Mumbai Diaries 26/11 Review: Series could have taut thriller of a life-altering real event instead of becoming a never-ending saga of insipid characters
Mumbai Diaries 26/11 Web Series Rating: 3 Stars
Just watched Mumbai Diaries 26/11 web series on Amazon Prime Video. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this web series.
Cast: Konkona Sen Sharma, Mohit Raina, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Natasha Bharadwaj, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Satyajeet Dubey, Prakash Belawadi and Tina Desai
Director: Nikkhil Advani and Nikhil Gonsalves
Release Date: 9th October 2021 (On Amazon Prime Video)
Duration: 8 Episodes/ 35 Minutes
Story: Series recreates a fictional version of the most diabolical terror strike on the city on 26th November 2008. The show drives its story from the perspective of a government hospital that eventually becomes the battleground between the cops, doctors and the terrorists.
Story revolves around Dr Kaushik Oberoi (Mohit Raina) who is the head of the trauma surgery department and is seasoned at bypassing the system to take chances with patients who land up on one of his beds with little hope to make it. An absentee husband he is on the verge of losing his wife whom he cherishes, but doesn’t have the emotional intelligence to salvage his marriage. Ananya (Tina Desai) his wife is part of the administrative service staff at the Palace Hotel.
Dr Mani Subramaniam (Prakash Belawadi) and the law enforcement agents always questions Kaushik way of working but he is about to leave Bombay general Hospital so they are adjusting with his work. Dr Chitra Das (Konkona Sen Sharma) is the hospital’s social services director and she carries the baggage of traumatic domestic abuse and is a strange and unconvincing Samaritan as she has managed to keep an ageing lady abandoned by her children in one of the hospital’s beds for three years.
Three interns happen to join Dr Oberoi’s team that day Diya Parekh (Natasha Bharadwaj) who is granddaughter of the founder of the hospital and daughter of a legendary doctor who incidentally is the star of a felicitation ceremony at the Palace Hotel the same evening, Sujata Ajawale (Mrunmayee Deshpande) is a small-town doctor fresh out of medical college who resents the nepotism she already smells when she sees how Diya is treated at the hospital on their first day and Ahaan Mirza (Satyajeet Dubey) whose temper is a vehicle for staid and lazy political correctness to portray Muslim-ness.
when pandemonium sets in with several terrorists waging a war against India’s financial capital, the hospital, swamped by the injured and the dying, have to look the other way when Oberoi works in ways that may be highly questionable. Media fiend Mansi (Shreya Dhanwanthary) who is on the hunt for a killer story amidst the chaos and killings of the terror attack of 26/11. How all doctors, police and journalists fight against all the odds for 60 hours is all about the story of this series.
Positives
1. Performances
2. Climax
3. Story
4. Screenplay
5. Direction
Negatives
1. 1st Half
2. Length
3. Music
4. Some unnecessary plot
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I had watched the trailer of this series planned to watch this series on first day of it’s release because it is based on 26/11 incident.
This fictionalised series depicting the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008, will definitely generate a polarised opinion. The series made up of eight episodes gives you an account of how the terrorists, on a killing spree, shooting random people at sight, created mayhem in the city. It focuses on events that took place at Leopold Cafe, Bombay General Hospital and Palace Hotel. These venues are conveniently and by default connected by the act of the terrorists and by characters helming rescue operations in the respective places.
The screenplay is swift, brisk, quick and has plenty of speed, being able to for the most part create an atmosphere of tension, stress and anxiety which may not be for the faint hearted. I could feel my heart racing. The dialogues too are real and well written, that one watching this won’t notice them. All in all, it’s a hard-hitting show alright, made with a lot of blood and sweat too, which shows onscreen, but in a bid to pack in too much action and drama, Mumbai Diaries ends up becoming a never-ending saga of insipid characters rather than a taut thriller of a life-altering real event. My view on this web-series Highly Recommended even there are few flaws in this series.
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