What Is the Story About?
Disney Plus Hotstar’s flagship show Aarya is back with Season 3 Part 2, the finale episodes of the series, titled ‘Aarya Season 3 – Antim Vaar’. As her enemies close in on her, Aarya Sareen (Sushmita Sen) makes one last attempt to get her children out of the abyss of the crime world. Will she finally get the better of Nalini Sahiba (Ila Arun), Narcotics officer Inspector Khan (Vikas Kumar) and the Russians?
Performances?
After a consistently excellent performance throughout the series, Sushmita Sen suddenly looks awkward and out of sorts in the final four episodes. The fault, though, is not hers but of the mediocre writing of this segment of the series. Sikandar Kher has a powerful screen presence, which he uses to full effect. But again, it’s a very underwritten comeback of the outlier.
Ila Arun is in fine form as drugs czarina, Nalini Sahiba. Vikas Kumar hams his way through to the end. Geetanjali Kulkarni doesn’t have much to do in the finale episodes. The rest of the cast, especially the three kids, is loud, melodramatic and irritating.
Analysis
Aarya Season 3: Antim Vaar has by far the worst ending possible for a show that has been steady in quality and content over three seasons. Heck, the show even won a Best Drama Series nomination at the International Emmys, back when it was a force to reckon with. But the way the finale season of Aarya has turned out, it looks like a different show altogether, written by a different set of writers.
The story is messy and all over the place. It often jumps from one sequence to another in a knee-jerk fashion, giving a raw, unpolished feel to the narrative. The drama in the story is worse. It is dull, insipid, and lacks that urgent, edge-of-the-seat element to make it watch-worthy. On the contrary, it is overly melodramatic, with each character spouting terrible dialogues, the kind even an amateur scriptwriter would not think of writing.
The actors too look totally clueless throughout the narrative – as if they’ve sauntered into the wrong set by mistake. Sikandar Kher promises a lot upon entry but delivers precious little. Again, it’s not the actors’ fault – the blame lies with the mediocre writing and direction of the show. The dialogue is clunky and outdated — it seems as if the story is stuck in the last century.
The entire thing looks contrived and fake enough to give a feeling that something’s off about the drama unfolding on screen. As a result, none of the twists in the tale makes any kind of impact whatsoever on the viewer. A lot of the disjointed feel of the series is also because of pacing issues. The story moves at a snail’s pace, going round and round in circles while it’s at it.
The ending is easily the worst part of the already bad series. The entire Part 2 of the final season is enough to give anyone a raging temper with the mediocrity on display on the screen. As they say, screenplay and direction make the world of content creation go round. And in Aarya Season 3 – Antim Vaar, both come up short.
Music and Other Departments?
The music and background score of the series is just about average – nothing to sing hosannas about. The cinematography, production and editing are average.
Highlights?
None
Drawbacks?
Poor writing
Disjointed storytelling
Worst ending
Everything else
Did I Enjoy It?
No
Will You Recommend It?
No. Watch it only if you want to erase all your good memories of the earlier seasons of Aarya.
Aarya Season 3 Part 2 Series Review by Binged Bureau
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