Mai Review: Sakshi Tanwar performance, multiple twist and turns makes this crime thriller one time watch
Mai Web Series Rating: 3 Stars
Just watched Mai web series on Netflix. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this web series.
Cast: Sakshi Tanwar, Vivek Mushran, Wamiqa Gabbi, Raima Sen, Prashant Narayanan, Ankur Ratan, Anant Vidhaat, Vaibhav Raj Gupta and Seema Pahwa
Director: Atul Mongia and Anshai Lal
Release Date:15th April 2022 (Netflix)
Duration: 6 Episodes/ 40 Minutes
Story: Set in Lucknow, It centers on an aggrieved mother deep diving into a dark world of deceit and crime in an attempt to seek closure. Sheel (Sakshi Tanwar) is a middle-class woman looks after her home and pharmacy shop and is as mindful of her husband Yash (Vivek Mushran) frail health as the elderly she looks after in a nearby geriatric home.
Taking care of things comes naturally to her, be it her own household or her brother-in-law’s (Ikhlaque Khan) whose teenage son’s Archit (Mikhail Gandhi) interests she’s keenly safeguarding. But when her mute daughter Supriya (Wamiqa Gabbi) who is a pathology technician by profession and stand-up comic by hobby dead in Truck accident in front of her.
At first glance, it looks to be an accident, but Sheel quickly realizes that something isn’t quite right, and Supriya’s death might have been an intentional murder. Following that, she sets off on a trip to discover the truth. Parallely, Farooque Siddiqui (Ankur Ratan) who is a Special Police Force Officer (SPF) is on the verge of exposing the people behind a medical scam and money laundering case which is led by Jawahar (Prashant Narayanan). and
Jawahar was helped by his right-hand woman Neelam (Raima Sen), who manages the business alongside Raghu (Saurabh Dubey), Keshav (Omkar Jaiprakash), Prashant (Anant Vidhaat) and Shankar (Vaibhav Raj Gupta). As she seeks the reason behind the tragedy, she commits an unintentional act that culminates the death of Jawahar. As the engaging story unfolds, Sheel has to make sense of the first death and conceal the circumstances of the second.
One crisis is triggered by Sheel’s determination to figure out why her daughter had to die, another is caused by the fact that she is up against a gang of medical scamsters who will stop at nothing to weed out all impediments in their path. Will Sheel able to find the murderer of her daughter and get her justice.
Positives
1. Excellent Performances
2. Story
3. Direction
4. Cinematography
Negatives
1. Length
2. Climax
3. Screenplay
4. Unnecessary subplots
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I have watched the trailer of this series planned to watch in free time as its has good star cast with gripping storyline.
Sheel Chaudhary is a middle-class woman, witnesses her daughter, Supriya is being hit by a truck. Soon after the accident, she realises that it isn’t simply a hit-and-run case, but rather something sinister is at play, which feeds her determination to discover the truth.
Mai echoes the same crime-and-revenge genre as the 2017 Bollywood thrillers Mom starring late Sridevi and Raveena Tandon’s comeback flick Maatr. They are comparable in many aspects, particularly the fundamental idea which revolves around a humble and ordinary mother seeking vengeance for her daughter. The first few episodes seem to be heading in the right way, complete with an incredible emotional outburst from Sheel, but the story soon begins to waver. The script is well-written in terms of connecting all of the elements, although it does seem unduly stretched at points to keep the audience’s attention throughout the episodes. While Mai is clever, it also ended up being convenient a lot of times. Sheel is somehow always at the right place at the right time. The fact that the aim can escape is acknowledged just once, and in a set up so brutal and cunning, it all looks too make-believe.
The world around Sheel and her family is more haunting than the gory gangsters and their guns and bombs. Something that binds them was missing, and they looked disjointed. I could not imagine them as one world. It’s difficult to keep track of so many characters in a show that’s essentially a whodunit but deals with a variety of twisted motives. But, all things considered, it is a bleak and relentless crime-thriller that proves to be a compelling one even when it isn’t always easy to watch. The drama slows down in between, and yet, there is constant action that keeps the audience on the edge. My View on this web-series Recommended
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