Worth a shot... Dont keep expectations but it's good acting show... But seems something is missing at the end little bit of incompleteness.
157 Reviews
Half-baked world of crime, well-defined performances!
xpics12 January 2020
Jamtara introduces us to a new but half-baked world of phishing fraud. But at the same time it introduces us to some new raw talent of actors who give compelling performances.
The phishing fraud is touched only on a peripheral level with a group of village kids calling gullible customers from metro cities and asking for their credit card details to make fraudulent purchases. In reality, am sure, the phishing fraud has more to it. However this aspect doesn't hurt much as phishing is only used as a backdrop to this crime caper which has the regular trappings of ambitious kids hoping to make quick money, a corrupt politician, a new cop trying hard to cleanse the village, gang war between rivals, et al. In that respect the show creates a crime world of its own like 'Mirzapur' though the treatment is not pretentious like 'Sacred Games'. While the makers do not break new grounds in coming up with a crime world which we haven't seen earlier, they do present what they have with grit and conviction.
Most episodes of around 20-25 minutes are an easy watch and have interesting hook points ensuring you binge watch to an extent. Unlike other shows that come up with superfluous subplots to fill up runtime for around 10 episodes, here the narrative doesn't stray far. The main characters are well-etched. The pace drops and the flow goes a little abrupt in the last couple of episodes. And just when you start rooting for the protagonist despite him being an archetypal anti-hero, the show ends with an abrupt moral tone of 'crime-never-pays'. The end however is more conclusive as compared to other shows in the genre that end midways to make route for a second season.
Technically the show is well-crafted and the performances are a major highlight. Sparsh Srivastava as the lead is superb. Anshuman Pushkar as his rival has a hangover of Vivek Oberoi in his looks and Manoj Bajpai in his acting. His character however doesn't get much scope after the first few episodes. The female cast have strong characterization with Aksha Pardasany and Monika Panwar giving nuanced performances. Amit Sial glides smoothly through the role of a corrupt politician. Dibyendu Bhattacharya as the conflicted cop is also good.
Jamtara is a show that you will enjoy while you watch but might not stay with you long after.
The phishing fraud is touched only on a peripheral level with a group of village kids calling gullible customers from metro cities and asking for their credit card details to make fraudulent purchases. In reality, am sure, the phishing fraud has more to it. However this aspect doesn't hurt much as phishing is only used as a backdrop to this crime caper which has the regular trappings of ambitious kids hoping to make quick money, a corrupt politician, a new cop trying hard to cleanse the village, gang war between rivals, et al. In that respect the show creates a crime world of its own like 'Mirzapur' though the treatment is not pretentious like 'Sacred Games'. While the makers do not break new grounds in coming up with a crime world which we haven't seen earlier, they do present what they have with grit and conviction.
Most episodes of around 20-25 minutes are an easy watch and have interesting hook points ensuring you binge watch to an extent. Unlike other shows that come up with superfluous subplots to fill up runtime for around 10 episodes, here the narrative doesn't stray far. The main characters are well-etched. The pace drops and the flow goes a little abrupt in the last couple of episodes. And just when you start rooting for the protagonist despite him being an archetypal anti-hero, the show ends with an abrupt moral tone of 'crime-never-pays'. The end however is more conclusive as compared to other shows in the genre that end midways to make route for a second season.
Technically the show is well-crafted and the performances are a major highlight. Sparsh Srivastava as the lead is superb. Anshuman Pushkar as his rival has a hangover of Vivek Oberoi in his looks and Manoj Bajpai in his acting. His character however doesn't get much scope after the first few episodes. The female cast have strong characterization with Aksha Pardasany and Monika Panwar giving nuanced performances. Amit Sial glides smoothly through the role of a corrupt politician. Dibyendu Bhattacharya as the conflicted cop is also good.
Jamtara is a show that you will enjoy while you watch but might not stay with you long after.
A phishing scam that will have you hooked!
sarowarparvej4 August 2022
If you are looking for a crime series that will focus on the part of daily lifestyle, you are going to enjoy it. Jamtara crafts crisp episodes with dramatic hooks and mounting tension that urges you to click on "Next episode".
