The conspiracy thriller gets its latest outing in Paatal Lok , in which an assassination plot turns into a dance between shadowy figures wi...
The conspiracy thriller gets its latest outing in Paatal Lok, in which an assassination plot turns into a dance between shadowy figures with murky motives.
Bursting with twists and twisted characters and anchored by a magnificent central performance by Jaideep Ahlawat, the Amazon Prime Video web series is a tour of hell on earth that is both familiar and fantastical. The brochure over-promises and under-delivers, but some of the grim and grisly sights along the way are powerful enough to linger in memory.
Three men and a woman are arrested in Delhi before they can carry out a hit on television channel head Sanjeev (Neeraj Kabi). Sanjeev fails to recognise them during a police line-up, but something about the ring-leader, a man with a fearsome gaze, gives him pause.
This man, known as Hathoda Tyagi for his chosen murder weapon and mode of dispatch, is the most barbaric of the quartet. Hathoda (Abhishek Banerjee) turned to crime to avenge the sexual assault of his family members, and he hasn’t stop sinking hammers into skulls since.
His team mates too have been brutalised by their circumstances. In a majoritarian society, they are from the wrong caste, religion and sexuality. They are both vital for the kind of dirty work...
