Saturday, March 22nd, 2025

Web Series Review: Khaki the Bengal Chapter, something new something old red color of Bengal, not unique story

‘Prem Kahani Dekhi Dekhi, Devdas Ki Paro Dekha, Dekha Dekha Dekha, Awesome Calcutta Dekha, Kissa Hai Gurdev’s Sur Taal Ka, Another Color also, See also Bengal’, these are beautiful lyrics of filmmaker Neeraj Pandey’s new web series ‘Khaki: The Bengal Chapter’ opening track, which claims to show a different color of Bengal. Neeraj Pandey has now brought its second episode ‘The Bengal Chapter’ after Bihar under his/her khaki franchise. However, there is no such uniqueness in the story, reverse from the claim. The stories of politics, gangsters and police Nexus have come before, but the inclusion of the culture, dialect and renowned artists of Bengal in the story of this thief-police, which is running in the streets of Kolkata, makes it attractive.

Story of ‘Khaki: The Bengal Chapter’

The story is to become ‘City of Joy’ to become ‘City of Bhoi’, which the task of improving is an honest and brave khakihari. The beginning begins with the kidnapping of the grandson of a leader of the ruling party, which is brought to the SIT, an honest police officer Saptarishi Sinha (Paravrat Chatterjee) to find it. The Saptarishi is exposed to the terror of local don Shankar Barua alias Bagha (Saswat Chatterjee) here. Bagha, along with his/her two boys Jai-Viru Sagor Talukdar (Ritvik Bhowmik) and Ranjit Thakur (Adil Khan), do everything, from smuggling to someone in broad daylight, because he/she has a hand of the powerful party’s powerful party leader Barun Roy (Propenjit Chatterjee). Since, the election is on the head and the Leader of the Opposition Nivedita Basak (Chitrangada Singh) makes an issue of the situation in the city, so he/she pretends to curb the Bagha through Saptarishi. However, in this battle, Saptarishi soon gets martyred and then entry is done, Supercop Arjun Maitra (victory). Arjuna is an officer to teach a lesson to the guilty by keeping the rules and regulations. In such a situation, how he/she makes Kolkata free from the terror of Bagha, Sagore and Ranjit, it will be known by looking at the series.

‘Khaki: The Bengal Chapter’ trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERVAC- BXK

Review of ‘Khaki: The Bengal Chapter’

Neeraj Pandey has mastered making a police thriller and his/her experience is also seen in this series. The series keeps the series tied due to its high speed and turn-twist, despite the connivance of leaders and guns, gang-wise and thief-police sees in the story and many aspects in the script. Director pair Debatma Mandal and Tushar Kanti Ray maintains the tension required for a crime thriller. At the same time, the presence of Bengal artists like Bengal’s settings, Bengali dialogues and Jeet, Prosonjit, Saswat, Paravrat gives freshness to the series. In acting too, these artists have filled their characters very well. However, the characters of Paravrat and Saswat Chatterjee are quite limited. At the same time, there is a shortage of layers in the character of Pronsonjeet.

Two other artists who emerge among them are Sagor became Ritvik Bhowmik and Ranjit became Adil Khan. Ritvik, who holds the sitar in ‘Bandish Bandits’, has also caught the dagger here firmly, while Adil would not be wrong to call the series search. Chitrangada and Akanksha Singh are fine. The series is technically strong. The eye of Tushar Kanti Ray’s camera is editing the editing of Praveen Kathikuloth, while in Jeet Ganguly’s composition, see the opening song another color too, will not move forward without listening to Bengal. In such a situation, if the crime thriller is fond of, then you can see it, but keep in mind that there is excess of violence in the series that can distract.

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