In a hyperactive, incessantly digitised, alarmingly AI-driven landscape, it would be highly favourable to create a period drama without much hassle. A fitting answer to dropping attention spans would be to transport everyone to a vintage life in early ‘70’s Bombay, reimagining its streets on green screens, making the sun set over dramatic orange hues over the gateway, and having people wear salwar kameez, boot cut jeans, and squared glasses as they don tacky prosthetics and speak a heavily Bollywood-ised Hindustani. It would be easy to slip into the pitfalls of Indian streaming and substitute stillness with chaos by producing a show that is carefully planned and not mindfully crafted. Yet, Made in India: A Titan Story(Based on Vinay Kamath’s book Titan: Inside India’s Most Successful Consumer Brand) takes the other route by disregarding the traps of algorithmic storytelling, avoiding cliches, and building a narrative rooted in joy and wonder.There’s a focus on bringing every moment to life from the start. Like the manner in which the protagonist Xerxes Desai (Jim Sarbh) is introduced in the opening scene, as he amicably negotiates with a bunch of protesting workers outside his office. There’s a glimpse into his humane, empathetic side as well as his sharp interpersonal instincts as he skilfully convinces his superiors about the workers’ demands. A strong underdog tenacity resides in these early scenes that forms a vivid picture of Desai as he returns to Bombay after five years of regular work on desk. As he says to JRD Tata (Naseeruddin Shah), he wants to be challenged.Made in India – A Titan Story (Hindi)Director: Robbie GrewalCast: Jim Sarbh, Naseeruddin Shah, Vaibhav Tatwawadi, Namita Dubey, Lakshvir Singh Saran, Kaveri SethDuration: 45-53 minutesEpisodes: 6Synopsis: The ambitious Xerxes Desai plans on building a top-class watch brand, which is made in India, employing a team of passionate people as he deals with the pressure and solves problems with his sharpness.The screenplay displays a charming pattern of cause and effect as Desai stumbles upon the idea of making watches during a conversation. Writers Karan Vyas, Kandarp Shroff and Niraj Dasa design scenes which are not perpetually in a rush to take the plot ahead. Like how Desai keeps asking for work to his colleagues as he returns to the head office. Even his conversations with his much younger friend, Akash (a sincere Vaibhav Tatwawadi) unfold interestingly as the two fight, argue and mend their relationship along the way while vowing to not wear any other watch till they build their own, which they eventually name Titan. Time, for them, remains sedentary.Ironically, as Akash strives to make his own ‘time’, his aged father begins to lose his sense of it, as the symptoms of alzheimer’s worsen. Akash’s father is stuck in the past, always asking him about his previous job and whether he is happy. The erosion of time and its impact on memory are briefly touched upon in some of these portions, even though the fragments don’t particularly merge well.