Abhay Season 3 Assessment: A gritty and relentless crime thriller

STORY: Prime cop Abhay (Kunal Kemmu) is as soon as once more up in opposition to ugly killers, who’re taking harmless lives within the metropolis. However this time, a mysterious cult appears to be on the centre of all of the crime that’s giving Abhay and his workforce sleepless nights.

REVIEW: In the event you’ve been following Kunal Kemmu’s ‘Abhay’, it’s best to just about know the broad construction of its storyline (as described within the synopsis) and season 3 isn’t any completely different. Nevertheless, director Ken Ghosh and his writers handle to infuse a beneficiant dose of unpredictability this time round with a bunch of latest characters added into the combo together with those reprising their roles from the earlier seasons. And as soon as once more, the issue appears to be the identical – too many characters, too many subplots and never all of them get sufficient display house to justify their existence.

Nevertheless, there may be fixed motion when it comes to darkish and gritty murders that retains the viewers on the sting. Most episodes are stuffed with sufficient thrill making it fairly a binge-worthy watch.

Kunal Kemmu as soon as once more dominates the screentime enjoying the upright police officer, whose cop obligation is taking a severe toll on his peace and bonding along with his solely son. That’s the one plot displaying the weak facet of this in any other case robust cop. Vijay Raaz is terrific as Mrityu, actually, the harbinger of demise. Though, we want his trigger was extra convincing in the way in which it’s written. Tanuj Virwani and Divya Agarwal have probably the most fascinating observe – that of the social media energy couple Kabir and Harleen, however we want they’d extra to do. Ditto with Rahul Dev, who makes a fleeting look as Avtar. Asha Negi and Nidhi Singh reprise their roles as Sonam and Khushboo respectively and each have a really fascinating plotline that can hopefully see extra fleshing out within the coming seasons.

The setting is persistently grim and stuffed with the eerie atmospherics of demise lurking round. The backdrop of Lucknow and its darkish areas may be very effectively utilised to reinforce the affect. It’s a desi present that comes very near its Hollywood cousins in the way in which it’s executed, minus an excessive amount of gore and blood. The motion feels natural and the screenplay is fast-paced.

General, this might simply be the very best season of ‘Abhay’. We’re hoping that the following one will tie all of the free ends that Ken Ghosh has left hanging this time round. As a result of these free ends are the one factor that restricts this season from scoring larger.