'Bard Of Blood' web series review: Bard to worse
Terrorism is a terrible tragedy. Reducing act of terrorism to a formula-for-thrills state of affairs may be a worst tragedy. Lately, we have seen many laments on global terrorism in the movies and on the OTT platform. Some just like the recent "The Family Man" integrated the non-public and world crises in a very appetizing fusion.
"Bard Of Blood" is, how do I put this politely, a mess.
A chesty conceit piece on pharisaical loyalty stuffed with anxious jingoism that really reminded me of the phoney self-righteousness of the Sean Penn debacle epic film "The Last Face" wherever goodlooking actors ran around in starched fatigues trying to save Africa.
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"Bard Of Blood" is even extra daring than Penn's film. It desires to save lots of the globe once it cannot save even its own enlightened ambitions from sinking into a pietistical chasm. The actors are partly to blame. While Hashmi tries to stay calm and grapples manly with aggressiveness and Shakespeare, his other two comrades in arms, played by Vineet Kumar Singh and Shobhita Dhulipala) run around with guns far more sophisticated than the series.
The problem here is one of narrative cramps. The writing suffers from a way of self-importance that the direction fails to justify. Not one incident in the plot is unpredictable.
The script scoops up the Hashmi-Dhulipala-Vineet Kumar trio and sets up a road to imaginary place that involves Pakistani terrorists with peculiar accents that need extra imperative writing than those cryptic messages from across the border that ar supposed build or break Indian intelligence.
Ms Dhulipala plays the expert in decoding messages. I wonder if she would be ready to decipher why we wanted a new long-drawn series wagging its cutaneous sensation fingers at world terrorists UN agency don't seem to be attending to watch the series anyway. Isn't there one thing as such perverted in attempting to convert the converted?
To its credit "Bard Of Blood" stages a number of its action sequences skillfully in rugged toasted-brown surroundings . Balochistan looks ripe for revenge. Is that a good thing or a Bard?
Web Series:
Bard Of BloodCast:
Emraan Hashmi,
Shobhita Dhulipala,
Vineet Kumar Singh
Direction: Ribhu Sengupta
Rating: 2/5
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