Criminal Justice
Directed by : Tigmanshu Dhulia/Vishal Furia (8 episodes each, 2019), Tigmanshu Dhulia (2 episodes, 2019)
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9095260/
Kaisa laga yeh case haarke?
Bahut badhiya, charamsukh aanand. I am looking forward to lose some more cases. Suna hai isse moksha milta hai..
Aditya Sharma (Vikrant Massey), a FirstCab driver, has a one-night stand with one of the passenger, Sanaya (Madhurima Roy). Later that night when he wakes up and tries to say goodbye to Sanaya while leaving, he realizes she's dead with blood on his hands. Aditya has no memory of the incident and he fears that he will not be able to prove that he is not guilty. Criminal Justice is inspired from HBO's 'The Night Of' show which itself was a remake of 2008 mini series. Initially the series keeps you hooked in because you are unsure who the killer is, and since the narration is linear, chances of Aditya being guilty is very much cut off. We get some very good court scenes kudos to Mandira Mathur (Mita Vasisht) who is a delight to watch in a no-nonsense strict lawyer and just wants to win,unfortunately she's part of 4 episodes only before her assistant takes up the case which I would had preferred rather going in hands of Madhav Mishra (Pankaj Tripathi). He steals the show (minus the stupid background theme) with his curiosity and gut feeling that he can't let a innocent do jail term. Madhav's scene with therapist is hilarious about how happy he feels to have lost a case, and also his chemistry with Nikhat Hussain (Anupriya Goenka) is one to watch. Jackie Shroff (played Mustafa) is also tailor-made for the gangster kind prisoner having power over everyone inmates and ofcourse using lot of 'bhidu'. Vikrant Massey wierdly doesn't make the mark like I expected, and main reason is he very much gets lost in the jail politics plot which is also why I felt the series diverts away too much. I personally won't say they shouldn't have shown that aspect, but they clearly went overboard with it, had they cut it to say 8 episode series with some crisp editing then it would had appealed the way it should. I do however enjoyed that scene where Mustafa stops Aditya in time from killing the rival cell-inmate Layak (Dibyendu Bhattacharya), telling that innocent should stay innocent. In the previous episodes leading to that scene, I had this feeling that by the time Aditya would be proven innocent for Sanaya's murder, he might already had become a murderer inside the jail, so that was a good twist. Some of other supporting actors however felt miscast and the emotional manipulation through background music is done way too much to my liking. Also, why would you not show the crime scene in the last episode when the real culprit is found. Criminal Justice works mainly for the court-room scenes, and performances of Pankaj Tripathi and Jackie Shroff but its atleast 2 episodes too long to sit through.
My Rating : 5.5/10
Hostages
Creators : Omri Givon, Yezira Ivrit, Rotem Shamir
Directed by : Sudhir Mishra (10 episodes, 2019)
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9094282/
Hona toh aapko narak mein chahiye, par filhaal aap..
Anand's villa daily-life comes to a standstill as four masked men take the family hostages with Dr Mira Anand (Tisca Chopra) told to kill CM next day who is supposed to do a surgery on him. She has to make a choice between her family and CM. Another inspired/remake series, with same title from Israel's show done in 2013. Starting two episodes sets right tone, we are told right at end of 1st episode that SP Prithvi Singh (Ronit Roy) is the leader of the masked men, but the motive behind this is revealed very slowly later on in the show. The way Dr Mira Anand keeps finding ways of getting out of Prithvi and its team radar to find evidences who these masked men are or try to let her children run off, made me think if she would had been much better team member of Prithvi and co. Atleast I would had liked a scene kept before they invade the Anand family or a flashback, as to on what basis they chose team and what planning they did because they sure looked like total rookies who kept giving chances for Anand family to get away. One of the guy among them especially had a bad temper and made it tougher for Prithvi all the time to have a look at him along with Anand family, which again begs question 'why did he hire him? Show a backstory maybe to justify'. The end you could predict from very 1st episode, but what is funny to see is how easily a CM's body gets replaced with a random body and no one notices or finds out. Then there's other sub-plots, Mira's son trying to please girl from school by hacking papers, her daughter is pregnant to a guy who broke-up with her and her husband has been hiding many things. None of those plots felt engaging enough. And the tussle between Mira and Prithvi also gets repetitive after a while. Both Tisca Chopra and Ronit Roy give in very good performances, yet not enough to save what is a very silly and a series going nowhere with all the loopholes and a non-satisfying ending.
