of the issues faced by the women are sometimes resolved very easily or bluntly, and that diminishes their issues as well. And that’s only one issue: sometimes the writing is not very solid. There were times when the show appeared to go deeper into plots of “betrayal, financial straits, and institutional sexism before suddenly, jarringly, breezily taking a situational turn.
Generally, that makes Prime Video’s Do You Wanna Partner less rich and complex than a drama that it could have been. I preferred the earlier episodes personally a little more. To myself, the original idea was wonderful: women in business against a male-dominated industry. But by the latter half, some of the showdowns became repetitive and uninspired. None of the would-be “villains” were ever frightened enough, and sometimes I was way more interested in the friends’ interference in each other’s business than their plots against one another.
What continued to keep me glued, though, was the chemistry of the leads and the feistiness of the supporting cast. I also appreciated how it giddily observed female friendship without having to overstay its welcome. In general, it is light and airy, and while it won’t blow one away, it’s a trouble-free weekend watch.
Prime Video Do You Wanna Partner Review: Summing Up
This show is not the best, but it is also not the worst out there. It finds a workable middle road: sexy, stylish and leavened with strong performances that are undercut by weak writing and predictable plotting. Just keep your expectations low, and you’ll have a great time. Consider this one in terms of a light beer on a hot summer afternoon, not the best craft beer universe, but it gets the job done.
