Review By Kamal K
Fancy a miracle drug that perks up the mind. A little unimaginatively, perhaps, the drug is called Magic, though the name is meant to underline its sheer energising power. A band of do-gooder scientists want to introduce the pill and heal the world, but therein lies the rub.
Pharma giants don't like the idea of a world that is permanently healed by a pill. The drug mafia is irked, too -- what happens to all the 'maal' if a single pill starts defining bliss?
Shiv effectively, without coming across as too wooden while essaying the traits of an addict. Shweta Basu Prasad, Nakul Bhalla and Prakash Belawadi are authentic, but it is Ranvir Shorey who scores effortlessly as Jackson Lakda, the ruthless killer struggling to come to terms with his past The series completes its portrait of criminality by mixing dingy low life of the streets with the deceptively dazzling arena of corporate avarice. For a good measure, a jibe at peddlers of fake news is thrown in, too. The show is a trip on the fun side, though it never misses out on raw realism. And you could tag some extra topicality to it, perhaps, at a time when the 'high' life threatens to usher a low phase for many in Bollywood.
Fancy a miracle drug that perks up the mind. A little unimaginatively, perhaps, the drug is called Magic, though the name is meant to underline its sheer energising power. A band of do-gooder scientists want to introduce the pill and heal the world, but therein lies the rub.
Pharma giants don't like the idea of a world that is permanently healed by a pill. The drug mafia is irked, too -- what happens to all the 'maal' if a single pill starts defining bliss?
Shiv effectively, without coming across as too wooden while essaying the traits of an addict. Shweta Basu Prasad, Nakul Bhalla and Prakash Belawadi are authentic, but it is Ranvir Shorey who scores effortlessly as Jackson Lakda, the ruthless killer struggling to come to terms with his past The series completes its portrait of criminality by mixing dingy low life of the streets with the deceptively dazzling arena of corporate avarice. For a good measure, a jibe at peddlers of fake news is thrown in, too. The show is a trip on the fun side, though it never misses out on raw realism. And you could tag some extra topicality to it, perhaps, at a time when the 'high' life threatens to usher a low phase for many in Bollywood.