Voot Web Series: The Raikar Case (9 Apr 2020)

Genre: Crime Thriller Drama
Language: Hindi
Season: 1
No. of Episodes: 7
Running Time: 25-34 minutes

Writer: Karmanya Ahuja, Brijesh Narayan, Chinmay Mandlekar, Anitha Nair
Director: Aditya Sarpotdar

Cast: Atul Kulkarni, Ashwini Bhave, Kunal Karan Kapoor, Parul Gulati, Reena Wadhwa, Honey Kamboj, Manava Naik, Prakash Ramchandani, Vaishnavi Kadam, Neil Bhoopalam, Lalit Prabhakar, Saloni Khanna

Music By: Aditya-Nayantara
Editing By: Kathikuloth Praveen
Cinematography By: Manoj Soni

Introduction:

Woven around an affluent Goan business family, with a powerful and politically connected patriarch, The Raikar Case web series is about the murder investigation of one of the aforesaid family's members, a sixteen years old lad whose father and sister are already dead due to a car accident four years back.

Plot:

The series starts with an assumed suicide scene of Tarun (Honey Kamboj) with his cousin cum favourite person Etasha (Parul Gulati) on spot. But in reality, as per a severe and clotted gash found on the side forehead of Tarun's corpse, the investigating police officer John Pereira (Neil Bhoopalam) declares that his death was caused by murder and not suicide.

As the series unfolds, different variations of the assumed murder scene are played on screen, covering almost all the living members of the Raikar family!

The Raikar family comprises of the following members - Yashwant Naik Raikar (Atul Kulkarni), his wife Sakshi (Ashvini Bhave), his son Mohit (Kunal Karan Kapoor), his daughter, his son's fiancee, his late brother's widow and the murdered lad's mother Lily (Reena Wadhwa), his sister Anandi (Manava Naik), her husband Jagdish Apte (Prakash Ramchandani) and their daughter Manika (Vaishnavi Kadam).

Other people closely associated with their lives are their business lawyer, his wife, a local politician, his son Eklavya (Lalit Prabhakar) and his fiancee Mini (Saloni Khanna).

In regards to the murder, John Pereira establishes the following facts -

- the murder spot was a cliff overlooking the shoreline with the straight view of the lighthous.

- the time of the murder was after 10 pm.

-  Tarun placed twelve phone calls to Etasha in vain few minutes before his murder.

- most of the aforementioned family members had visited Tarun around his murder time and had one or the other motive to commit his murder!

- Raikars are a clan with lots of individual secrets and noone exactly speaks the truth at once.

Given the above-mentioned facts at hand, John Pereira enters into a series of interrogation of all the suspects and starts collecting the victim's missing items like laptop, mobile phone etc. to scoop out important evidences.

Layer by layer, a lot of secrets are revealed and a couple of more assassinations and kidnappings take place, till the real killer is finally revealed.

Watch the series to know the real killer and the aftermath that follows.

Analysis:

It's a well made murder investigation series with a lot of family drama filled with instances of - love, betrayal, ambition, incest, blackmail, fear and repentance.

Thankfully, the series is free of the otherwise customary semi clad foreign tourists scenes on the Goan beaches. The entire focus is on the Raikar family and their associates. Also, there is no nudity.

The well maintained and spacious Raikar's household is quite tastefully done in traditional Goa style. It is eye appeasing.

Atul Kulkarni has expectantly performed as a seasoned actor. Ashwini Bhave has made an impressive comeback after a long gap.

Parul Gulati and Neil Bhoopalam share good chemistry.

Everyone in general has performed well.

The editing and cinematography are taut. But the ending is kind of unimpressive with an unnecessary surprise at the end.

Conclusion:

Though not an edge-of-the-seat thriller, but the series is still a well made engaging watch with every episode peeling off a layer of lie and/or mystery.

Zee5 Movie: Bamfaad (10 Apr 2020)

Genre: Romance Thriller Drama
Language: Hindi
Duration: 102 minutes

Director: Ranjan Chandel

Cast: Aditya Rawal, Shalini Pandey, Vijay Varma, Jatin Sarna, Vijay Kumar, Chandan Anand

Editor: Nitesh Bhatia, Parikshhit Jha
Cinematographer: Piyush Puty

Introduction:

'Bamfaad’ - the word is a North Indian slang for an explosion.

