10 /10

If you hated this show and gave it a bad rating or review because you felt it hit too close to home and portrayed religion in the extreme, then I'm sorry to say, you're the problem not this show, or the story it tells.



With shades of The Handmaids Tale and similar dystopian tales, Leila portrays Indian society at its most extreme. In a society divided by caste, creed, religion, caste and economic disparity, a women struggles to find her daughter who was taken away from her. This is the basic premise of the story and we see most of the show through the lead actors (Huma Quereshi) point of view as she traverses the new religious, physical, economical and geographical landscape of this fictional land, which has been built on the principles pf purity and segregation.



If this struck a chord, it is because it was meant to be a mirror to Indian society. If you felt one community was shown as better than the other, you're not only wrong, you missed the whole point of the show! It shows us what a slippery slope intolerance can be. And honestly, after watching this show when i came to imdb and saw the poor rating, it only confirmed my worst fears, intolerance has truly taken grip!!!! If you can't even accept a fictional story that warns of the dangers of segregation and dividing people, you truly are beyond saving! Because honestly, whether your arguments are right or wrong, the fact that you get offended by another point of view, only proves how narrow minded and full of hate you have already become. This show is set in the future, a bleak and dark future, but if this is how you react to a TV show depicting that, i'd say the future is sadly coming in at full speed and far sooner than we would like!



To those who have not seen the show but have an open mind that can appreciate drama, and if you enjoyed The Handmaids Tale, then do give this a look at, cos its different, its scary, its honest and its quite frankly the need of the hour!