Special Ops Webseries Full Honest Review
Help us and get a rubber band. Increase it now, a little more, now a few more. Here, these are the first five episodes of the Hotstar series of special apps. The next three are better in terms of speed and can generate interest but by then it will be too late. Fancy titles don’t do good either. The damage was done. Over and outside.
Neeraj Pandey, who is associated with some amazing Bollywood thrillers (A Wednesday, Special 26, Baby), co-wrote the series with Deepak Kingrani and Benazir Ali. He is also the co-director with Shivam Nair.
Due to Neeraj Pandey, one can expect this to be a cleverly crafted series. We all loved what we thought in Special 26, and the whole team of officers found the same distraction. However, there was also a man who gave us disaster called Iyer. And Special Apps is like Iari (sadly) with its like-slow slow-motion scenes, predictable twist, Absence of Logic and Bad Executive Story.
This does not mean that there are elements that do not match his successful actions. In the first episode we have the Old Delhi Delhi setup, which is reminiscent of Baby and Special 26. Then the classic Cat and Rat is chased, an officer mentions his superiors, secret agents, code words, inquiries. Despite all this, real life events, etc., special apps do not have the ability to engage us. The climax gives a moment of ‘thrill’, but never leaves us with unanswered questions.Producers try to reduce interest with high background music. Most people prefer unnecessary fight scenes.
Speaking of the story, we bring to life the Himmat Singh (KK Menon), a RAW officer who is not afraid to defy orders by acting in the best interests of the country. An internal audit is being conducted on him and he has been asked to calculate that he is spending large sums from government funds. In the beginning, it attracts attention (never questioned by an officer before), which gradually gets tired.
According to him, Dare revealed by questioning that there was a sixth person named Ikhlaq Khan, the mastermind behind the December 13, 2001 parliamentary attack. While others refuse to believe that man also exists, courage is his. Since then he has been trying to keep track and has hired five secret agents in different parts of the world.
Agents are Farooq Ali (Karan Tacker), Rouhani Syed Khan (Mehr Wiz), Balakrishnareddy (Vipul Gupta), Avinash (Muzammil Ibrahim), and Juheem Kashyap (Shyami Kher). Farooq was given a lot of screen time, as well as a backstory, but did not reveal much about the other four. They are there because the writers need them. Like some events that have to happen to pave the way to the climax.
In contrast, Special Apps has some amazing performances. KK Menon is a brilliant officer who never loses his composure even in the most difficult times. He is a protective (sometimes generational) father and loving husband. Menon's expressions range from soft to intense in moments and it's so much fun to see him on screen.
Karan Taker does a good job as agent Farooq and appears to be active throughout the series.
Others including Vipul Gupta, Muzammil Ibrahim, Shyami Kher, Mehr Wiz, Divya Dutta, Vinay Pathak, Sharad Kelkar do full justice to their roles.
Neeraj Pandey's Special Apps is not a double-watching thriller. If you have the patience to sit through the first five episodes, you can enjoy the last three episodes. But are there already enough thrillers available?
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