Arindam Podder

Avoid. Simply Avoid. Avg 45 mins x 4 episodes = 3 hours of headache! Vineet Singh tries his best but there is no decent script.....mixing Zombie, with 1857 mutiny with Pirates of the Caribbean! Had high hope Red Chillies would show some decent Desi VFX or CGI , for their own production. Turned out the production setup, set design and makeup all are from 1990s' Ramsay Brothers Era. The guy who directed it , Patrick Graham had directed comparatively much better GHOUL....Here probably big corporate production house of SRK started too much nose poking and it turned out a disaster!

The show picks up with bit sexy raunchy drama style, looks slow...but 1 episode in to the game picks up speed. It runs good for nearly 60% of its middle episode, before losing out on tempo bringing out few new open sub-plot threads, open ones....and ties them into a knot very quickly by the end.But, watch it for Pankaj Tripathi....he blows his mind with every single acts, mannerism, and dialogue : he is Madhav Mishra, Gold Medalist ...amazing way supported by Anupriya Goenka. Jackie Shroff's role is tailor made for him as Mustafa Bhai, a Big Boss in Jail...Rucha Inamdar shines fantastic way and talks well with her eyes, Mita Vashisht has done similar roles - so easy for her too. The background score and bit of action choreography needed some touch up!