Bad Boy Billionaires: India (2020)
A 3-episode docu-series, each about Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi & Subrata Roy.
Streaming on Netflix.
This whole docu-series tells stories which are too good to be true. The show captures the largeness of life, through the lens of wealth, power and megalomania - it reinforces our nihilistic outlook on the world reminding us of how inconsequential we are in the larger scheme of things. We could look at it in another way, nobody is free of problems - everyone is trying to solve problems in life, no matter how wealthy they are - so we might as well create problems which we'd love solving - pursuing what we love. Although I wished this show explored more into the psychology of these people, I had questions like - if given a chance would they do it all over again? Would they change anything? Do they have regrets? Vijay Mallya celebrating his birthday lavishly even after not paying his employees, tells us about his brutally unapologetic attitude.
This series falls into a territory which has a worldview that there are no shortcuts in life, and that playing slow and steady wins the race. Telling stories of a few billionaires who went wrong, is pro-socialist worldview. We should definitely not feel good about rich people going to jail, and feel good about ourselves - I'm sure a lot of people would trade lives with them if given a chance. This show is important, it tells us a lot of things - to not put all our eggs in one basket, to be ready to face a life where all of our savings are turned into ash - this is what a lot of people faced when things went wrong. This show explores the human condition, about how people gain trust and how much people can trust, blindly. The way they gain people's trust is intense - they brainwash you to an extent where you'd defy everyone around you and believe that, that's the only person or that's the only scheme that'd get you out of your misery. It feels like life is giving you one shot.
After watching this, and having faced bad experiences myself - I still believe that unless you are risking your whole life into something, you should definitely take chances in life and experience things. Whether they'll work or not, we'll at least have rich life experiences and these experiences will help us in ways we won't even think about. Having said this, if something feels too good to be true - it probably is.
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