Tandav Web Series Review: Prime’s web series ‘Tandava’
Tandav Web Series Review: Prime’s web series ‘Tandav’ immersed in the grandeur of politics, touching the depth of politics, read the full review. The political thriller web series ‘Tandava’ on Amazon Prime Video was scheduled to be released on January 15 but was released a few hours ahead of schedule on January 14.
The series is directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, while several well-known actors including Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Kumud Mishra, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Sunil Grover, and Gauhar Khan have played important roles in the series. This is also Ali’s digital debut.
Tandava is the story of adopting every tactic of sam-daam-dandi-bhed to achieve political ambitions. However, despite the huge star cast, lavish scenes, and all the spices, the series does not get into the depth of politics that makes a political story a true thriller.
Tandav is a superficial political thriller web series that fails to engage the viewer. The fault is not even with the creators of the Tandava. In the last few years, the public has seen so many political debates in real life that both the understanding and the attitude of watching political-thrillers have changed and the same real events are spread in the series of 9 episodes.
Interest incident is inevitable. Be it JNU under the pretext of student politics and mainstream politics or farmers’ dissatisfaction with the government or the role of media in the current political scenario. The slogans of freedom, left, right and we need, the people are constantly watching everything.
The orgy consists of two tracks running parallel to each other through the characters of the series. One track is of student politics and the other is mainstream politics. Writer Gaurav Solanki may not have had to work too hard on the track on student politics, as he has created scenes incorporating the major faces and developments of student politics that have been in the headlines over the years.
However, writing certain scenes of mainstream politics has used some imaginativeness, but being unpredictable, they remain ineffective. Devki Nandan (Tigmanshu Dhulia) is the leader of the country’s largest party Janata Lok Dal (JLD) and has been Prime Minister thrice, is going to be the fourth time.
However, he dies just before the election results are out. Devaki Nandan’s death is the first major twist in this story. The power game begins at the party after Devaki Nandan’s death.
Son Samar Pratap Singh (Saif Ali Khan), an ally of Devaki Nandan since his time in student politics and the party’s number two leader Gopal Das Munshi (Kumud Mishra) and senior party leader and Anuradha Kishore (who has a personal relationship with Devaki Nandan) Dimple Kapadia), the game begins, in which Anuradha bets and becomes the PM. Anuradha holds a weak vein of Summer. He remains flirtatious, but is unable to take any step against Anuradha.
So Samar decides to become ‘Chanakya’, who will gain power by searching for ‘Chandragupta’. After becoming PM, Anuradha now faces the challenge of keeping old party veterans and summer camp. Summer, however, sees his Chandragupta in student leader Shiva Shekhar (Mohammad Zeeshan Ayub), who has become the poster boy of campus politics since the peasant movement.
The next story is based on the same political ‘Summer’ between Anuradha and Samar, whose commanders are Samar’s wife Ayesha (Sarah Jane Dias), PA Gurpal (Sunil Grover), and Anuradha’s PA Maithili (Gauhar Khan).
Tandava fails to offer anything new as a political thriller. Political developments are also seen repeating the age-old pattern, which the audience has seen in dozens of films based on political background.
Be it the prime minister Devaki Nandan, more important than the relationship or the relationship with the most ambitious son Samar Pratap Singh, or the relationship to climb the political ladder, or the desire of Anuradha Kishore to become the PM himself or the rival camp Bargain to break MPs.
Dialogues are important in political thriller stories. The lightness of the scenes is sometimes weighed down by the dialogues. However, the dialogues of the Tandava are simple and flat.
The biggest attraction of Tandava is its star cast, which is headed by Saif Ali Khan and Dimple Kapadia. Saif is fine in the role of an ambitious, ruthless and intrigue-by-intrigue leader. However, the work that Saif did in the negative roles as Omkara’s lame Tyagi is the climax of Saif’s acting journey so far, which he has not left behind despite playing all the negative characters.
