P. I. Meena Series Review

Posted on November 6, 2023

BOTTOM LINE: Too Chaotic And Convoluted To Make An Influence

What Is the Story About?

Prime Video’s newest Indian Authentic present P. I. Meena centres on a small-time personal investigator Meenakshi Iyer (Tanya Maniktala), who’s thrown into the massive league when she witnesses successful and run. As she digs deeper into the useless man’s life, she unveils a global conspiracy that will get greater the extra she digs into it.

P. I. Meena is created by Arindam Sinha and directed by Debaloy Bhattacharya.

Performances?

The perfect factor about P. I. Meena is certainly the casting and performances – they’re glorious throughout the board. Tanya Maniktala delivers an earnest and sincere efficiency because the morose personal investigator, striving to deliver finesse to the badly-written character she’s saddled with. Jisshu Sengupta is excellent as troubled physician, Dr Andre Rakhaw. After a very long time, he’s obtained a job that does justice to his expertise.

Vipin Sharma as Tridib Malhotra, Ritwika Pal as Annie, Samir Soni as Dr Nair, Vinay Pathak as Dr Basu, Saurav Das as Adi, Harsh Chhaya as Pritam Sen are all superb within the sequence. Zarina Wahab impresses in her restricted time on display screen.

The choose of the lot, nonetheless, is Parambrata Chattopadhyay as “fraud lawyer” Subho Roy, additionally Meenakshi Iyer’s potential love curiosity. The actor positively sparkles within the function, bringing his trademark chutzpah and cheeky humour into the combination. Parambrata Chattopadhyay’s efficiency is well essentially the most watchable a part of the sequence.

Evaluation

P. I. Meena suffers from the identical drawback that almost all OTT content material does nowadays – a grandiose plot that appears formidable and admirable on paper, however falls flat like a defective firecracker when executed on display screen. Additionally, the essential premise is simply so yesterday. We’re actually sick upto our ears with all of the sequence that peddle sinister conspiracies as their cause for being.

The plot is in every single place, hopping cities, then states, and at last, nations. It begins off innocuously sufficient, with a hit-and-run. And earlier than we all know it, we’re bang in the midst of a mysterious virus spreading like wildfire and killing folks and pigs. The sequence, at this level, offers sturdy ‘Contagion’ vibes. It’ll be good to do not forget that that cult film launched again in 2011. Twelve years later, we’re nonetheless rehashing the identical concepts time and again. The latest Netflix sequence ‘Kaala Paani’ had an identical premise.

Quickly, the writers’ grandiose although simplistic plot factors kick into gear. Phrases like “large pharma” and “organic warfare” are bandied about. Organisations like ISIS and its fictional offshoot “Thirak” come into the image. And at last, Russia and North Korea spring to mind, in an try to lend a sinister gravitas to the story.

Amidst all this, the writers fail to remain true to essentially the most fundamental necessities of a profitable present – well-written characters that make us root for them, that make us snort, cry and really feel all of the feels with them. The characters in P. I. Meena are simply not these. The plot too is so messy and convoluted that after a when you cease caring who’re the dangerous guys and who’re the nice ones; who’s threatening/stalking/taking pictures who within the narrative; who lives and who dies.

To sum it up, P. I Meena is a waste of sources for the makers; and a waste of your time, in the event you do resolve to look at it.

Music And Different Departments? Amit Chatterjee and Rohit Kulkarni’s background music is suitably sombre and sinister with out being loud and on the nostril. Indranath Marick’s camerawork is uninspiring – it barely captures the essence of each Kolkata in addition to the pristine great thing about North East India. Saurabh Prabhudesai’s modifying is satisfactory.

Music and Different Departments?

Amit Chatterjee and Rohit Kulkarni’s background music is suitably sombre and sinister with out being loud and on the nostril. Indranath Marick’s camerawork is uninspiring – it barely captures the essence of each Kolkata in addition to the pristine great thing about North East India. Saurabh Prabhudesai’s modifying is satisfactory.