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24 - Guaranteed thrill and entertainment!
Just two episodes old and 24 guarantees edge of the seat entertainment and something new to Indian Television programming!
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'24'
Time - 10 pm to 11 pm on Colors
Producer - Anil Kapoor Films
Director - Abhinay Deo
Story - Rensil Dsilva
Cast - Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Anita Raaj, Neil Bhoopalam, Mandira Bedi, Tisca Chopra, Sapna Pabbi, Ajinkya Deo
The story so far - Jai Singh Rathore (Anil Kapoor)
is the head of the Anti Terrorist Unit set up in Mumbai. Shown to be a
dedicated officer, the story set for 24 episodes with each episode to be
showing the goings-on for one hour starts with Jai getting a birthday
cake for his wife Trisha's (Tisca Chopra) birthday. They have a daughter Kiran (Sapna Pabbi)
who too is part of the celebration while their son Veer too calls at
midnight to wish his mom. Just before the cake cutting Jai gets a call
and is called at office for an urgent assignment. He rushes off leaving
behind a sad family, while Trisha looks upset, Kiran retaliates by going
off to a midnight party with a friend without informing her parents.
After a bad phase her parents are now attempting a patch-up which Kiran
is desperately waiting for.
Even as Jai is on his way, he receives a call from his friend Wasim Khan (Anupam Kher) who has news about a traitor in the ATU (Anti-Terrorist Unit). At Jai's office, his colleagues Nikita Rai (Mandira Bedi),
Tej (Adheer Bhat) and others are waiting for him. During a quick
meeting with the RAW chief the team is briefed about the assassination
threat to the yet-to-be sworn-in Prime Minister of India, Aditya
Singhania (Neil Bhoopalam)
who is in Mumbai to address the nation on his father's death
anniversary. Apparently, his father too was assassinated on the same day
couple of years ago in Mumbai and his mother has plans to use the
sympathy in his favour. Aditya is along with his entourage of his mother
(Anita Raaj), sister and her husband, his cousin and his staff.
Even as the Singhanias are gearing up for the next day, Aditya gets a call from a news channel head, Mehek Ahuja (Suchitra Pillai)
who unearths a 12 year old secret where Aditya has been involved in an
accidental death at his graduation party. Despite knowing about the
threat to his life, Aditya takes off with his cousin to an undisclosed
location without telling anyone!
There is a parallel track
running with the terrorist group making plans of killing Aditya and a
plane carrying his official photographer Max is killed and the plane
blown mid-air with the killer shown to be a young, attractive girl who
saves herself in the nick of time as she ejects herself from the plane
and lands to safety with the help of a parachute. The assassin has got
plastic surgery done and now resembles the photographer.
Meanwhile,
Kiran and her friend Jahnavi are kidnapped again apparently by the
terrorist gang while Kiran's mother and Jahnavi's father (played by Ajinkya Deo) go around looking for them.
At
the ATU office Jai gets an urgent call from Wasim who is injured while
gathering evidence against the traitor. Jai rushes there and even as
Wasim dies in the shoot-out, he hands over to Jai the evidence. Jai
tries to find out who the traitor in his group is and the name of Nikita
Rai who is shown to be earlier in love with Jai flashes on screen!
While
all these incidents are happening in different parts of the city at the
same time, they all have a common thread and are connected to each
other in some or the other way!
What works -
Everything!
The Indian story adaptation is perfect with the characters gelling well
with the script and looking, behaving and dressing up like people do in
actual real life. The pathos of a family living in an urban setting
where work has to be given importance is shown brilliantly. The credit
for the same goes to writer Rensil D'Silva. It is a seat clutching, nail
biting drama minute after minute and you want to know what happens next
with each shot coming in with a new and interesting twist! The
Singhania family closely resembles the Gandhi family with the mother in
charge, son who is a youth icon wanting to be a PM, the strong willed
daughter who is married to a good for nothing husband however, the
makers have always denied this but it looks like an open secret!
We
like the way they have shot the outdoors in Mumbai at night... the
locations look real and so do the interiors - whether it is a plane, a
house, a party, or a 5 star. The production values are extremely high
and demanding. With so many parallel tracks running at the same time,
the multi-screen imaging works wonders and doesn't distract you a bit.
With an impressive star cast, there is no chance for a flaw when it comes to the acting department. While this is Anil Kapoor,
the film star's debut on Indian Television, he manages to make an
immediate impression on the audience. We can feel the pain in his heart
as he sees his friend dying and has to leave everything behind when duty
calls. Tisca despite her haggard and morose looks has something to say
even in her slow movements. The rest of the cast including Anupam Kher, Mandira Bedi, Anita Raaj, Ajinkya Deo, Suchitra Pillai,
Sapna Pubbi, are impressive too to say the least. While all these are
known names a special mention of the girl who blows off the plane - she
is not only a good looker but has a solid screen presence as an actor.
The
hard work behind the creative supervision of B.R. Sharan and Piyali Kar
is noteworthy and actually they are the ones who should be
congratulated for planning with such meticulous detail, and putting
together such a foreign concept to make it work in India.
What does not work -
Nothing actually... apart from a few bloopers that come to mind... If Anupam Kher is lying injured inside the cinema theater with 3-4 shooters inside the theatre, how does Anil Kapoor gain entry and reach all the way where he is lying injured so easily without getting shot at?
Also when Anil Kapoor
knows for sure that there is a traitor in his unit why does he forward
the data to the girl from his office? What if she was or is the traitor?
Why doesn't he wait to reach office and decode the data in front of his
eyes rather than sending it out and depending on someone who might be
the traitor? He actually asks for Nikita as he wants her to decode it
but since she is not on her seat it is done by one of her colleagues who
does the job for him and Nikita's name is seen flashing! How can he
believe anyone from his office when one of them is a possible traitor or
maybe there is a reason to it which we may come to know of in later
episodes?
Our take -
24 tele-series
is a fast paced thriller and the one hour episode just speeds past with
so much happening in it. The Indian audience which is used to slow
paced drama being unnecessarily stretched for days on end will welcome
this change of track. However, it does look to be urban centric with its
presentation and while it will have the metro audience (especially
youngsters) hooked onto it the same cannot be said for the audience from
the interiors of our country who may still want to watch the never
ending saas-bahu sagas every evening.
Seema Khot Mattoo
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