Season 2: Interesting but deviates away from what it should be
Biswas_27 September 2022
I think after Season 1, the way season 2 progresses and ends, it is safe to say, Jamtara is no more a series based on phishing but rather a political / relationship story set in the backdrop of these scams.
S2 starts off from where it left with Sunny injured on the leg following the S1 climax night. This time they introduced few new characters, including Seema Pahwa who is against the wicked Brajesh Bhan (Amit sial) in the elections. What follows is a lot of madness, murders, kidnappings, scams and a search for who scammed the CM wife of 23 lakhs, the biggest ever done in Jamtara.
This season too is very interesting thanks to the very interesting screenplay which rarely dips. But this time they packed in sooooo many subplots that it is sometimes not easy to keep track of what is happening. A lot of commotion starts as the season progresses . What i dont like is the series starting to take the political route too much deviating away from scams as its major plot. The scams basically drive the political plot forward and also the CM scam one which forms another plot of investigation.
Point to note, this time, a lot of interesting scams are shown but in a shallow way but its ok i can understand now this series is no more to show you scams in detail (maybe it was never). Nevertheless, you will be invested in the proceedings despite flaws.
Performances. I hope Amit Sial doesnt get type casted into these villianish political characters (like his character from Maharani). But Amit Sial is just terrific. The hatred for his character is fanned so well, i cannot imagine anyone play this role other than Amit sial. He is a gem of an actor. Sparsh Shrivastava gets little screentime this season as compared to previous one but Monika as Gudia gets more screentime and she does a very good job. Aksha as inspector Dolly too does a great job as a non nonesense cop. Anshuman Pushkar gets an interesting role this season and he becomes the point of interest for S3 later. Others have done a fine job too .
S2 starts off from where it left with Sunny injured on the leg following the S1 climax night. This time they introduced few new characters, including Seema Pahwa who is against the wicked Brajesh Bhan (Amit sial) in the elections. What follows is a lot of madness, murders, kidnappings, scams and a search for who scammed the CM wife of 23 lakhs, the biggest ever done in Jamtara.
This season too is very interesting thanks to the very interesting screenplay which rarely dips. But this time they packed in sooooo many subplots that it is sometimes not easy to keep track of what is happening. A lot of commotion starts as the season progresses . What i dont like is the series starting to take the political route too much deviating away from scams as its major plot. The scams basically drive the political plot forward and also the CM scam one which forms another plot of investigation.
Point to note, this time, a lot of interesting scams are shown but in a shallow way but its ok i can understand now this series is no more to show you scams in detail (maybe it was never). Nevertheless, you will be invested in the proceedings despite flaws.
Performances. I hope Amit Sial doesnt get type casted into these villianish political characters (like his character from Maharani). But Amit Sial is just terrific. The hatred for his character is fanned so well, i cannot imagine anyone play this role other than Amit sial. He is a gem of an actor. Sparsh Shrivastava gets little screentime this season as compared to previous one but Monika as Gudia gets more screentime and she does a very good job. Aksha as inspector Dolly too does a great job as a non nonesense cop. Anshuman Pushkar gets an interesting role this season and he becomes the point of interest for S3 later. Others have done a fine job too .
This series reflected my story 8 years ago
JayPunter29 March 2020
Until few years before, many people were not aware of this despicable place. I have been to this place few times not because I am near to this place or went for official or vacation -- I was forced to visit this place after being ripped off my life and money. Mass banking fraud happened only during last 5-6 years, after which this place came in the national media attention. But back then 8-9 years before, they did many other techniques to defraud people.
One among the victim was myself who became a victim of admission fraud. I hail from one of the remote village in North West India. I was 19 years old then, just completed my H.S school and gave medical entrance exam. My parents are poor and uneducated. It was in 2011, one fine morning these scumbags called me and inform me that I was being selected to one of the medical college in West Bengal through (AIPMT medical exam) charity quota. Back then I was not aware of anything, neither my poor parents are. They asked college admission and hostel admission will cost 4 Lakhs. They mailed me all the fake admission letters and documents of the college. Being village kid and from uneducated parents, we believed and transferred the full amount to these scambags. My parents are poor, barely has 10k in account had to sell lots of land to collect those money.
Then after a week, we are ready to reach the college for admission, I along with the cousin bro came to one of the college they sent us to. When we reached the college, i tried to call the number, but it's being permanently switched off. Then we went to admission cell and enquired, learning that all those papers were fake and there exist no such quote(charity quota for poor).
