Candy Review: Engaging and thrilling murder mystery drama with excellent climax
Candy Web Series Rating: 4 Stars
Just watched Candy web series on Voot Select. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this web series.
Cast: Ronit Roy, Richa Chadha, Manurishi Chadha, Gopal Dutt, Riddhi Kumar, Nakul Roshan Sahdev and Mikhael Kantroo
Director: Ashish R Shukla
Release Date: 8th October 2021 (On Voot Select)
Duration: 8 Episodes/ 35 Minutes
Story: The series starts with in a village named Rudrakund located in the scenic hills of Uttarakhand where a murder Mehul Awasthi (Mihir Ahuja) who a student of an elite boarding school and his body was found hoisted on a tree in a forest after his attempt at amateur sleuthing to find the source of drugs a.k.a. ‘Candy’ supplied to his classmates.
Mehul’s death along with the disappearance of his classmate Kalki Rawat (Riddhi Kumar) opens a Pandora’s box in the otherwise laidback town. Jayant Parekh (Ronit Bose Roy) their teacher and mentor who had incidentally lost his daughter studying at the same school a few years ago, stirs up the proverbial hornet’s nest to unravel the mystery. He is also the narrator of the story and is actually in a near-death situation as he walks us through the story.
The locals immediately think he has been killed by ‘Massaand’, a monster that lurks in the woods, believed to be killing people who come in its way. At the center of all this chaos is officer Ratna Sankhwar (Richa Chadha) who is investigating the case. Bhaiyaji Ranaut (Manu Rishi Chadha) is a local politician and businessman can sacrifices people and animals like the heartless do and his son Vayu Ranaut (Nakul Roshan Sahdev) owns Lick Me Candy and makes candy laced with drugs and he is circulating the drugs in the city. Who is killer of Mehul and will Jayant and Ratn will able to find the killer is all about this series.
Positives
1. Performances
2. Climax
3. Story
4. Screenplay
5. Cinematography
Negatives
1. Some unanswered query
2. Length
3. Music
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I had watched the trailer of this series planned to watch this series because trailer looks good but series is excellent and one of the best thriller of this year.
It is an engaging thriller from start to finish with twists you cannot predict. There is a very cool Gone Girl style shift in narration, where we find out that everything that we have known so far has been a lie. However, since they have a solid climax in place, there was no need for so many twists in the first place. The show is layered, so we see everything from corruption to drug abuse and sexual assault. But by the penultimate episode, we have seen so many twists that it becomes exhausting to keep track of all of them. We could have cut three villains from the storyline and it would have made the same if not stronger impact. My view on this web-series Highly Recommended
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