Criminal justice (season1)/ review
Name- Criminal Justice(2019)
IMDB Rating- 8.1
OTT Platform - Hotstar VIP
Episodes- 10(Season 1)
Director- Tigmangshu Dhulia
Lead cast- Vikrant Massey, Jackey Shroff, Pankaj Tiwari, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Anupriya Goenka, Rucha Inamdar.
Criminal Justice, which is being streamed on Hotstar, is a crime thriller, court drama and police procedural rolled into one. The Hindi-language series is based on the 2008 BBC show of the same name, which was written by Peter Moffat. The Indian version has been adapted by Sridhar Raghavan and directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia and Vishal Furia.
Aditya (Vikrant Massey), an MBA student, is good at football and bad at saying no to people. He is a kind of guy who doesn’t think twice before helping others. He even supports his father and brother-in-law’s joint venture a cab service, and drives a taxi at night in the streets of Mumbai to earn some extra money for his family. On a fateful night, a passenger named Sanaya Rath (Madhurima Roy) leaves her phone behind. One thing leads to another and a hangover Aditya wakes up next to his one-night stand Sanaya, who has been murdered. He get caught in a rape-murder case with certain undeniable proofs. Now he has to deal with his inner-self and fellow prison mates, whereas his family has to deal with shortage of money, media, social harassment, relatives and a new shameful life. It’s worth watching what twist happens when an cheap, given-up, small-town lawyer becomes savior and we get to witness a completely different world inside Indian jails that we haven’t any hint of.
Madhav Mishra (Pankaj Tripathi) is notorious for being a corrupt and money-minded lawyer and has a reputation within a circle of someone who cannot be trusted. But, he accidentally becomes Aditya’s defense council by fluke. On the other hand, Mandira Mathur (Mita Vashisht), an ambitious lawyer, represents the cab service in the murder case. Interestingly, Mandira’s strongminded assistant Nikhat (Anupriya Goenka) teams up with Madhav to help Aditya’s case from crumbling with some solid evidence. In the prison, it's an entirely different world for Aditya. Apart from grappling with understanding the politics of survival in jail and saving himself from being murdered, Aditya finds support in Mustafa (Jackie Shroff), who is the lord of the prison gang. With their growing relationship, Mustafa helps in transforming Aditya into a person — a version far away from his former self.
Vikrant Massey effortlessly slips into Aditya’s skin and makes his transformative journey looks compelling. Parallel lead, Pankaj Tripathi is stellar as the street-smart lawyer. The quirks of his character are a welcome (comic) relief in this otherwise - courtroom jail drama. Most of Anupriya Goenka’s scenes are with Tripathi, and they both lend good support to each other. Jackie Shroff sleepwalks through the role of Mustafa in his ‘beedu’ style.
“Criminal Justice” shows the irony that truth needs to be proven and brought into light when it is more or less ignored and unexplored by most, which is in contradiction to the famous proverb, “Truth Always Triumphs.” The viewers can sense the air of unusualness by the ominous signals given from the beginning, making them alert to closely observe the action.
Overall, criminal justice is engaging,but it could have had a much bigger impact with shorter episodes and a consistent rate. All viewers who are interested in watching OTTs that show reality closely without any sugar-coating should watch “Criminal Justice.”
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