Dus June Kii Raat Review: Disappointing light-hearted murder mystery despite interesting concept
Dus June Kii Raat Web Series Rating: 1.5 Stars
Watched Dus June Kii Raat Web Series on Jio Cinema Premium. So, let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this web series.
Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Priyanka Chahar Choudhary, Shaan Groverr, Satyen Chaturvedi and Sumit Arora
Release Date: 4th August 2024 on Jio Cinema Premium
Duration: 12 Episodes/ 20 Minutes
Story: Series is based on the book of same name by Santosh Pathak which revolves around Bhagyesh aka Panauti (Tusshar Kapoor) who lives with her mother, Aunt and cousin Battu (Shaan Groverr) in a small town of Raniganj.
He is constantly blamed for inviting bad luck into other’s lives since the closure of Menka cinema and death of his father that happened on 10th June when he was born. He believes the reopening of Menka is the only way to revive his fortunes despite the warning from her mother and aunt to not open the theatre again.
One day a girl named Puppy (Priyanka Chahar Choudhary) called him on phone when he was trying to suicide which changed his life completely. He was able to find the angel investor Sahib Singh (Satyen Chaturvedi) who helped him to open the theatre but has evil eye on Menka and wanted to acquire it.
On the night before opening the theatre Bhagyesh invited Puppy to visit his cinema as he wanted to purpose her to marry as she is the first girl in his life. But due to his bad luck she gets killed and he is trapped in a crime scene and needs to prove his innocence.
Inspector Devraj (Sumit Arora) has personal enmity with Bhagyesh. While there is one more girl Rumpa (Mia Magar) who belongs to Nepal but searching for half piece of map which she believes that hidden in Menka theatre. How Bhagyesh aka Panauti deal with all these problems is all about this series.
Positives
1. Performances
2. Story
3. Climax
Negatives
1. Length
2. Screenplay
3. Unnecessary sub-plots
4. Direction
Durgesh Tiwary’s View: When I watched the trailer of this web-series, planned to watch this series in free time as loved the trailer in parts.
A farcical tale of Panauti, a hapless man with notorious bad luck, and his quest to reopen his father’s theatre. Packed with hilarious misadventures and colorful characters, his journey with Cousin Battu for love and luck is hilarious.
Dus June Kii Raat is a light-hearted murder mystery revolving around an unlucky protagonist and a cursed abandoned theatre, doesn’t take itself too seriously and that’s why the silliness remains tolerable. The narration is chaotic and highly exaggerated, but you’re drawn to the madcap world and it’s not-so-innocent characters once you adapt to its rhythm. The show is largely a dark comedy, where the humor is born out of the various troubles that Bhagyesh aka Panauti lands in. Though there’s no concrete evidence to suggest his involvement in a couple of crimes, the cop is committed to putting him behind bars to settle past scores. The characters keep harking back to a secret around a doomed theatre, which was supposedly responsible for the death of Bhagyesh’s father.
The screenplay is ideal for a farce placing oddball characters in a series of outlandish situations and building an air of mystery around a murder within a theatre, but it needed someone to bring a method to the madness. The subplots are reasonably well-stitched though the outdated treatment of a worthy premise and the loud, screechy ambience takes a toll on your senses after a point. The show, in its desperation for a few laughs, needlessly complicates the life of Bhagyesh and struggles to strike a balance between plot progression and humor. The 5-hour runtime contributes to a viewer’s fatigue. Overall, series is neither funny nor unbearable, but there was room for a rescue act. Like most series, the creators intentionally don’t piece the puzzle together towards the end, leaving the ground open for a new season. My view on this series Not Recommended.
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