Gaalivaana Review: A fairly gripping thriller that comes with a shocking twist
Solid: Sai Kumar, Radhika Sarathkumar and others
Director: Sharan Koppisetty
Streaming On: ZEE5
Format: Internet Collection (Season 1 working into 7 episodes)
Ranking: 3/5
First issues first. This Telugu-language net sequence is an adaptation of the BBC miniseries ‘One Of Us’ (2016). The unique was written by Harry and Jack Williams, who get their due within the opening credit of the 7-episode adaptation. What makes this adaptation fascinating is that it is not a typical crime thriller the place the id of the offender is hidden until the primary half and even the climax. It is not a cliched homicide thriller the place deceptive components are launched in an try and cheapen the suspense.
Ajay and Geetha, who simply bought married, get murdered in chilly blood of their condominium. The killer Srinu scoots and rushes to Komarraju Lanka, the sparsely-populated hamlet the place the households of the murdered couple stay in a farmhouse-like neighbourhood. By then, the households of Ajay and Geetha are in complete disarray after studying in regards to the murders. Ajay’s mom (Radhika Sarathkumar as Saraswathi) and different relations attempt to save Srinu by tendering first-aid. Within the course of, they get to know that Srinu is there within the village after working away after murdering their son and daughter-in-law. They inform Geetha’s father (Sai Kumar as Komarraju) about the identical.
The 2 shell-shocked households now collect and most of them are satisfied that Srinu should be killed as a substitute of being saved. Shravani (Chandini Chowdhary), Ajay’s sister, dissuades them from making an impulsive choice. Nevertheless, a lot to the 2 households’ shock, Srinu is discovered murdered of their barn the subsequent day.
‘Gaalivaana’ is a uncommon providing within the Telugu OTT area within the sense that it would not blight the story with contrivances and low-hanging fruit. Proper from the second episode, the sequence units out on a roller-coaster journey, maintaining the viewer guessing about who might need killed the killer. Questions like morality vs humanity, ethical policing, and making peace with deviance are raised a lot later within the story. The viewer isn’t spoon-fed, she isn’t instructed who ought to be cursed and who ought to be sympathized with.
When Saraswathi says that she is able to be jailed for Srinu’s homicide regardless of her innocence (as a result of that may give her the perverted satisfaction of being labelled the killer of her son), we discover ‘Gaalivaana’ immensely emotional. Komarraju is saddled with a doubtlessly estranged teenage son who threatens to go rogue. At a time when the 2 households are struggling to remain afloat amid a sea of uncertainty, Nandini (Nandini Rai as an immoral police officer who will not forgive the transgressions of the Komarraju and Saraswathi households) propels herself into the disaster in surprising methods.
A few flaws make their entry within the center parts of ‘Gaalivaana’. Why do the characters talk about Srinu’s homicide and the try at a cover-up in locations like exterior a police station? So many people are concerned within the cover-up however none of them has the fundamental intelligence to cook dinner up a well-rehearsed reply for what occurred to Srinu’s car? Hari Gowra’s background rating would not fairly register the plot turns successfully. The staging of inflections within the story might have been extra tension-inducing. Sri Lakshmi’s entry within the closing act is purposive however the casting is humorous.
However then, this isn’t a true-blue homicide thriller for us to nitpick. It is about hidden secrets and techniques, simmering discontent, inhibited selves, and unstated fears.
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