'Bamfaad' - the movie is the debut film of Aditya Rawal, veteran actor Paresh Rawal's son and debut Hindi film of Shalini Pandey, the petite actress of 'Arjun Reddy' (2019)', the recent Telugu blockbuster.

Ever since the announcement of 'Bamfaad' being Anurag Kashyap's upcoming directorial release and given it's name, the movie was expected to be as explosive and unique in treatment like 'Gangs of Wasseypur' (2012), the last mega crime thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap.

However, 'Bamfaad' comes across as a well planned but hastily wrapped up project, perhaps because of the ongoing lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it's expected repercussions.

Even the director in the credits is Ranjan Chandel, a long time assistant director of Anurag Kashyap and not Anurag Kashyap himself, though the credits state that the movie is presented by him!

Plot:

Nasir Jamal aka Naate (Aditya Rawal) is a UP ishtyle intense and daring but misguided youth in Allahabad, who is always loitering with his friends and often involved in random mischief around his college and other surroundings, but always gets saved by the clout and money of his politically connected father (Vijay Kumar), an experienced and stoic personality with Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.

Instead of pursuing any career, Naate looks forward to meet and join Jigar Fareedi (Vijay Varma), the local gangster. But, by some strange stroke of fate, he bumps and falls in love with Neelam (Shalini Pandey), a cute looking nice girl, housed and frequently visited by Jigar!

Not the one to leave his lady love in lurch or to get scared by Jigar, Naate enters into an open tiff with Jigar.

Jigar being a seasoned game player and power figure, in aid with Zahid (Jatin Sarna), one of Naate's groupmates, creates situations which result into Naate killing a person and exploding an electrical transformer, pulling around half of the city in darkness!

Post committing the aforementioned unintended crimes, Naate escapes to Lucknow with Neelam. But his lady love is caught there by the local police and sent back, which brings Naate back to Allahabad, in spite of the the looming threat to his life therein.

In order to safeguard the upcoming elections, an imprisoned political big wig seeks immediate arrest or encounter of Naate.

SP Nagar (Chandan Anand), an honest officer sees this as an opportunity to pressurize Naate's father to turn witness against the aforementioned political figure, in lieu of saving his son's life.

Naate's father agrees to do the SP's bid, but he is shot dead by Jigar's men, right in front of Naate, causing Naate to visit Jigar's den, wherein he shoots and wounds a couple of persons, including Jigar and runs off with Neelam.

They manage to catch a moving train. But Naate boards down the train to finish off his pending duties and asks Neelam to travel till the last station and not board off in between, may what happen. He promises to find her once he is done with his duties!

Later he is shown burying his father and surrendering to the police.

Analysis:

Upon watching the movie, specially it's senseless ending, it becomes quite evident that the majority of the film was already shot, along with a couple of songs and the makers compiled it all to release the film on a web channel.

The film is not bad, but due to the aforesaid limitations, neither it effectively explores the rustic political scenario of UP, nor the live-together-or-die love angle of the lead pair cause and tug to the heartstrings.

The background sound is loud and clear, but the dialogues at times are inaudible and unclear.

In fact, I had to rewind and see a particular scene thrice to understand a word, which sounded like 'murder', but in actuality was 'bhasad', a North Indian slang for ruckus and confusion born out of anger and frustration between parties involved!

On the brighter side, Aditya Rawal has come across as a promising hero with good diction, body language and acting skills.

Post 'Gully Boy' (2019) and 'She', (2020) much more is expected of Vijay Varma. Both he and Jatin Sarna are quite under utilized in the movie.

Vijay Kumar has well enacted the endearing Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb, an almost lost culture both in life and on screen.

Shalini Pandey and other actors have limited timeframe in the movie and all have done justice to their respective roles.

Conclusion:

In spite of all the aforementioned limitations, the movie is definitely a one time watch, for good casting, direction, acting, dialect and art direction.

TVF Web Series: Panchayat (3 Apr 2020)

Genre: Comedy Drama
Language: Hindi
Country of Origin: India
Season: 1
No. of Episodes: 8
Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video
Running Time: 25-35 minutes

Writer: Chandan Kumar
Director: Deepak Kumar Mishra

Cast: Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Jitendra Kumar, Faisal Malik, Chandan Roy, Biswajit Sarkar

Music: Anurag Saikia
Cinematography: Amitabh Singh

Introduction: 

Panchayat repeats the lovable UPite mother-son casting of Neena Gupta and Jitendra Kumar, whose performances were applauded in 'Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan', a recent hit and critically acclaimed Bollywood release.