By then I was crying like hell, knowing what will my parents feel about it after selling the property for all these. More so, I'd have been okay if only lost money but i also lost one year of my career.
Next day, we went to police station to file FIR but they don't take cases just because we don't belong to that place. We are helpless by then. Next we went to ICICI bank to know the address of the receiver. Bank insisted we need to show FIR copy to get customer address details. But we clearly said to officials that we come from different state and police is not filing FIR. After narrating all the story one of the employee told us to wait, promising us to give the address by talking to manager. We got the address details of that scumbag, having two residential address one in jharia, another jamtara (nearby to each other), and his bank account in Asansol (west bengal 1 hour drive to Jharkhand bordering there). We went to that to their residential address but none of them exist, they are all fake and no such person exist there. They opened bank account with fake documents. That's it!
Travelling back to home was one of the longest journey in my life. Felt like I have been travelling to destination for 100 years. Since then my career affected everything, I am still not able to get out of that mesh and end up doing nothing substantial in life. Not just this story, it happened lot lot more than what I wrote here. But that's left for another day.
I want to burn down that entire region who are destroying the lives of millions. I never fail to understand why banks and institutions are spending billions to secure their banking fraud. Spend few crores and try help to nab and execute those scumbags there. These people are now spreading in entire country and teaching to other people in another region.
One among the victim was myself who became a victim of admission fraud. I hail from one of the remote village in North West India. I was 19 years old then, just completed my H.S school and gave medical entrance exam. My parents are poor and uneducated. It was in 2011, one fine morning these scumbags called me and inform me that I was being selected to one of the medical college in West Bengal through (AIPMT medical exam) charity quota. Back then I was not aware of anything, neither my poor parents are. They asked college admission and hostel admission will cost 4 Lakhs. They mailed me all the fake admission letters and documents of the college. Being village kid and from uneducated parents, we believed and transferred the full amount to these scambags. My parents are poor, barely has 10k in account had to sell lots of land to collect those money.
Then after a week, we are ready to reach the college for admission, I along with the cousin bro came to one of the college they sent us to. When we reached the college, i tried to call the number, but it's being permanently switched off. Then we went to admission cell and enquired, learning that all those papers were fake and there exist no such quote(charity quota for poor).
By then I was crying like hell, knowing what will my parents feel about it after selling the property for all these. More so, I'd have been okay if only lost money but i also lost one year of my career.
Next day, we went to police station to file FIR but they don't take cases just because we don't belong to that place. We are helpless by then. Next we went to ICICI bank to know the address of the receiver. Bank insisted we need to show FIR copy to get customer address details. But we clearly said to officials that we come from different state and police is not filing FIR. After narrating all the story one of the employee told us to wait, promising us to give the address by talking to manager. We got the address details of that scumbag, having two residential address one in jharia, another jamtara (nearby to each other), and his bank account in Asansol (west bengal 1 hour drive to Jharkhand bordering there). We went to that to their residential address but none of them exist, they are all fake and no such person exist there. They opened bank account with fake documents. That's it!
Travelling back to home was one of the longest journey in my life. Felt like I have been travelling to destination for 100 years. Since then my career affected everything, I am still not able to get out of that mesh and end up doing nothing substantial in life. Not just this story, it happened lot lot more than what I wrote here. But that's left for another day.
I want to burn down that entire region who are destroying the lives of millions. I never fail to understand why banks and institutions are spending billions to secure their banking fraud. Spend few crores and try help to nab and execute those scumbags there. These people are now spreading in entire country and teaching to other people in another region.
Good begining but the end was awful
naxus_nkt19 January 2020
I can't believe that something which begin so beautifully and was progressing so interestinly had such a cringy and awfully ending. Last two episodes were just horrible and make me wonder that it had the same writer and director who wrotes the first eight episodes. How can all that change so abruptly or some kind of favioratism were done at the end. Anshuman and Aparsh had done wonders with their acting and so did Dibyendu but Amit Sial was the star such a wonderful actor. Monika and Aksha were good but their characters in the end just got unnacessary importance and had change the plot for the worst. Just awful
A must watch .
shekharsharma-1366613 January 2020
I really don't understand why some of the reviews given above are negative , I found this series so indulging and intense and gripping that I completed it in around 4 hour. The amazing part is the around by character which is amazing , the cast , the lose lose point where nothing is going right all , it's not fully digestible but a perfect series.
