Search The Naina Homicide Case assessment
Forged: Konkona Sen Sharma, Surya Sharma, Shiv Pandit, Shraddha Das, Iravati Harshe, Sagar Deshmukh
Director: Rohan Sippy
Score: ★★★
Rohan Sippy’s Search: The Naina Homicide Case manages to attain one massive win with its viewers. It forces you to place your cellphone down. In an period the place largely all streaming content material is consumed in a passive method whilst you eat, cook dinner (and even work), this present calls for your consideration. Partly, it’s due to the gripping narrative that Rohan Sippy creates, and partly due to the magic that Konkona Sen Sharma brings on display. But, the mix of the 2 isn’t sufficient to make this present stand out from the numerous others on this style on Indian streaming.
ACP Sanyukta Das (Konkona Sen Sharma) is on her method out of the crime cell for a extra ‘relaxed’ posting in cybercrime. This can permit her to focus extra on her crumbling household and long-distance husband. However at the same time as her substitute, a cocky ACP Jai Kanwal (Surya Sharma) arrives to alleviate her, the grotesque homicide of a youngster holds her again. Now Sanyukta has to race towards the clock to unwind this homicide thriller, which has ties to a neighborhood politician (Shiv Pandit), even because the lady’s mother and father attempt to launch their very own investigation.
Search is a present that doesn’t waste time, neither in exposition nor in stretching the plot. It dives proper into the homicide and the investigation, whereas additionally giving some scope to arrange the characters’ backstories. It peels off layer after layer from the thriller like every good whodunnit ought to. The beginning is sweet.
Konkona Sen Sharma, in a uncommon assertive function, does properly. Because the cop who’s struggling to stability work and household, she epitomises the Gen X mother and father’ wrestle with elevating youngsters in a world the place expertise has surpassed them. She does properly to deliver the fears of the mum or dad and the priority of the police officer collectively. Surya Sharma is the opposite star, making Jai as annoying as he can, however by no means making him a caricature. He’s a cop with a coronary heart, and one which has watched too many motion pictures.
Iravati Harshe, because the lifeless lady’s mom, is splendid. She brings the much-needed emotional join and vulnerability to the story. The present by no means depicts the precise crime or exhibits it in any graphic element. Therefore, to know the loss, the mother and father’ grief wanted to return out. Rohan Sippy manages that properly with the assistance of Iravati and Sagar Deshmukh. Shiv Pandit additionally fares properly in a barely clichéd however well-written function. Whereas Shraddha Das continues to indicate she will carry out when a script permits her to be extra than simply glamorous.
But, regardless of all its virtues, Search falters, because it begins to pander to the tropes that Indian streaming exhibits have made their very own through the years. The narrative slows down as we close to the tip, and cliffhangers are thrown in our face. And because the present ends (does it, actually?), one is left questioning: No matter occurred to the nice outdated self-contained story the place nothing was left to the creativeness and no side was ‘to be continued’? The shortage of conclusion is the largest pitfall of Search, which nullifies the nice work it does within the six episodes earlier than it.