But Raghubir Yadav, playing the role of the village Pradhan, steals the show, right under everyone's nose, with his all knowing eyes, chaste UP dialect, witty remarks, loving and chiding attitude towards his wife and the overall body language of the village patriarch.

Plot:

Abhishek Tripathi (Jitendra Kumar) an average engineering graduate, in the scenario of no lucrative high paying or high profile job in his kitty, reluctantly accepts the post of the sachiv or secretary of Phullera village panchayat in Uttar Pradesh.

In the remote village of Phullera, though due to the government’s reservation for women in the previous election, the pradhan or head happens to be Manju Devi (Neena Gupta), her husband Brij Bhushan Dubey (Raghubir Yadav) is the one who actually dons the hat of the acting pradhan. He is blindly supported and followed by his up-pradhan aka deputy head Prahalad Pandey (Faisal Malik).

Abhishek's welcoming team comprises of  the aforementioned men and Vikas (Chandan Roy), the office attendanant, a relatively smart and trustworthy guy, committed to his job and well being of his immediate boss aka Abhishek.

Expectantly, during his first year at Phullera, Abhishek comes across myriad idiosyncrasies of the villagers and gets frustrated with the slow pace of life, loneliness and stark difference in the biological clock, as the entire village goes off to sleep by 7:30 pm and considers 9 am as late noon.

But mostly, he is disillusioned about his non-happening life. Unlike his city friends, he has no fun times to post or brag about on social media.

To pass off his extra time and to fulfill his ambition, he asks his best friend Pradeep (Buswajit Sarkar) to courier him the CAT (entrance examination for MBA) courseware and studies for around four hours everyday after the office hours.

Amidst all the comedy and drama around him, eventually he appears for the CAT examination.

You need to see the series to know his result, his decision thereafter and whether or not something happening happened in his life.

Analysis:

Preceeded by Uttar Pradesh based series like - Mirzapur, Rangbaaz and Bhaukaal, which showcased high end usage of abusives, criminal activities and dirty politics in UP, thankfully and refreshingly Panchayat is a far cry from the aforementioned series.

It focuses on the simplicity, illiteracy and the state of non awareness of the people and the government aids and guidelines issued to combat them. In Panchayat, no one is a criminal or harbinger of dismay and unhappiness.

As mentioned in the beginning, Raghubir Yadav is just perfect in his portrayal of the acting pradhan and patriarch. In fact, many a times his style of acting and contemplation resembles that of Amitabh Bachchan!

Neena Gupta has well portrayed the role of hard-working and wise but bossy and illiterate homemaker, who is quite confident of her husband's wealth and power, but keeps both his generosity and over confidence in check.

Chandan Roy is a glee to watch in all his earnestness and obedience.

Jitendra Kumar comes across as a decent but disillusioned city guy who generally believes in bottling up and keeping quite in the face of ridicule that surrounds him.

Rest of the cast has also performed well. The casting is quite apt.

The background music is upbeat and interesting. In the limited given scope, the cinematography is good.

Conclusion: 

If you love to see the comedy and drama ensued out of the following scenarios -

- someone getting a better office chair
- a thief returning the mistakenly stolen article with a sorry note
- a groom in tears and his marriage on the edge of being cancelled because someone called him an 'asshole'
- villagers finding a particular family planning slogan on the wall to be insulting to their child(ren) that took birth after their second child

then Panchayat is your to-watch out series.

Panchayat is also a must-watch for those who enjoy the simple tales of rustic India.

Hotstar Specials Web Series: Special Ops (17 Mar 2020)

Genre: Espionage Thriller
Language: Hindi
Country of Origin: India
Season: 1
No. of Episodes: 8
Running Time: 44-55 minutes

Writer: Neeraj Pandey, Deepak Kingrani, Benazir Ali Fida
Director: Neeraj Pandey, Shivam Nair

Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Vinay Pathak, Parmeet Sethi, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Karan Tacker, Meher Vij, Saiyami Kher, Vipul Gupta, Muzzamil Ibrahim, Sajjad Delafrooz, Sana Khan, Sharad Kelkar, Divya Dutta

Composer: Advait Nemlekar
Cinematographer: Sudheer Palsane, Arvind Singh
Editor: Praveen Kathikuloth

Introduction:

Special Ops is an engaging espionage thriller, constantly shuffling between flash back and present time, to show the years long tedious process involved in locating and nabbing a dangerous terrorist, responsible for masterminding the Indian Parliament attack in 2001, followed by 5 subsequent attacks all over India.

