The action picks up when the terrorists from Pakistan AK-47 their way into the hospital and it's a long day and night of murder, mayhem and bloodshed as the medics find themselves in the midst/joining a battle between the police and the killers. Some of the characters with lesser parts did excellent jobs - Prakash Belawadi as the pushover but ultimately courageous hospital administrator Dr Mani Subramanium Mishal Raheja as the easy-going but caring doctor colleague Dr Sahil Aggarwal Balaji Gauri as the severe, cross-hanging-at-her-neck Mallu nurse Sneha Cherian Satyajeet Dubey as young, sensitive, earnest intern Dr Ahaan Mirza and the boys who played the terrorists, especially Amit Verma, did it with elan.Ī word on the storyline which - we warn you - deviates radically from the actual events of 26/11: The first day of internship for medical graduates Ahaan, Diya and Sujata is baptism by fire when terror attack victims flood 'Bombay General Hospital' and they work shoulder to shoulder with ace trauma surgeon Dr Oberoi and his super-efficient nursing team, aided by the cool Dr Sahil. Natasha Bhardwaj capably plays (three stars) the charming, pretty but fragile and troubled Dr Moneybags's doctor daughter. Tina Desai, as the Bengali-speaking brave hotel hospitality manager, is frickin' good. Shreya Dhanwanthary essays quite well the role of the panting, half-demented television journalist insatiable for the most dramatic breaking news, ethics be damned. Konkona Sen Sharma's character, as the head of hospital social services, is slightly vague but her histrionics are top notch. Mohit Raina does a fairly masterful job as the angry-young-man-going-to-be-middle-aged man but deeply humane Dr Kaushik Oberoi, when he is not jumping on people's chests trying to get their hearts re-started or gleefully defibrillating or yelling f**k every two seconds. There is a bunch of above average acting put in by the bouquet of actors who appear on the series. Actually, let’s be charitable, it’s quite a good, competently-made series. Once you do that and sit down to watch it with your microwaved popcorn (slightly cheaper than the multiplex fare) in hand, it’s a decent watch.
KHICHDI EPISODES LICENSE
You can chalk all the confusing khichdi done with the historical facts down to creative license and get on with the viewing. It's a slightly bewildering fictional docu-series. but some sort of cross-breed caught in the middle. Like an okapi, which is neither fully zebra nor fully antelope or fully giraffe, Nikkhil Advani's Amazon Prime Video series, based on Mumbai's arguably worst terrorist attack, 26/11, is neither a masala film nor a documentary.
KHICHDI EPISODES SERIES
One ended up spending the first two episodes (98 minutes) of the Mumbai Diaries 26/11 series painfully trying to diagnose what kind of beast it is, especially since the facts were all ulta-pulta. What about the incredible bravery of Mumbai policeman Tukaram Omble who actually wrestled a terrorist? Why is a hospital the location for a fierce, fight-to-death gun battle instead of a hotel, where actual gun battles took place in 2008? So how come the first persons they shot onscreen in the Taj (called Palace hotel) were two Arabs? The actual attackers from Pakistan made an attempt not to kill any Muslims when they went on a killing spree on Novemin Mumbai. How did two senior Mumbai police officers die, instead of three, and in the hospital instead of on the spot? Why did one of the 26/11 terrorists, who died, come alive? What was the need to fictionalise a series on real events that were far more horrific because they were real? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.