My Rating : 4/10
Directed by : Tigmanshu Dhulia/Vishal Furia (8 episodes each, 2019), Tigmanshu Dhulia (2 episodes, 2019)
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9095260/
Kaisa laga yeh case haarke?
Bahut badhiya, charamsukh aanand. I am looking forward to lose some more cases. Suna hai isse moksha milta hai..
Aditya Sharma (Vikrant Massey), a FirstCab driver, has a one-night stand with one of the passenger, Sanaya (Madhurima Roy). Later that night when he wakes up and tries to say goodbye to Sanaya while leaving, he realizes she's dead with blood on his hands. Aditya has no memory of the incident and he fears that he will not be able to prove that he is not guilty. Criminal Justice is inspired from HBO's 'The Night Of' show which itself was a remake of 2008 mini series. Initially the series keeps you hooked in because you are unsure who the killer is, and since the narration is linear, chances of Aditya being guilty is very much cut off. We get some very good court scenes kudos to Mandira Mathur (Mita Vasisht) who is a delight to watch in a no-nonsense strict lawyer and just wants to win,unfortunately she's part of 4 episodes only before her assistant takes up the case which I would had preferred rather going in hands of Madhav Mishra (Pankaj Tripathi). He steals the show (minus the stupid background theme) with his curiosity and gut feeling that he can't let a innocent do jail term. Madhav's scene with therapist is hilarious about how happy he feels to have lost a case, and also his chemistry with Nikhat Hussain (Anupriya Goenka) is one to watch. Jackie Shroff (played Mustafa) is also tailor-made for the gangster kind prisoner having power over everyone inmates and ofcourse using lot of 'bhidu'. Vikrant Massey wierdly doesn't make the mark like I expected, and main reason is he very much gets lost in the jail politics plot which is also why I felt the series diverts away too much. I personally won't say they shouldn't have shown that aspect, but they clearly went overboard with it, had they cut it to say 8 episode series with some crisp editing then it would had appealed the way it should. I do however enjoyed that scene where Mustafa stops Aditya in time from killing the rival cell-inmate Layak (Dibyendu Bhattacharya), telling that innocent should stay innocent. In the previous episodes leading to that scene, I had this feeling that by the time Aditya would be proven innocent for Sanaya's murder, he might already had become a murderer inside the jail, so that was a good twist. Some of other supporting actors however felt miscast and the emotional manipulation through background music is done way too much to my liking. Also, why would you not show the crime scene in the last episode when the real culprit is found. Criminal Justice works mainly for the court-room scenes, and performances of Pankaj Tripathi and Jackie Shroff but its atleast 2 episodes too long to sit through.
My Rating : 5.5/10
Hostages
Creators : Omri Givon, Yezira Ivrit, Rotem Shamir
Directed by : Sudhir Mishra (10 episodes, 2019)
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9094282/
Hona toh aapko narak mein chahiye, par filhaal aap..
Anand's villa daily-life comes to a standstill as four masked men take the family hostages with Dr Mira Anand (Tisca Chopra) told to kill CM next day who is supposed to do a surgery on him. She has to make a choice between her family and CM. Another inspired/remake series, with same title from Israel's show done in 2013. Starting two episodes sets right tone, we are told right at end of 1st episode that SP Prithvi Singh (Ronit Roy) is the leader of the masked men, but the motive behind this is revealed very slowly later on in the show. The way Dr Mira Anand keeps finding ways of getting out of Prithvi and its team radar to find evidences who these masked men are or try to let her children run off, made me think if she would had been much better team member of Prithvi and co. Atleast I would had liked a scene kept before they invade the Anand family or a flashback, as to on what basis they chose team and what planning they did because they sure looked like total rookies who kept giving chances for Anand family to get away. One of the guy among them especially had a bad temper and made it tougher for Prithvi all the time to have a look at him along with Anand family, which again begs question 'why did he hire him? Show a backstory maybe to justify'. The end you could predict from very 1st episode, but what is funny to see is how easily a CM's body gets replaced with a random body and no one notices or finds out. Then there's other sub-plots, Mira's son trying to please girl from school by hacking papers, her daughter is pregnant to a guy who broke-up with her and her husband has been hiding many things. None of those plots felt engaging enough. And the tussle between Mira and Prithvi also gets repetitive after a while. Both Tisca Chopra and Ronit Roy give in very good performances, yet not enough to save what is a very silly and a series going nowhere with all the loopholes and a non-satisfying ending.
My Rating : 4/10
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