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Gyaarah Gyaarah

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Shilajit Mitra

About Gyaarah Gyaarah
Title: Gyaarah Gyaarah
Plot: Three cops defy the rules of time to investigate and deliver justice in a series of cold cases. How far will they go as they work from within the corrupt system to bring the criminals to book?
Cast: Raghav Juyal, Kritika Kamra, Dhairya Karwa, Nitesh Pandey, Gaurav K Sharma, Harsh Chhaya
Director: Umesh Bist
Editor: Prerna Saigal
Gyaarah Gyaarah
Shilajit Mitra
The Hindu
Middling crime thriller bids its time

Raghav Juyal, Dhairya Karwa and Kritika Kamra try their best in this unrewarding series with a promising core

Gyaarah Gyaarah, out on ZEE5 and adapted from the Korean series Signal, is a time-warping thriller of the dour, soulless kind. Tumbling across timelines, director Umesh Bist always makes sure to hold his audience’s hand. Bland letters appear on screen to indicate the precise date, year, location. Lest we lose our bearings, the pop-culture references are even more plain: Dil for 1990, Kapoor & Sons for 2016. This is a fairly unimaginative way to summon a period, to evoke a mood. It’s unlike the scene in Back to the Future where Doc in the 1950s exclaims to Marty, who’s traveled back from the 80s, “Ronald Reagan! The actor?! Then who’s vice president? Jerry Lewis?”

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