The remake virus is slowly spreading to OTT . Uptil now, most remakes of rather unknown series were done pretty well, which includes the remake of a not so unknown series The Night Manager, The Trial fails to even impress me despite not having seen the original. Both Night Manager india and The Trial have been produced by Banijay Asia , while the former was terrific for me, the latter is just the opposite.
It's a remake of Good Wife, whose name surprisingly is taken multiple times in this series as if announcing loudly that yes this is a remake. It is a courtroom cum family drama series. They had a terrific director in hand Suparn Verma (who previously made Rana Naidu in March ) but sadly he couldn't execute it well.
The courtroom sequences are extremely poorly fleshed out. It's all in a haphazard. First, none of the cases (I mean the incidents on which the cases are being fought), except one or two, are shown to us so we have to just make it up in our minds . A glimpse of the incidents would have had greater impact on the cases. Second, not much space is given to any case. Each case comes and goes within less than half an episode. Cases are solved with ease, not much research is done and some research work done is not even shown to us. Some cases just don't end properly or have an abrupt ending and after that noone talks about it (except the one Juhi case). So many cases cramped in 8 episodes but none given ample time to be fleshed out...all because the series gives more focus on Noyonika aka Kajol's personal life.
Coming to the personal life part, only the Kajol part of managing her own family single handedly felt good and well fleshed out solely because it gets ample space . Other relationships like Kajol and Vishal's relationship, Sana's relationship, Kajol's relationship with Illyas and some other here and there add to the bore factor in this series. This was the same problem with a series in Prime named Guilty which has some terrific well fought courtroom sequences (which is clearly missing in this series) but had faltered in the personal life part.
I would like to mention one stand out performer in this series and he is the man who played Daksh Rathod. Terrific performance!! His attitude and words make sure he fans enough hatred amongst audience to make them feel like slapping him. His way of exploiting a helpless Juhi really made me fume .
I am seeing Alyy khan after a really long time . The man is a very confident actor and has a very mature voice . But sadly his character goes from terrific to really heart broken nibba types which extremely disappointed me and it's not his fault , it's the character given to him to play's flaw.
Kajol definitely does a terrific job in this series and certainly proves why she's still a really talented actress. But i really didn't find anything special in the chemistry she shares with anyone in this series.
Overall, a series that's more of a family drama than a courtroom drama where non work really well. They have left it for S2 but i really don't think it was needed because after this I feel it's gonna become some tv serial like series .
It's a remake of Good Wife, whose name surprisingly is taken multiple times in this series as if announcing loudly that yes this is a remake. It is a courtroom cum family drama series. They had a terrific director in hand Suparn Verma (who previously made Rana Naidu in March ) but sadly he couldn't execute it well.
The courtroom sequences are extremely poorly fleshed out. It's all in a haphazard. First, none of the cases (I mean the incidents on which the cases are being fought), except one or two, are shown to us so we have to just make it up in our minds . A glimpse of the incidents would have had greater impact on the cases. Second, not much space is given to any case. Each case comes and goes within less than half an episode. Cases are solved with ease, not much research is done and some research work done is not even shown to us. Some cases just don't end properly or have an abrupt ending and after that noone talks about it (except the one Juhi case). So many cases cramped in 8 episodes but none given ample time to be fleshed out...all because the series gives more focus on Noyonika aka Kajol's personal life.
Coming to the personal life part, only the Kajol part of managing her own family single handedly felt good and well fleshed out solely because it gets ample space . Other relationships like Kajol and Vishal's relationship, Sana's relationship, Kajol's relationship with Illyas and some other here and there add to the bore factor in this series. This was the same problem with a series in Prime named Guilty which has some terrific well fought courtroom sequences (which is clearly missing in this series) but had faltered in the personal life part.
I would like to mention one stand out performer in this series and he is the man who played Daksh Rathod. Terrific performance!! His attitude and words make sure he fans enough hatred amongst audience to make them feel like slapping him. His way of exploiting a helpless Juhi really made me fume .
I am seeing Alyy khan after a really long time . The man is a very confident actor and has a very mature voice . But sadly his character goes from terrific to really heart broken nibba types which extremely disappointed me and it's not his fault , it's the character given to him to play's flaw.
Kajol definitely does a terrific job in this series and certainly proves why she's still a really talented actress. But i really didn't find anything special in the chemistry she shares with anyone in this series.
Overall, a series that's more of a family drama than a courtroom drama where non work really well. They have left it for S2 but i really don't think it was needed because after this I feel it's gonna become some tv serial like series .