The web series also justifies the need to grant elaborate espionage budgets by demystifying the usage of the same.

Plot:

The series starts with Himmat Singh (Kay Kay Menon), a senior analyst at Research And Analysis Wing (R&AW) being questioned by Mr. Abbas (Parmeet Sethi) and D K Banerjee (Kali Prasad Mukherjee), the two officers handling the inquiry commission established to probe the reasons behind 28 crores worth of expanses incurred by Himmat to establish and run R&AW's UAE desk, ever since there was terrorist attack on the Parliament of India in 2001 by five armed terrorists who got killed on spot.

During the inquiry, at first Himmat flatly refuses to divulge the identities of his 5 hand picked agents and any explanation about the aforementioned expanses, all of whom he had put under the category 'miscellaneous'!

But when the inquiry officers delve deeper into the accounts and case at hand and ask him about his theory behind the Parliament attack and his following discoveries and actions, Himmat re-lives and speaks about his last 19 years, wherein -

- He was the only official with the theory that the Parliament attack was carried out by not 5 but 6 people, the sixth one being Ikhlaq Khan, considered to be a progeny of Himmat's imagination by most of the officials around him.

- He had recruited 5 different agents, 2 ladies and 3 gents and placed them in different middle eastern countries with fool proof identities. These agents were Farooq Ali (Karan Tacker), Ruhani (Meher Vij), Juhi (Saiyami Kher), Bala (Vipul Gupta) and Avinash (Muzzamil Ibrahim) and they were placed as businessman, homemaker, traveller, chef and shooter respectively.

- His quest covered the wide arena of the following locations for the last 19 years - India, Turkey, Jordan, Azerbaijan
Dubai, Tehran, Tbilisi, Istanbul, Amman and Baku.

- Even after meticulous planning and putting their respective lives on risk, his agent(s) missed Ikhlaq Khan by a hair's breadth more than once!

- Alongside, he was also living the simple life of a husband and father, constantly trying but unable to give sufficient time to his family and undergoing the usual perils of a clueless father with a growing-up daughter.

You need to see the series to see how Himmat and his team continue with their quest of catching Ikhlaq Khan and terminating his future terrorism plans, amidst the ongoing inquiry and it's final decision to release no more funds to Himmat and his team.

Analysis:

It's a wonderfully made series with good script, casting, direction, acting and cinematography.

Kay Kay Menon shines throughout the series with his brilliant acting, both as a committed and shrewd RA&W agent and as a worrisome and guilt struck family man.

Rest of the cast has also performed well.

Conclusion:

If you are an espionage thriller enthusiast, then do watch the series for it's brilliant take on solving a mammoth puzzle with the minutest of clues and mildest of links available

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part II 🙂

I am sharing below my pick list with short reviews of 3 Hindi movies that recently released on web channels -

1. House Arrest (15 Nov 2019)
Channel: Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 104 minutes

Short Review: Ali Fazal's self imposed house arrest results into a comedy of errors upon unwanted arrivals of a mysterious package and a nosy journalist.

It's a neat comedy displaying fine nuances of acting by Ali Fazal. He well portrays the psyche and body language of a person who is happy and occupied in the solitary confinement of his beautifully done apartment and abhors the idea of stepping outside the apartment or entertaining any guest!

Jim Sarbh is at his bohemian best and Shriya Pilgaonkar's subtle presence stands out amidst the other restless and/or loud characters.

2. Operation Parindey (28 Feb 2020)
Channel: ZEE5
Genre: Action Thriller
Duration: 50 minutes

Short Review: Based on true events, it's a short movie about a ground breaking prison escape by a dangerous terrorist and a few other prison inmates from a Punjab jail.

It shows how in reality, the police force works in coalition and nabs the escaped convicts and terrorists and compels them to divulge information.

Amit Sadh, Rahul Dev and Aakash Dahiya are the known faces here. They have acted well.

