Prajnan Ray

Superb movie... Couldn't have been handled better.

Superb! Watched all episodes at one go... Must watch.

This is the most hilarious thing I have ever watched!!! Reminded me of CID, which I used to watch when I was a kid. Most of the narration was funny but here are a few roflmao points… Firstly, how did he bury the coffin with himself inside it? Surely it wasn’t the coffin-maker or he would have blurted it out when he suddenly recovered from his conking out. And why bury it, in the first place? And why conceal himself inside? Leaving it in the coffin-maker’s workshop and waiting in ambush nearby would result in the exact same much earlier and also save him the agony of waiting in a coffin wondering when and, more importantly, if ever the team would discover him. Or a really smart villain would use a tranquilizer gun on the target when he was alone and the job would have been a piece of cake and cost him one-hundredth the price, and one-thousandth the agony. Also, an even easier way would be to capture the wife or the daughter or both and extort the work from the husband and also worm out information from the department. Why did Nikhil give him such elaborate and (more strangely) successful plans? If he was clever enough to pass disguised information through murders, why not make a plan where the villain would be caught easily like making him use a chemical which was rare and could be traced back from the vendor? The chap entered into the room thrice, not even once did he hit the guy and try to run (after all he is a CBI, FBI cop.) The whole escaping process of getting fingerprints from a glass and what not was unnecessarily and blatantly complicated. Connecting a telephone line to a TV and scanning for God knows what! Are you kidding me? Wonder why the Shubh team kept on helping the cops in the first 7 out of 8 episodes? What queer logic ratifies that? Why did he want Nikhil to plan and execute it himself? Even if he wanted to vindicate his bizarre Asur theory, it should have been the other way round, the main villain, Shubh planning (since he was a super-brain genius) and Nikhil executing it. Also, look at the murders – getting a same size iron tooth and replacing it with the titanium tooth in a dental hospital leave their trails. And the dentist completely unaware of it? Wow! The businessman guy was so reckless that he wouldn’t postpone his engagement even after a warning from the CBI. He kept drinking as if to make a mockery of the cops? Within a few seconds, he was killed and his finger chopped off without his making any noise or the finger leaving any blood trail? Must be magic! In both cases, a silent gun would be more effective and hassle-free. The villain was from a modest background and escaped from prison after a fire. How did he manage to hoard enough money to lay such an elaborate computer setup and gas chambers? Internet connection kaunsa liya mereko bhi batade!!! If you think deeply, the cops could have backtracked from the ISP too. The cheapest resource of all are the cops who got killed at the villain’s den. No one bothered. Why did the journalist lady not kill the man in the chamber but shoot him outside to land straight in jail? Funny thought! And the protagonist DJ (reminded me of ACP Pradyuman of CID) – Who discloses confidential info to prison preachers and wives of employees? Who gobbles up poisonous pills to glean information out of a hardened criminal? In spite of knowing that information is siphoning off to the villain he doesn’t lay a shadow of doubt on his team members. There are many other such ridiculous points. But, can’t blame the directors because they are getting away by selling their under-researched and illogical work like hot cake.

There was lot of room for engaging the audience but the series missed all of them. It started too many threads but could not tie the loose ends at the conclusion. It's worst trait, however was that in its efforts to showcase the protagonist as a 'regular' Mumbaikar, the series crossed the threshold a li'l in portraying a celebrated defence man as highly impulsive, foolhardy and sometimes even stupid, landing him in trouble often; careless and even less efficient than terrorists. Also, wonder why a very respectable job is shown as derogatory, shameful and frowned on and criticized by even the family? What's the point they are trying to convey?