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Two brothers. A dead body. Several suspects. And one more hill-station-based mystery: the writers of the latest desi OTT thrillers can’t seem to think beyond hills and dales. ‘Bloody Brothers’, directed by Shaad Ali, is about a hit-and-run-in-the-dark-of-the-night in Ooty, tracking those who pop up as the body is laid to rest, as they go about behaving in a furtive manner, exemplifying the Everyone Has Something To Hide trope in season one of this six-part web series.
It begins with a speeding car, a bang and a thud, and a body being dragged up a slope into a house. Swift flashbacks acquaint us with big-ticket lawyer Jagjeet (Jaideep Ahlawat) and sad sack bookstore owner Daljeet (Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub), brothers who haven’t been in arms for a while, and who happen to be driving together, in a state of vexation, for different reasons. From here on, the slate gets crowded: the dead man’s niece Sophie (Tina Desai) in town to tidy his affairs, his sly-smiley elderly neighbour (Maya Alagh), Jagjeet’s unhappy wife (Shruti Seth), a sleuth on the sauce (Jitendra Joshi), a bald-pated mobster (Satish Kaushik), a bad girl with a thing for women (Mugdha Godse), and a henchman who likes knocking heads.
Which is a pity, because this Applause Entertainment-BBC Studios India production has a fine ensemble cast. Of the lot, it is, expectedly, Ahlawat and Ayyub who keep us watching: the former gets a chance to wear cool suits, a nice break from the rustic, small-town types he’s played up until now, and the latter seizes upon the opportunity to recite soulful ‘shaiyari’ while looking into a pretty girl’s eyes.
Will the second season be sharper? We’ll see.
Bloody Brothers
Director – Shaad Ali
Cast – Jaideep Ahlawat, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Tina Desai
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