Farzi season 1 has been a refreshing binge, primarily for the, the relevance of main conflict, the multifold layers of the protagonists.
The main USP of season is undoubtedly Vijay Sethupathy, the Hindi dialect that has been retained makes it more realistic and refreshing. We have seen Mohanlal, Dhanush enacting key roles in Hindi mainstream, but Vijay Sethupathy is blessed to get a character that is raw to the core making us not feel the cringe on the dialect especially when the abuses are delivered.
The key characters screen presence are well balanced almost equally between Sethupathy, Kay Kay Menon. Raashi Khanna & Bhuvan Arora whereas Shahid gets the cream especially during the later episodes of Season 1.
Shahid's character Sunny holds the key, the detailing, his relations with his grandpa, his best friend Firoz and estranged relation with his grandpa's colleague Yasir. The character is confused and does not understand the rights and wrongs the society perceives in civilians, and at a point the character confesses it.
The making is absolute supreme, the locations, the characterisations, the treatment, the frames and it's tonality. The music treatment has to be called out, looks like it has been dealt with extreme finesse. The dialogues are very contemporary Mumbai and the humour typically is drawn out of situation through dialogues and it worked on me big time.
Performance wise, this is Shahid's best, he got an ample space an actor would dream for and he exploited this opportunity to his advantage. Now we need to talk about Zakir Hussain in the same breath for Vijay Sethupathy, their combination scenes were hilarious and they both performed so well lifting their scenes to the next level. Bhuvan Arora, wow that was a surprise, what a performance, and notable performance by Chittaranjan Giri.
Flip side, Amol Palekar performance was inconsistent, not sure whether it was intentional, I get the medical condition the character was going through still the scenes after his surgery his performance was not aligning to the character he was portraying. The tension build up could have been more severe with pressure from the active government, they looked stagnant, expected lot of heated conversations of government officials giving their perspectives, their directions that could have been more interesting.
Finally, there is a 2 minute cameo from Chellan Sir that could be a trademark for the makers for their future contents in this genre.
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