What Is the Story About?
11 members of one single family is found dead by hanging one fine morning. Crime Branch Inspector Anya and her team tries to uncover the mystery behind these suspicious murders and opens a can of worms enroute digging further. A fictitious version of the bone-chilling real time incident of Burari Deaths, the show tries to give a factitious twist to the well known (by now) crime story.
Performances?
There’s nothing stand-out about the performance from its leading actor Tamannaah Bhatia. She definitely looks the part, but also doesn’t fit the part performance wise. She also rather seems un-necessary to the story, or may be a star of her stature as her presence takes away the realism from an otherwise solid story (although popular enough).
The supporting actors however give good performances. Abhishek Banerjee in particular has aced yet another role of a conflicted, guilt-ridden man caught in between suspicious immoral and insane activities. The other actors who played the cops in the first two episodes are fine too.
Analysis
Based on the infamous Burari Deaths that shook Delhi in the year 2018, Aakhri Sach is a fictitious version of the case of ritual mass suicide that shook the nation. There’s everything told about the incident since years, multiple features on the same and the Netflix documentary being the most recent.
Aakhri Sach is directed by Robbie Grewal and written by Ritu Shri and Saurav De. The first episode starts off with Tamannaah catching a credit card scammer with her so-on-the-face attitude and smart mindedness until she’s called to investigate a shocking mass suicide of 11 people, all belonging to a single family.
Now that we know that Aakhri Sach is a fictitious adaptation of the Burari Deaths, there’s nothing surprising or engaging in the show anymore story wise. But, the show could’ve been engaging enough if the writing had been smarter. Unfortunately that’s not the case with Aakhri Sach.
Add to it, a protagonist character and actor who is such a misfit for the entire story. She just swings the line between cinematic liberty and realism not in a good way. To put it short, the second biggest drawback of the show is its need to introduce a cop character who neither conveys the vulnerability nor the psychological matrix of an officer investigating a crime of this nature.
The first is still its story. No matter how solid it is on paper, how many more adaptations of the same incident are we going to watch? Move on, write better stories and better protagonists like may be Dahaad or Delhi Crime.
Although the team has dropped only 2 episodes so far, one can’t help but doubt if people would care enough to wait for the remaining episodes, considering how a well made crime documentary House of Secrets : The Burari Deaths is streaming on Netflix since 2021 on the same incident.
Music and Other Departments?
The music department of Aakhri Sach hasn’t done anything commendable so far. The writing, direction and cinematography are particularly silly and too amateurish for a story like this.
Highlights?
core story
supporting cast
Drawbacks?
Tamannaah Bhatia
Amateurish execution
Sluggish screenplay
A story told multiple times
Did I Enjoy It?
No.
Will You Recommend It?
No.
Aakhri Sach Series Review by Binged Bureau
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