Kudos to jamtara team and Netflix .
Wasted opportunity
utsav_sharma2312 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The Good
1. Talented cast and effortless acting.
2. Real portrayal of small town caste based environment.
The Bad 1. Mirzapur and countless small city setup of a corrupt politician who is an untouchable don. 2. Characters making same irrational decisions over and over (like SP and his aide going to investigate shady places more than once and getting on trouble each time) 3. Climax. Although it's an cliffhanger for next season, but things don't add up to events leading to the climax. It frustrates you if you are involved in characters.
The Ugly 1. Tried to glorify phishing scammers.
It had the potential to mix "Mirzapur" with "The Wire" and real issue with Phishing scammers, but it somehow fails to deliver.
The Bad 1. Mirzapur and countless small city setup of a corrupt politician who is an untouchable don. 2. Characters making same irrational decisions over and over (like SP and his aide going to investigate shady places more than once and getting on trouble each time) 3. Climax. Although it's an cliffhanger for next season, but things don't add up to events leading to the climax. It frustrates you if you are involved in characters.
The Ugly 1. Tried to glorify phishing scammers.
It had the potential to mix "Mirzapur" with "The Wire" and real issue with Phishing scammers, but it somehow fails to deliver.
Season-2 is powerful too
rajkumar-6031025 September 2022
Season-2 just released is equally powerful like season-1.powwr packed performances, common man aiming to take over the top position, how complacency of ppl, surrounded by fools impact.
Season-2 just released is equally powerful like season-1.powwr packed performances, common man aiming to take over the top position, how complacency of ppl, surrounded by fools impact.
Season-2 just released is equally powerful like season-1.powwr packed performances, common man aiming to take over the top position, how complacency of ppl, surrounded by fools impact.
Season-2 just released is equally powerful like season-1.powwr packed performances, common man aiming to take over the top position, how complacency of ppl, surrounded by fools impact.
Season-2 just released is equally powerful like season-1.powwr packed performances, common man aiming to take over the top position, how complacency of ppl, surrounded by fools impact.
Season-2 just released is equally powerful like season-1.powwr packed performances, common man aiming to take over the top position, how complacency of ppl, surrounded by fools impact.
Season-2 just released is equally powerful like season-1.powwr packed performances, common man aiming to take over the top position, how complacency of ppl, surrounded by fools impact.
Jam'tara' flickers in dark !!!
Rish_tweets10 January 2020
The dark side of rural India depicted pitch perfect.
Director has researched the case & has penned a decent drama. Dialogues are well written & cast delivers in authentic Gangs of wasseypur flavour (warning : full of colourful language).
Grim reality of Indian youth trying to get out of poverty on a wrong path, cyber crime laws & darker politics jamtara leaves you with a lot to ponder on as it doesn't touch details.Also it could have been crisper & phishing could have been made a centre plot instead of using it as add-on to a village crime drama.
Verdict : You can binge this Star performer's Jamtara
Verdict : You can binge this Star performer's Jamtara
Full entertainment, worth watching.
kamlesh-8590018 January 2020
Loved the series. couldn't stop myself to complete in single day. Very well acted. Specially by Bhaiyaa jee "Amit Sial". I think no one can act better then him when it comes to an role of an "Bahubali politician or Upper caste in society ". He really brings acting into reality. And i also loved the part of those two friends telling Mahabharat story Every time, they acted like catalyst.
Bore very much boring
shumailzafar26 February 2020
Not a cyber crime story
opotraining31 January 2020
This series is not about cyber crime happening from jamtara. It's about a corrupt politician who is involved in phishing. 90% of the focus is on politian, gang rivalries, petty fights and how to capture the politician. Very less scope is given to show how phishing is done in jamtara . Every episode has 1 phishing call where scammer gets the credit card details.
There is no details about how phishing started in jamtara, how they get phone numbers, how they get so many sim cards, how they transfer the amount to bank accounts , how the scam is tracked to jamtara etc. Focus is only on the crime after phishing is done and its after effects. Cast is also a let down. Sp dolly was total misfit and also the cyber research guy.
