Tandav Web Series Review: A slow and predictable political drama
Tandav Web Series Review: 2 star
Just watched Tandav 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: Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Sunil Grover, Kumud Mishra, Kritika Kamra, Sarah Jane Dias, Dino Morea, Gauhar Khan, Sandhya Mridul, Anup Soni, Paresh Pahuja, Shonali Nagrani, Hiten Tejwani, Amyra Dastur, Neha Hinge and Sukhmani Sadana
Director: Ali Abbas Zafar
Release Date: 15th Jan 2021 (On Amazon Prime Video)
Duration: 9 Episodes/ 35 Minutes
Story: The series begins with the current Prime Minister Devki Nandan (Tigmanshu Dhulia) poised to win the elections for the third time. His son Samar Pratap (Saif Ali Khan) with her wife Ayesha (Sarah Jane Dias) greets crowds from the balcony of their palatial home.
Devki Nandan tells his friend and colleague of several decades, Gopal Das Munshi (Kumud Kumar Mishra) that he sees a dictator in his son who will be the death of democracy. Samar has a strained relationship with father because he has close bond with Anuradha Kishore (Dimple Kapadia).
Samar hunger for power and ruthlessness so he killed his father Devki by putting poison in his drink but he forced to surrender his position to Anuradha Kishore because somehow she knows that Samar is behind his father murder. Parallel to Samar’s schemes for vengeance is the story of hopeful and sincere Shiva Shekhar (Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub), Sana Mir (Kritika Kamra) and their friends who are students at the VNU.
Shiva claims he doesn’t want to be a politician, positioning himself as an activist who fights for farmers’ rights and demands Azadi from social evils. Unknown to him, Samar is scheming to lure him on to the grown-ups table and use him as his ‘Chandragupta’ to gain control over the influential student population. Helping him a tad too obviously is his henchman Gurpal(Sunil Grover) who follows orders no matter what those might be. Will Samar Pratap manage to reclaim the coveted seat of power?
Positives
1. Saif Ali Khan and ensemble cast brilliant performances
2. Cinematography
3. Story
4. Background Score
Negatives
1. Mediocre Direction
2. Climax
3. Screenplay
4. Dialogues
5. Boring and slow in few episodes
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I had watched the trailer it looks very fascinating and with such star cast and director with political drama it was always in my watch list.
The show kicks off quite earnestly, weaving in issues like farmers protesting about their lands being usurped, Muslim youth being illegally detained or killed, a growing restlessness amongst students whose idealism is still untainted, and the blurring of lines between politics and activism.
Tandav is a show that probably sounded great on paper. It has darkness, conspiracy, greed, ambition, treachery and pathos. Sadly, the makers are unable to translate these emotions onscreen because their characters. Overall series a riveting political drama which has thrills, intrigue, twists, turns, shockers and much much more so it can be easily watched . My view on this web series (Recommended)
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