Gyaarah Gyaarah Web Review: Go for gyaarah

Gyaarah GyaarahOn ZEE5Dir Umesh BistCast Raghav Juyal Kritika KamraRating 35If someone whorsquos never visited India let alone smalltown India got gifted an exhaustive playlist of shows and movies set in our locationsmdashthey should be permitted to believe this is a seriously cold countryLiterally all series movies particularly to do with Tier II towns are set in the winters To the extent that film industry folks mustrsquove noticed itrsquos hard to find cast crew in Bombay October onwardsTheyrsquore all in jackets boots hoodies and cravats shooting in the North the likes of Dehradun Mussoorie As with the first season of Gyaarah GyaarahOn which the wintry setup appears all the more apt since this police procedural is set in the lsquocold casesrsquo department of the local cop forceMeaning those entrusted to crack unsolved mysteries decades hence Thatrsquos a supreme luxury on tax payersrsquo money yoursquod think But itrsquos borne out of pressure from public pressMore so and this is how the series opensmdashfirst the court orders a 15year statute of limitations for criminal cases As in It sets 15 years for the length of time a criminal case can be brought for trial otherwise consider it donefinished you canrsquot revisit themThis is how a thrillerlike clock starts ticking over the mystery of a murdered lirsquol girl that remains unresolved in 2016 ever since 2001 The time that the cops have left to solve this case is hence in hours minutes secondsWhich makes me wonder if they did find the murderer only a few minutes later than the statute of limitation not telling you if they didmdashwould the courts miss the larger picture entirely and be so stuck up over a minor technicality Like wrestler Vinesh Phogat being 100 gm overweight Well lsquorules are rulesrsquo I guessAll said thatrsquos a great start for the show Itrsquos produced by Karan Johar and Oscar winner Guneet Monga Kapoormdashfollowup to Kill 2024 their last actioner together Monga used to be producer for Anurag Kashyap Films beforeKashyaprsquos last release was Do Baaraa 212 official remake of the Spanish film Mirage Which sounds a lot like Gyaarah Gyaarah 1111 credited adaptation of the Korean series SignalAnd thatrsquos not the only aspect common between both They equally deal with someone in the past talking to somebody in the present through distortions in an electronic deviceIn this case a walkietalkie through which two cops are in touch over multiple timelines One Raghav Juyal is in the presentBy which they mean 2016 which is also eight years from when we are viewing this show That the events of 2016 were almost a decade ago from 2024 somehow freaks me out to knowmdashin case yoursquore reading this in the futureThe past cop Dhairya Karwa momentarily picks up his walkietalkie in 1990 1998 and 2001 Yet Gyaarah Gyaarah is more a crime procedural than scifi or supernatural thrillerConsider how easily two supposedly rational gentlemen take to talking to each other through time As if nothing unnatural is going onThey never tell anyone about it They are totally immersed in investigating the criminal cases before them instead That seems more importantAs is Dehradun the town traversing between various timelines crimes The director Umesh Bist Pagglait 2021 brings a sort of an immersive feel to the Uttarakhand capital I did google if there is Sonali Talkies in Drsquodun playing Dil in 1990Nope there isnrsquot Also I know itrsquos expensivemdashbut picking up popular music from each of the years captured for a soundtrack could totally enliven the scenes here As it is popular nostalgia resides in the rsquo90s But this is really about the murders Three separate casesmdashinstead of following one over eight long episodes Which is a fine formula the Koreans writer Kim Eunhee have cracked for whatrsquos both a miniseries and an episodic show primarily inspired by American scifi thriller Frequency 2000Signal 2016 is currently on Netflix Irsquom not surprised the algorithm never guided me to it Canrsquot recall the last Kdrama I watched since Squid Game 2021 if that even countsWould I have been better off watching the original instead of its Hindi adaptationmdashperhaps even switching to a Hindidub if subtitles not my thingWell wouldrsquove lost out on some terrific performances starting with Juyal from Kill for a junior more so Kritika Kamra as the midlevel cop or the rabidly profane Harsh Chhaya as the police chief typeAnd the gentleman whorsquos Chhayarsquos immediate subordinate in the IPS whose name I canrsquot seem to find on the Internet You sirmdashand I will find youmdashyou were goodSignalrsquos got 16 episodes Gyaarah Gyaarah has eight That means we are only half way through Would I be interested in clicking on the original to see what happens nextWill just wait it out for the Hindi sequel And hope the subsequent cases are more interesting without the easy overexplanationsmdashwherein we donrsquot even know how they arrived at the backstoriesBesides the aforementioned case of the murdered kid the other two crime files relate to a serial killer and a crack in the mafia By the time you get to the end it seems the showrsquos lost all the staminasteam That said 23 for Gyaarah Gyaarah is not bad at all

Gyaarah Gyaarah Web Review: Go for gyaarah

Gyaarah Gyaarah
On: ZEE5
Dir: Umesh Bist
Cast: Raghav Juyal, Kritika Kamra
Rating: 3/5

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Gyaarah Gyaarah Web Review: Go for gyaarah

Gyaarah GyaarahOn: ZEE5Dir: Umesh BistCast: Raghav Juyal, Kritika Kamra Rating: 3/5

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Gyaarah Gyaarah
On: ZEE5
Dir: Umesh Bist
Cast: Raghav Juyal, Kritika Kamra
Rating: 3/5