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One more web series, glorifying terrorists and vilifying Hindutva groups as well as placing the blame on the system for "forcing" people to take up arms.
After several web series like Family Man, Ghoul etc which justified Islamic terrorism now is the time to white-wash Naxalites, which is exactly what this series aims to do.
The Naxalites are basically portrayed as "Gandhians with guns" and noble souls who are forced to fight for their rights against the cruel manipulative government, scheming corporates and biased police men.
On the other hand, Hindutva groups are shown as indulging in unbridled violence against poor villagers, killing and raping them with impunity, shooting them for sport and so on.
Sure they do show a few Naxalites who are evil too and a couple of cops who are sincere; but the overwhelming message is that 99.99% of Naxalites are good people who are forced to pick up the gun to fight against a system which has made their lives miserable.
This is nothing other than main-streaming of violence and an attempt to create sympathy for anarchists.
The series as such is nothing much going for it. The main characters are played by veteran TV actors, so they deliver average performances. Convoluted story line with everyone double and triple crossing each other in an attempt to stay on top.
Key characters conveniently take stupid risks when it is time for them to be bumped off. But the protagonist always stays alive no matter what and is invariably rescued at the nick of time, so that he can carry on the good fight.
Trained cops behave like amateurs when the story line dictates it. Naxalites sit around in the forest the whole day and clean their guns (which consists of detaching and reattaching their magazines endlessly).
Couple of over-dramatic moments, which reminded me of the stupid saas-bahu serials.
score 1/10
discerninguser 30 November 2020
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16-12-2020 21:23:07