Khakee: The Bengal Chapter arrives as a standalone sequel to its Bihar predecessor, transporting viewers back to early-2000s Kolkata. The series opens on a tense highway crash that leaves a prominent shipping magnate dead, instantly exposing the porous boundary between politics and crime. A Special Investigation Team (Sit) is assembled to take down Shankar “Bagha” Barua (Saswata Chatterjee), a gangster whose reach extends into the highest echelons of power.
In casting Parambrata Chattopadhyay as Ips Saptarshi Sinha, the show nods to Bollywood’s tradition of morally driven lawmen, while Jeet’s Ips Arjun Maitra embodies a more modern, global archetype of the flawed hero—an approach that echoes Scandinavian noir’s emphasis on internal conflict. Bagha’s henchmen, Sagor Talukdar (Ritwik Bhowmik) and Ranjit Thakur (Aadil Zafar Khan), bring burdens of loyalty and ambition that evoke the layered criminal families of parallel cinema. On the political front, Prosenjit Chatterjee...
In casting Parambrata Chattopadhyay as Ips Saptarshi Sinha, the show nods to Bollywood’s tradition of morally driven lawmen, while Jeet’s Ips Arjun Maitra embodies a more modern, global archetype of the flawed hero—an approach that echoes Scandinavian noir’s emphasis on internal conflict. Bagha’s henchmen, Sagor Talukdar (Ritwik Bhowmik) and Ranjit Thakur (Aadil Zafar Khan), bring burdens of loyalty and ambition that evoke the layered criminal families of parallel cinema. On the political front, Prosenjit Chatterjee...
- 4/29/2025
- by Vimala Mangat
- Gazettely
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