Karm Yuddh Review: An interesting revenge drama could have been great did it not have too many unnecessary deviations
Karm Yuddh Web Series Review: 2.5 Stars
Just watched Karm Yuddh Web Series on Disney Plus Hotstar. Let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this web series.
Cast: Pauli Dam, Ashutosh Rana, Satish Kaushik, Rajesh Khatter, Madhurima Roy, Pranay Pachauri, Anjana Sukhani, Tara Alisha Berry, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Ankit Bisht, Akash Dhar, Malkhan Singh, Nitin Mirani, Soundarya Sharma, Shruti Chauhan and Satyajit Sharma
Director: Ravi Adhikari
Release Date: 30th September 2022 (Disney Plus Hotstar)
Duration: 8 Episodes/ 35 Minutes
Story: Set in Kolkata, series is centered on the high-profile Roy family and the power tussles within. It starts with a fire accident that destroys the industrial grounds of Roy Industries leading to events that uncover brutal secrets about the members of the family and their dealings amidst power-grab circumstances.
The first episode serves as an introduction to the central characters after a gang of men kill another group of men sitting at a factory premise and then light them on fire, which later brings the head honcho Bhisham Roy (Satish Kaushik) under scrutiny. Case is assigned to CBI and officer Raghuveer (Nitin Mirani) gets a lead during his investigation but before he could anything kidnapped by goons. Mouni (Anjana Sukhani) who works under Raghuveer now need to find her boss and solve this case.
On the other hand, Bhisham paralyzed younger brother Vardhan Roy’s (Rajesh Khattar) wife Indrani Roy (Paoli Dam) dreams of being the numero uno at the company. Her biggest obstacle is not just her brother-in-law but also her stalker of a son Abhimanyu Roy (Ankit Bisht) who doesn’t make it easy for her. Each of them wants to snatch sole power, no matter the cost.
Samay Shastri (Pranay Pachauri) who comes into the Roys’s life and become best friend of Abhimanyu. But he has to take revenge on his and his father Guru Shasti’s (Asutosh Rana) behalf for the murder of his brother. You need to watch this series to know the mastermind.
Positives
1. Excellent Performances
2. Cinematography
3. Direction
4. Screenplay
Negatives
1. Length
2. Climax
3. Unnecessary Sub-plot
4. Confusing Story
5. Music
Durgesh Tiwary’s View: When I watched the trailer of this series planned to watch in my free time instead of premiere day because trailer looks engaging but does not excite me too much.
Karm Yuddh is the story of another powerful family, this time based in Kolkata, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. After a fire breaks out in a factory, the industrialist Roy family comes under scrutiny as a power struggle ensues. There’s discord within the family and when you have a family like this, who needs enemies?
Series has an interesting and complex premise at its core. However, the plot is spread too thin owing to the multitude of characters that flit in and out of the story. Not just the inflated cast, the sheer number of subplots also numb the mind of the viewer as they try to grapple with who’s who, who’s doing what, to whom and why. From Naxals to romance, nothing is spared, and no research has been done beyond the superficial hat-tip to a bloody period of time beyond the very basics. This, together with unnecessarily slow and painful scenes of torture and gore is disturbing and annoying at the same time, and all it does is to prod the audience into skipping forward to the actual dynasty politics. With so much squeezed into eight 40-minute episodes, it’s obvious that the most resilient viewer will be left baffled and bewildered with the onslaught of plots and subplots. The saving grace of it all is the casting and it is on-point and just perfect. Every actor does justice to their respective characters, putting in their heart and soul into their performances.
As everyone tries to use everyone as a pawn in their game, you feel entangled in this mess in several different ways, some good and some bad. While the overall storyline is quite interesting, and you’d find it difficult to understand where exactly all of this is going. At the same time, thanks to the sheer number of plots, the story gets a bit too complicated for no reason. Some characters feel unnecessary like their storylines were forcefully added for the shock factor or to pad the runtime. They don’t add anything, and neither do they add thrill to the overall watching experience. It’s very difficult when a show doesn’t really move you in any way, so you’re just left sitting there wondering what is even going on. The show embodies the beauty of the city in the most-surface level way possible. You don’t feel like you see the culture coming through in any of the scenes that would make you believe in the reality of the story.
The show has its drag moments, but the performances make up for it, and the events that follow episode after episode are gruesome, unexpected especially now that the show is left on a cliffhanger for season two to follow. This could have been a great story did it not have too many unnecessary deviations. Overall, it is an interesting tale of revenge that has its moments. But it stretches itself out so thin that it’s impossible to sit through glued to the screen. My view on this series Time Pass and you need to press forward button few times to keep it short for you.
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