Live Telecast review: Kajal Aggarwal's show is comedy in disguise of horror

After facing immense pressure on their horror show being shut down, a TV crew decides to start a new horror show where they capture ghosts live on camera. That is when the idea of Live Telecast comes into play. However, things take a turn for the worse when they encounter a real ghost.

Live Telecast

Lights, camera, please stop already, is what I felt after watching every single episode of Kajal Aggarwal's web show Live Telecast. The seven episodes, each demanding half an hour of your life (one also demanding 40 minutes) is a journey to nowhere. Venkat Prabhu thought he was making a horror show but honestly, it is nothing more than a comedy show.

Live Telecast's first episode is a plain introduction of the characters. Kajal Aggarwal is shown as a glamorous director who is pampered by her crew. Every person puts up with her tantrums and there is absolutely no reasonable explanation to validate their submissive behaviour.

There is little to understand in the first episode and it only manages to irritate you. Not just demanding, Aggarwal's character is supposed to be a strong woman who calls out the truth. She, in fact, is so blunt that she resonates with what we feel about the first episode by stating "Enough of this bullshit".

As the show progresses, you try and grasp the concept but nothing really clicks. At first the makers recreated ghost stories and this time they recreated it in a haunted house. What's the difference, you ask? Like Aggarwal says, this time it is 'Live Telecast'. Not that the buildup was great, but the supposed Live Telecast was even more disappointing.

Was Prabhu sure he was directing a horror show? Because Live Telecast has more comical moments and more than enough poker-face ones, than horror itself. Honestly, if you want to really watch a horror story, search for paranomal activity and you might actually get a scare or two, compared to the special effects and clearly fake ghosts Live Telecast provides. Half the episodes of the show are dedicated to some comical moments featuring the 'ghost', while the other half seems too forced and predictable and isn't even Vikram Bhatt level scary.

Although I do appreciate a backstory of the real ghost, Chinna, there are unwanted moments like the backstory of the assistant commissioner going on a killing spree, all by himself. Although the show eventually makes us understand why that part was important, it needed better execution and a tighter screenplay to justify the plot, if there was one to begin with.

Want to waste four hours of your life with trauma? Then Live Telecast is the perfect watch for you.

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