3. Maska (27 Mar 2020)
Channel: Netflix
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Duration: 111 minutes

Short Review: It's a nice, well made, light drama around a loving mother-son duo for their family legacy, the Rustom Cafe. The mother expects her grown up son to improvise it and bring back it's glory of the old days, while the son is star-eyed and desperate about his Bollywood debut. He is even ready to sell the cafe to facilitate the same!

Manisha Koirala is fantastic as the loving and lively mother. She lights up the screen in every frame that she appears. Prit Kamani, the son looks handsome and convincingly plays the part of a lost and simple hearted Parsi boy. It is his debut movie.

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part I -
http://jaimaadurga.blogspot.com/2020/03/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-i.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part III -
http://angrezipicture.blogspot.com/2020/04/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-iii.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part IV -
http://angrezipicture.blogspot.com/2020/04/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-iv.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part V -
http://jaimaadurga.blogspot.com/2020/05/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-vl.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part VI -
http://jaimaadurga.blogspot.com/2020/05/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-vi.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part I 🙂

Watched: Indian Web Series During Lockdown March 2020

Being quite an avid consumer of books of substance in the past and well crafted movies/tv series/web series in the present, the ongoing lockdown prompted me to binge watch quite a few Indian movies and web series.

I am sharing below a release datewise list of 5 such web series with a short intro and review of each. All of them are in Hindi.

1. Rangbaaz (22 Dec 2018), Rangbaaz Phirse (20 Dec 2019)
Channel: ZEE5
Genre: Action Crime Biography
Season: 1 & 2
No. of Episodes: 18
Running Time: 35 minutes

Short Review: Both the sequels depict how the political honchos push the capable youth into the world of crime and provide them protection till they are useful, but terminate them in association with the police, once they are out of their respective personal control.

The first sequel is woven around Uttar Pradesh, while the second one is woven around Rajasthan.

Saqib Saleem's performance in Rangbaaz is his best till date, while Ranvir Shorey is expectantly good. Jimmy Shergill has acted good in Rangbaaz Phirse, but Sushant Singh is simply awesome.

2. Asur (2 Mar 2020)
Channel: Voot
Genre: Mythological Thriller, Serial Murders, Dark
Season: 1
No. of Episodes: 8
Running Time: 36-61 minutes

Short Review: It's a dark thriller exploring forensic science and ancient Indian Mythology. It's kind of haunting and very well scripted.

Arshad Warsi and Barun Sobti keep you glued to the screen.

3. Bhaukaal (6 Mar 2020)
Channel: MX Player
Genre: Crime Thriller
Season: 1
No. of Episodes: 10
Running Time: 22-30 minutes

Short Review: Crime ridden land of Muzaffarnagar, ruled by two rival gangs - Shaukeen gang in the east and the Dedha brothers in the west is a suicidal place for any police officer trying to establish any law and order around the aforementioned gangsters' nefarious activities.

Mohit Raina (Lord Shiva fame) brings about fifty percent of the required change, facing a lot of threats and failures, but slowly and steadily cleaning off one of the aforesaid gangs.

Other known and impressive artists are Abhimamyu Singh, Siddhanth Kapoor and Bidita Nag. Usage of rustic abusive language is to the optimum.

4. Mentalhood (11 Mar 2020)
Channel: ZEE5 & ALT Balaji
Genre: Drama
Season: 1
No. of Episodes: 10
Running Time: 18-23 minutes

Short Review: It depicts the roller coaster ride of five urban mothers and one single father, all of whose kids study in an upscale and swank Mumbai school. They all appear different but somewhere share the same trials, turbulations, happiness, confusion, dilemma and guilt conscience of parenting.

Karishma Kapoor, Sandhya Mridul, Shilpa Shukla, Shruti Seth, Tillotama Shome, and Dino Morea are a treat to watch. In fact, Karishma has kind of singularly shouldered the entire series.

5. Special Ops (17 Mar 2020)
Channel: Hotstar
Genre: Espionage Thriller
Season: 1
No. of Episodes: 8
Running Time: 44-55 minutes

Short Review: An engaging espionage thriller, constantly shuffling between flash back and present time, to show the years long tedious process involved in locating and nabbing a dangerous terrorist, responsible for masterminding the Indian Parliament attack in 2001, followed by 5 subsequent attacks all over India.

