This is one more saga of Mumbai mafia, loosely fashioned of Dawood’s rise and fall in Mumbai underworld. There have been plenty earlier. There will be more in future. This one doesn’t say anything special. You are left with a bitter taste in mouth with the kind of language the characters use.The initial few moments, it seems, the director is doing a wonderful job of building up characters,situations and of course the story. The ambience is created. You tend to appreciate it all.
But then gradually, a sour taste starts taking over.What’s with the Hindi web series and abuses? I often wonder. But this web series has so many of them that you actually start looking for a meaningful dialogue in between. Unfortunately, there are very few of those good old dialogues.Based on ‘From Dongri to Dubai: Sis Decades of Mumbai Mafia’, this web series is the same old story of an honest cop turning rogue contrary to his ‘zameer’ and then his kids too join the bad-bad world which so hates from the depth of his heart.
In between this one-sentence story line are the tiny love affairs,lengthy fights and macabre violence. There’s only one strain which keeps you tied to the series- unsaid bond and helplessness between the father Ismail and the son, Dara.I think, it’s high time the OTT platforms realized that there’s enough of all this crime and thrill and gore on their platform. They should now focus on some nice creative every day stories. And it’s high time the web series makers realized that a script in Hindi should be written in Hindustani which we speak and not English or the various abuses which have almost become synonymous with some expressions.
This saddens me. Have we actually forgotten how to express ourselves in our language without being supported by either English or abuses?Well, this said, the web series has one remarkable redeeming feature- the actors. Kay Kay is already a well-established and reputed actor. Avinash Tiwary has actually arrived on the scene with this series. His intense, average looking persona just cracks the character of a mafia don who is formidable as well as loveable.
One more actor who should be lauded for his remarkable and intense acting is Jitin Gulati. I wish the director could give him some good dialogues instead of just staccato of abuses. Wherever he has a close up with a silence writ large on his face like a safety valve on a volley of emotions, Jitin simplyexcels.Saurabh Sachdeva is again a seasoned actor whose presence brings life to this series. Kritika Kamra and Nivedita Bhattacharya too are amazing.
Bambai Meri Jaan is one such web series which, after a watch you want to dismiss heaving a long sigh,but the actors keep appearing in your mind for a long time. The creators still need to learn the ropes well, and the script writers (dialogues), for God’s sake, should write something beyond abuses too!
