PaatalLok

One more good release on the OTT platform. Jaideep Ahlawat and a supporting cast rocked it. It proved again you don’t need big stars to make the show hit, you only need good actors with a good story.

One good thing about it, at the end no major open loop which keeps us thinking and waiting for next season like FamilyMan, SacredGames, etc. 

(When I heard about the PaatalLok, I thought it is some mythical drama but the sky got cleared immediately after watching the trailer). The story is a crime-suspense-revenge political drama with the “tadaka” of Hindu-Muslim-Dalit angle, Politics, Media, Police investigation, Family drama, High class-middle class lifestyle fight with salt to taste of terrorist angle. But with all this also you will not feel to stop watching before completing it in one go. Hathiram, Tyagi is best with Ansari, Sanjay Mehra, Sara, Ashutosh, Tope Singh, Hathiram’s wife, and sala, others have done justice with their roles. A positive end with Hathiram saving his self-respect, job, family and revealing the secrecy for us with keeping the system as it is.

Will not reveal suspense here but big planning and conspiracy for one murder are a bit difficult to digest. The bad thing about it, dialogues are full MC, BC, but this is now acceptable for the Indian web series. “Jo Bikata hai wahi dikhata hai” and currently dialogues with MC, BC words (Mirzapur, PataalLok), and intimacy (Four More Shots 1/2, Made in Heaven) are selling in Indian OTT. One more point which (always) surprises is why in the web series, it is a trend to show police officials have relationship issues with wives!

I will recommend it, for the top class acting with  the crime investigation suspense story (with some ignorance, but if you are a fan of the Dabang series, stay away from it because either you will not match with it or it will not fulfill your expectation)