When Makers or OTT platforms rely on the current spices of the market more than the content, then they get eaten.
Voot Select Crackdown web series is also a story about the entertainment market's spices, in which nothing special was taken care of. Something new that attracts the audience.
There is a lot of lack of freshness in the story, tightness in the screenplay, and excitement in the dialogues. This thriller which comes on the Voot Select puts a temper of patriotism but is slow and boring in many places.
Especially the first four episodes. In which it is clear that the writer-director is finding it difficult to find the way forward.
By the end of the fourth episode, when he sees light far away in the dark tunnel, then somehow he is overcome by confusion.
Meanwhile, the balance and thrill of the story again and again upset. Whereas later a lot of things have been included in a hurry here.
This is a long boring drama of eight episodes.
The casting of 'Crackdown web series' is its weakest link, neither Saqib Salim nor Shriya Pilgaonkar seems comfortable in their roles.
Iqbal Khan's character seems to be implicated in the story only because someone wants a villain here, or how someone will become a hero.
Rajesh Telang is definitely relaxed whenever he comes on screen.
The focus of the writer-director is on Saqib Saleem and Shriya Pilgaonkar rather than the whole story.
As a result, the characters of Iqbal Khan, Velusha D'Souza, Rajesh Tailang, Ankur Bhatia have kept wandering. It seems that these people take frequent entries to give a break to the story of Shakib-Shriya.
In particular, the lack of work on the treks and characters of Iqbal-Velusha is a problem.
The difficulty of Crackdown web series is that it was not written correctly. One, it comes on track late and second its balance continuously deteriorates.
More than the terrorists and ISI conspiracies, the writer-director's attention was focused on showing the fights between the RAW people.
Giving real treatment to Apoorva Lakhia story, putting an angle of Mary's face in it, makes the web series a film.
Should you watch it or not?
Crackdown is a staple material that is partially dominant and partially predictable.
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