Mandaar

One of the best Bengali series.

Positive sides: 1. Acting dependent is just on fire, everyone is just perfect at their character 2. Cinematography is just topnotch. Dron shots are really eye pleasing.

3. Bgm is just ❤❤ gives you chills time to time Negative side: 1. Screenplay is little abrupt. Starting is lil slow and ending is lil rushed 2. Not for everyone.

So much to give.... Waiting for many recreations on classics.... Cinematography, acting, location, aerial shots, dialects, lightings, cameraworks, characterization, everything surpassed so called as usual web series. We will be waiting for recreation of other classics from the director and the team.... Best of luck...

The webseries feels like a movies for cannes Film Festival and a modern remake of cannes classic gandu after a decade. It must be named gandu 2.0 with lead character mandaar as Gandu, police inspector as his rikshawala frnd and sohini as a new avatar of Rii in gandu 1.0. Why bengali wenseries are usually so complicated...

The unnecessary slo-mo shots in each and every episode made it a damn good story into an unbearable watch. Plus the loud bass thumping background score makes it even harder to consume.

A quite titillating and visceral adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth; Mandaar, with a purpose, displays devastating pursuance of Power and Political longings! Much like the original play, the treatment here, as anticipated is mostly gritty and the dark & twisted approach simply prevails.

With innumerable metaphors and some extraordinary performances; this directorial debut for the 'Actor' Anirban Bhattacharya has been nothing but a testimony to his immense talents.

Greed, Lust, Desperation; all shaped and moulded in one or another way through this relatively contemporized re-telling of Macbeth. Except for a few rookie missteps and a handful number of scowling loopholes; Director Anirban made sure the true essence of the original Shakespearean tale stay ever so pertinent. And with such ingenious and trusted minds behind the Sound and Camera; on a technical level alone, this has set yet another example.

The same impression applies to the whole ensemble as well. From the debutant Debashish Mondal to a veteran like Anirban Bhattacharya; everyone has been pretty sensational in their respective positions.

However, among this very talented group of individuals, one shockingly outweighed all! That is none other than Sohini Sarkar, in the role of Laili (or Lady Macbeth). I would go as far as to say, she's been some sort of a revelation here!