(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): A little girl is kidnapped at a birthday party halfway through. The troubled parents of Sia, Dr.Avinash Sabharwal(Bachchan), and Abha(Menen) are beginning to lose hope when the police flail and time passes. And then one day, a threatening voice on a digital device announces there will be a drastic quid pro quo, involving other lives, to get her back there.
There are some portions of the show that topline Amit Sadh from the first season, reprising his troubled division of crime cop Kabir Sawant. He was transferred from Mumbai to Delhi, but his skills in managing anger are still as terrible. His fight is twofold: against his temper, and against a serial killer who is busy painting Ravan’s ten heads as his victims. The revelations have begun by the time we start to get the hang of the convoluted, confusing logic. We know who the ‘Bad Uncle’ is and as the show moves into a familiar denouement, the last few episodes extend our endurance even further.
Abhishek Bachchan has a few moments, but he can’t get rid of the stillness his character covers up. The next thing that we know, psychobabble involves split personalities. There are some people turning up to cover the trials. There’s a watchable scene or two, off and on, and then, wham, back to the table.
Somewhere in there are the foundations of a crackerjack mystery, amid all the roiling and toiling. Yet this poorly crafted season 2, hopping in and out of a drama of abduction, and producing and looking for a mad murderer, is mired in its own muddles and winds up being simply ridiculous.
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