Review of web series CRACKDOWN |
Director Apoorva Lakhia`s directorial debut web series, CRACKDOWN released on OTT platform Voot select recently. In the series, the character Divya played by Shriya Pilgaonkar is a middle-class girl who is convinced by a RAW agent, Saqib Saleem`s character, Riyaz Pathan, to be a part of a covert operation, as she is a lookalike of a terrorist, Mariyam, who got killed in an operation by RAW. Riyaz and his team train her to be a terrorist so that she can help the intelligence agency in an operation to nab one of the most dangerous terrorists. The operation is carried out by a secret unit of RAW. This marks the premise of the espionage drama. However, nabbing the terrorist was like getting hold of just the tip of an iceberg. His death triggers a larger conspiracy that threatens the national security of India, while RAW, dealing with their internal politics, tries to crack down on the case. In the series, the office politics of RAW seemed to be one of the reasons why national security was compromised. The series gets you hooked with regular twists and turns in the storyline. The plot thickens post the fourth episode. The series begins in Mumbai and later moves to Nepal, Srinagar and Delhi. Written by Suresh Nair, CRACKDOWN stars Saqib Saleem, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Iqbal Khan, Rajesh Tailang and Waluscha De Sousa.
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