Review of “Bad Cop”: The series by Gulshan Devaiah and Anurag Kashyap is completely “filmed” | News about web series

I haven’t seen the original German series of the same name, so I can’t tell you whether it’s a faithful copy or whether there are differences in the plot. But the authors (of the adaptation) are clearly Bollywood fans and call Gulshan Devaiah’s doppelganger twins Karan and Arjun: the former is a policeman, the latter a small “chorus” who has reached a crossroads in his “bachpan”, very much in the “deewar” style.

Basically, that sets the tone for the series, which is completely “filmi,” where angry eye-rolling is not the exception but the rule. Anything else I say will literally spoil your fun, but be aware that you may have seen the situations before, which might make you notice an upcoming twist. Or two. The rest is pretty straightforward; no time or space for any complexities.

Gangsters will swear. Cops will swear too. Guns will be drawn. A chase will ensue. Shooting will be fired. And so on.

Still, “Bad Cop” gallops along, spending time between the bad guys and the good guys, and there are some well-crafted scenes, especially when Karan and his colleague and older colleague and Biwi (Harleen Sethi) bark at each other and try to keep things under control in the presence of her young daughter. Sethi, who we last saw in the superb “Kohrra,” is excellent here too.

Arjun’s handsome accomplice (Aishwarya Sushmita), who helps him pull off the scams, doesn’t have too much to do: perhaps the last two episodes will make up for that. Saurabh Sachdeva turns up as a hard-working cop hot on the trail of a mysterious killer, and is portrayed as a good guy for a change. At least for now.

And then there is Anurag Kashyap, who plays a powerful gangster named Kazbe who rules over his ‘ganda-dhanda’ and his ragtag gang, which includes an inept, muscular guy who keeps botching his job. This is Kashyap as a vulgar villain, an extension of his villain in ‘Haddi’, only this time he is dressed in colourful ‘bundi-lungi’ outfits. A combination of black and purple or a shit-or-court sequence is impossible to miss. Oops, is that finally a spoiler?

There’s plenty of snappy dialogue and action sequences, and as I said, each episode is over quickly. But I’m not thrilled to be left hanging at a crucial point, when this is where the big reveal should be: who’s the good cop and who’s the bad cop? Or are they all con artists? Is this a parody of cop-and-crime shows, or do they want us to take this and them seriously?

The ending could be a smash or a bust. Watch this space, as they say.
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Cast of the movie “Bad Cop”: Gulshan Devaiah, Harleen Sethi, Anurag Kashyap, Saurabh Sachdeva, Bad Cop Aishwarya Sushmita
Director of the film “Bad Cop”: Aditya Datt
Bad Cop Movie Review: Two and a half stars