Crackdown 2 #PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalCircuit #IndianOTTseriesReview

#PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalCircuit #IndianOTTseriesReview Title: #Crackdown #Season2 #viacom18 #JioCinema Cast: #SaquibSalim #IqbalKhan #WaluschaDesousa #ShriyaPilgaonkar #SonaliKulkarni #FreddyDaruwala #AnkurBhatia #RamMenon #RashmiAgdekar #HemantKher #EishaAChopra #RahulChaudhary #HarshMody Director: #ApoorvaLakhia Producer: #JessuGeorge Rating: * *1/2 Runtime: 8 Episodes / 30-45 mins each #PRPundit #everyone @everyone

Yet another Indian espionage series, this one highlights the Indo-Pak face-off between RAW and ISI which eventually leads to a joint operation that successfully manages to rescue 80 Indian passengers and the plane they were traveling in, from Afghanistan. There are more than one storylines meshing together here. The writing is a little loose, and the dialogues don’t sound natural but given the background of Indo-Pak hostilities and the jingoism that heralds any such depiction, this one manages to be interesting and intriguing enough even though the direction lacks tension and the performances take a little getting used to. The lead characters tend to go out of control every so often even though they are supposed to be highly trained RAW agents. The inter-relational complexities make this effort a fresher take even though much of the pair-ups and subsequent flare-ups feel implausible. The background score hypes up the mood in an obvious fashion. The heroics and villainy are very filmy in nature.