Watch it for the stellar performance by Kay Kay Menon.

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part II -
http://jaimaadurga.blogspot.com/2020/03/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-ii.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part III -
http://angrezipicture.blogspot.com/2020/04/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-iii.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part IV -
http://angrezipicture.blogspot.com/2020/04/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-iv.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part V -
http://jaimaadurga.blogspot.com/2020/05/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-vl.html?m=1

Binge Watch Suggestion List - Part VI -
http://jaimaadurga.blogspot.com/2020/05/binge-watch-suggestion-list-part-vi.html?m=1

Amazon Prime Video TV Series: Afsos (Feb 2020)

Genre: Black Comedy Thriller
Language: Hindi
No. of Episodes: 8

Writer: Dibya Chatterjee, Anirban Dasgupta, Sourav Ghosh
Director: Anubhuti Kashyap

Cast: Gulshan Devaiah, Anjali Patil, Heeba Shah, Robin Das, Aakash Dahiya, Jamie Alter, Shyam Bhimsaria, Sulagna Panigrahi, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, Danish Sait

Music: Neel Adhikari
Casting: Parag Mehta
Editing: Prerna Saigal

Introduction:

This series is about suicide attempts, assassinations, quest for 'amrit' and 'amar' aka the elixir of life and the immortal respextively.

Plot:

'Afsos' is a totally out of the box TV series which opens with the scenes wherein -

- the protagonist Nakul (Gulshan Devaiah) is hell bent on committing suicide and attempts the same repeatedly in vain!

- a foreign scientist Dr. Goldfish (Jamie Alter) is conducting a seminar on immortality and ways to achieve it.

- one fine morning, all the sadhus of a remote ashram in Uttarakhand are found shot dead, barring Fokatiya Baba (Robin Das), who has supposedly ran away to Mumbai with the 'amrit' potion, which was rumoured to have been present inside the ashram!

The ashram massacre happens the very next day of a media publishing about the 'amrit' present therein and Ayesha Mirani (Sulagna Panigrahi), the concerned lady reported is lambasted by her boss for such an irresponsible and superstitious publishing. She is asked to stop pursuing the fictionary 'amrit' trail and follow another story about an operational suicide service, run by Maria Gomes (Ratnabali Bhattacharjee), that professionally assists people in committing suicides, both by motivation, as well as, assassination!

This same squad has been recruited by Nakul to fulfil his desire of dying and the contract of his assassination has been given to Upadhyay (Heeba Shah), a no nonsense hitwoman who leaves no stone unturned to finish her job at hand and is immune to collateral damages involved.

However, Nakul's shrink Dr. Shloka's (Anjali Patil) expression of love towards himself motivates him to cancel the aforementioned contract. After some tussle, though Maria agrees to do the required cancellation, but Upadhyay is hell bent on killing Nakul and that too with an added vengeance because in continuation with his trait of failed suicide attempts, he keeps on dodging Upadhyay's bullets.

On the other hand, to investigate the mass massacre of Uttarakhand sadhus, the local inspector of that region, Bir Singh (Aakash Dahiya) arrives in Mumbai to nab Fokatiya Baba.

Alongside, Dr. Goldfish and his team of musclemen also arrive in Mumbai in pursuit of amrit.

As if all the aforesaid pursuits were not enough, both Fokatiya Baba and Dr. Goldfish are also in pursuit of a one and only immortal person on Earth, the 'amar' entity who holds the unique power to immortalize someone else other than himself!

How all the aforementioned personalities cross each other while pursuing their independent pursuits and how their personal stories get inter connected is for yours to watch.

Analysis:

It's a very well made series with good script, casting, direction, acting, background score and editing.

All the actors look the part and have performed well, but Gulshan Devaiah is a treat to watch. Using minimum dialogues and few solid expressions, he has amazingly portrayed the character of the suicide seeking lad, who has absolutely no will to live or fear to die.

Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, as the practical businesswoman who provides suicide assistance without batting an eyelid, but also loves her kid daughter and is against collateral damage is an interesting study.

In this series, people get killed every now and then, both intentionally and unintentionally, but fail to give any tug to your heart strings. May be, that's how the series' creators intended them to be.

Conclusion:

It's an engaging and taut thriller with no edge of the seat drama but an altogether different thought process.