Gyaarah Gyaarah Review: Dizzying, Dizzying

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series Star Cast/ Actors: Raghav Juyal as Yug Arya, Kritika Kamra as Vamika Rawat, Dhairya Karwa as Shaurya Anthwal, Gautami Kapoor as Sanjana Tiwari (Aditi’s mother), Harsh Chhaya as Sameer Bhatiya, Aakash Dixit as Sub inspector, Vidushi Manaduli as Birju’s Mother, Azaya Seth as young Aditi

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series Director: Umesh Bist

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series Release Date: August 09, 2024

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series Available On: Zee5 OTT Platform

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series Released/ Available In Languages: Hindi

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series Number Of Episodes: 8

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series Episode Duration: 46 minutes (approx each episode)

Gyaarah Gyaarah Critic Review:

Adapted by Umesh Bist from the Korean drama Signal, and directed by him, a thriller that keeps moving from the 90s to 2001 and 2016 can make the head spin.

Add to it an element of the unbelievable.

It kicks off chillingly with the kidnap and brutal murder of young Aditi (Azaya Seth) from a Dussehra mela in Uttarakhand. A little boy had watched Aditi being led away and her body was later found in the river wearing the mask of a bear.

That was in 2001.

In 2016, there’s a move by the government to extend the statute of limitations to criminal cases. The clock ticks as new cop and ace profiler Yug Arya (Raghav Juyal) races against time to re-open the Aditi murder case of 2001 and bring justice to her mother Sanjana Tiwari (Gautami Kapoor) who has been on a protest outside the police station.

It is the first two episodes that set an intriguing pace as straight-talking Yug is abrasive but perceptive. Assessing his integrity by looking at his expensive watch, Yug straightaway tells off a food-munching colleague that he’s wearing more than two years’ salary on his wrist. On many an occasion, he bluntly reminds other cops that he hasn’t joined the force to bootlick the superiors. Yug’s exasperated senior, Vamika Rawat (Kritika Kamra) who’d been a fresher in 2001, comes around to accepting his skills and his single-minded dedication as they set out to nail Aditi’s killer with the statute hanging over their heads as an impossible deadline.

Unhappy and unwilling to stand by his team is abusive Sameer Bhatia (Harsh Chhaya), now the IGP, who’d been happy to close the case in 2001 after declaring a missing person as the culprit.

But Yug is confident that the real killer is still out there because he was the little boy at the mela who’d seen Aditi being led away by a woman, not a man. No policeman had listened to the little boy’s desperate attempts to steer the investigation towards a woman. Now a cop, Yug must find the culprit. But Vamika and he must do it before the statute kicks into place and renders their case invalid.

Although there are the usual distractions of Vamika’s mother pestering her at work to get married, an ingredient present in every female cop story including Dahaad last year, and Harsh Chhaya after Undekhi is getting typecast as the gaali-spewing senior, catching the culprit and racing against time makes it a thrilling watch.

However, there’s a quizzical connection between the past and 2016. Electrical flickering in Yug’s house activates an antique wireless (that doesn’t even have batteries, as his colleagues point out with disbelief) which connects him with Shaurya Anthwal (Dhairya Karwa), a cop from another era. Shaurya had investigated the Aditi murder case in 2001.

Once you can digest that piece of sci-fi, different cold cases from the past are reopened and solved in 2016, largely helped by Yug’s communication with Shaurya, on duty in the 90s right up to 2001. A tie-and-dye serial murder case from the 90s, a kidnap in 2016 that had its roots in the 90s, IGP Bhatia has the impossible thrown at Monica, Yug and their team.

In 2016, armed with the knowledge of what happened in the 90s, Yug even veers towards believing that maybe he can prevent a crime and change the past.

What stands out is Raghav Juyal’s performance as Yug, complicated but well pulled off. Coming a far second is pretty Kritika Kamra. Dhairya has screen presence and gets to do a lot of the action.

All very well except that the episodes are stretched, and the pace drops in sequences like Shaurya coming to terms with a loss and going to the movies with a sad face, a sad song playing in the background. The time travel is dizzying, taking a while to decipher where we’re at. And once the novelty of the weird wireless communication wears off, the unanswered questions linger on and on. What’s the connection between Yug and Shaurya who’d disappeared after being framed for corruption back then? Only Yug who was on the walkie-talkie with Shaurya, knows that he wasn’t on the run but was at a textile mill on the trail of Aditi’s murderer. Can he clear Shaurya of the corruption charge? What was the relationship between Shaurya and Monica? What’s Bhatia hiding? Why did a lab assistant falsify his reports?

There’s enough for another season to provide answers.

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series – Watch Or Not?: Watch it. Even if the premise is a little difficult to swallow, it does make a different watch.

Gyaarah Gyaarah TV Series Review Score Rating: 2.5 out of 5 (i.e. 2.5/5)

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