Season 1 – The Empire

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Shailendra K @RT24327346 Aug 20 Fans of the Empire podcast from historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand should find the Empire series as a pretty decent attempt of telling the story of the creation of of the Mughal Empire. Nikkhil Advani's series is based on Alex Rutherford's (Diana and Michael Preston) novel series Empire of the Moghul, hence mixes real history with some fiction. The broad story, characters, their fates is pretty accurate and Advani does a good job of casting the key characters of the series. Kunal Kapoor is pretty convincing as Babur and is supported very well by Shabana Azmi as his ambitious and ruthless mother. Drashti Dahmi also does a great job as his sister, along with Rahul Dev as his general and Sahher Bambba as his love interest. The biggest casting surprise is Dino Morea who has truly matured as an actor after a pretty average time in movies over the last 2 decades. His portrayal of the vicious Shaibani Khan is on point. Dino manages to bring out Shaibani's psychotic behaviour along with his hidden human characteristics as the series progresses. Imaad Shah (Naseeruddin Shah's son) is also pretty good. For me Kalliroi Tzaifeta and Toranj Kayvon were odd choices to play Babur's step mom and 2nd wife because of their accents and slightly stiff acting. The story is good and the overall series is fast and gripping. The VFX and battle scenes is a bit of a hit and miss. Some of the sets, scenes and sequences are pretty good but then there are some that are pretty underwhelming. Which is probably one of the reasons, the series was pretty widely panned on release and didn't get renewed for additional seasons on the stories of subsequent Mughal Emperors. The Empire is not a great series but it is pretty interesting and decently made. Overall a good watch. 7/10 See more Read all reviews

The Empire — Season 1

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