This series is a big let down from Netflix. It's just another series about corrupt politician. The videos related to this series in YouTube from Netflix is much more better. Those who are expecting series about cyber crime , avoid this.
There is no details about how phishing started in jamtara, how they get phone numbers, how they get so many sim cards, how they transfer the amount to bank accounts , how the scam is tracked to jamtara etc. Focus is only on the crime after phishing is done and its after effects. Cast is also a let down. Sp dolly was total misfit and also the cyber research guy.
This series is a big let down from Netflix. It's just another series about corrupt politician. The videos related to this series in YouTube from Netflix is much more better. Those who are expecting series about cyber crime , avoid this.
Gripping story, stupid mistakes
sureshrattan16 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Gripping story line based on some real events of cyber-phishing. One stupid error is in telling that the newly appointed young superintendent of police (SP) has last year passed IAS exam - wrong. You have to pass IPS - Indian Police Services exam to become SP, and it is IPS which is shown her uniform. IAS people become distric adminstrators, not police officers.
Awesome show, better than Sacred Games
ankit-rohillaa29 February 2020
Potential but predictable
danishmay-4204012 January 2020
Being born in the same state Jharkhand, had just heard of the city named Jamtara, but never knew such true events did occur there. It just shows if you provide unlimited data to Young kids without proper guidance, such scams do take place. Coming to performance, the cast was perfect each and every one played their role perfectly. The story is somewhat predictable as you pass one episode after the other. Some village scenes that were shot were repetitive.
Long pauses and pace was slow. Could have winded the episodes to 6-7 instead of stretching it to 10 episodes.
It's not a series I would say that you should definitely binge. But you can give it a go if you like rural tales, strong language and performances.
It's not a series I would say that you should definitely binge. But you can give it a go if you like rural tales, strong language and performances.
Just blown away by the Performances
chirume13 January 2020
Not Up To Netflix Standards
nikhilonlineparashar10 January 2020
The plot lacked intensity and momentum.
Storyline was quite plain but still binge-worthy.
Acting and direction were great
This would have been excellent for a youtube web series but it's not up to the Netflix standards.
Mirzapur being in same genre, is much better.
Captivating story of crime and power
mmibappybd24 September 2022
From episode one to the end of the last season, it is quite captivating and thrilling. The portraying of political anarchy is too accurate and cruel which may get on the audiences' nerve. A great crime thriller. Although the focus has shifted from the protagonist to side characters in season 2, but it does not impact the story a bit. Introduction of new characters and the flow of story is very well depicted. A good watch that can keep one hooked from the beginning to end. I hope there would be one more season (s 03) to end up the story with a proper finishing. Nevertheless, the script and story is very captivating.
Good, Could have been better
aussiemalwayi12 January 2020
Intriguing, Season 2 is better than season 1
isthatusidhant28 September 2022
Watch it without any hesitation, you will binge watch it. Every episode will keep you on edge of your seat, surely season 3 will come. Character development of gudiya is interesting. They could have easily added one more episode to show the outcome of aftermath, it would have been lot of fun to watch. Nevertheless Ajit andhare did a good job and acting is top notch. Sunny was bit underutilised but given his situation it was understandable. Can't wait to watch season 3, I hope they start working it on soon. They can do so many things in upcoming seasons as the news scams have come in market again.
Starts off very Promisingly, gets nonsensical towards the end
hssuhas13 January 2020
The characters completely betray their build up in first few episodes and act opposite to what they were shown as, towards the end.
Apart from cashing on the sensation of the subject of Phishing scams, you realise there is not much to it once you finish watching the whole season.
Good but..
manugw26 January 2020
The series about crime handled by petty gangs and how some sort of feudal power is managed in some India villages far from Delhi interesting. The ending set up was too ubiquitous to carry on to a second season and left me a bit dissapointed. .
Sabka Number agaya!! Janhit mein Jaari!
laxmikantaghose13 January 2020
The budget and the star cast used in this series is incomparable with any high budget series. I loved it and the show will add one extra mile at Netflix! Kudos to the creator. We are proud that the director is from Odisha. The dialogue and the location used is the best. Loved each episodes.
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