Web Series Review | Tooth Pari: A tooth fairy's fairy tale – Deccan Chronicle

The collection is a piece of fiction, says the disclaimer earlier than the fresco portray ‘The Creation of Adam’ by the nice Michelangelo greets us. On the opposite aspect of the graphic title montage, the world ready for us is Wiccan, bizarre, depraved, and wild. Therefore, we thank God that it’s a work of fiction and nothing like that occurs in the true world.

Welcome to ‘Tooth Pari’ by Pratim Dasgupta which might safely be claimed as the primary bona fide home-grown vampire collection. A second season too is hinted at.
Proper on the outset, we meet our heroine, Rumi brilliantly performed by Tanya Maniktala. She likes to straddle between two worlds as totally different as chalk and cheese – “Upar” (exterior world) and “Area of interest” (underground world). Rumi is a member of “Area of interest” which is fiercely guarded by AD (Adil Hussain), and led by Ora (Anish Raikar). Her finest mates are David (Saswata Chatterjee, excellent as ordinary) and Meera (Tillotama Shome, traditional as ever) and Sreela (Anidita Bose). The one human who is aware of of their existence is Luna Luka (Revathy), a witch who runs a coven, a secret society with a hilariously sounding identify, Cutmundu which is stuffed with members who’re lengthy within the tooth.

Rumi is a insurgent by nature and doesn’t like to chop, sip blood from the pouches organized from a blood financial institution. On one such nocturnal escapade of her’s to suck contemporary blood from people, she bites a person with a prosthetic neck and loses her sharpie, the sharp tooth used to extract blood. This takes her to Doc Roy, (Shantanu Maheshwari), a good 26-year-old virgin dentist who suffers from vasovagal syncope which makes him faint on the sight of blood. So, enjoyable ensues when the worlds of this bloodthirsty vampire and a human fearful of blood collide and the duo falls in love.

‘Tooth Pari’ is stuffed with blood and gore, folks dwelling for hundreds of years collectively and searching as if they’re of their 20s. The writing is sharp for probably the most half earlier than it tapers into mediocrity. As soon as it establishes the characters and premises, the difficulty is, it goes on hammering the identical to the extent of turning into boring.

Nevertheless, watch the scenes when the vampires talk about how the blood of people tastes… as if two people are discussing how a delicacy tastes. Hilarious. Some scenes are genuinely ingenious and intriguingly humorous. All this unfolds towards the backdrop of lovely up to date Kolkata, “Upar”.

The way in which the dimly-lit “Area of interest”, a microcosm in itself, has been portrayed is harking back to a goon’s den proven in Hindi movies of 60s and 70s, kitsch and garish. Equally, the VFX, particularly in the direction of the top, are amateurish.

‘Tooth Pari’ loses steam across the fifth episode when this fantasy story descends into a daily love story, worst a love triangle. It’s precisely at this level you begin noticing the size of episodes which until now streamed like a breeze.

Nonetheless the collection must be lauded for making an attempt one thing totally different and presenting it in a desi method.

The shock package deal of the collection is Revathy’s character. It’s certainly a delight to look at the veteran actor in a unique function sporting a salt ‘n’ pepper look. Given the maverick performer she is, Revathy makes probably the most of it. Although the character of Luna Luka begins off on a excessive be aware, it later turns into one-tone.

Shantanu and Tanya because the lead pair share a scorching onscreen chemistry and make a refreshing watch. Additionally, Sikandar Kher, as a cop attempting to make sense of those two worlds and battling his private points concurrently, is his ordinary nonchalant self.

So, if a unusual story of affection, life, revenge, insurrection and betrayal with blood-sucking vampires on the helm is your thought of enjoyable, do go down this rabbit gap which yow will discover on Netflix.

OTT: Netflix
Forged: Tanya Maniktala, Shantanu Maheshwari
Director: Pritam Dasgupta