Chiraiya
Drama Hindi
Kamlesh's world as a devoted wife and daughter-in-law shatters when her new sister-in-law confides a disturbing secret about her wedding night, forcing Kamlesh to confront uncomfortable truths within her own family.
| Cast: | Divya Dutta, Sanjay Mishra, Prasanna Bisht, Siddharth Shaw, Faisal Rashid, Tinnu Anand, Sarita Joshi, |
|---|---|
| Director: | Shashant Shah |
| Writer: | Divy Nidhi Sharma |
| Editor: | Aseem Sinha |
| Camera: | Subhankar Bhar |
Guild Reviews
चहकती नहीं चोट करती है ये 'चिरैया' यह सीरीज मैरिटल रेप जैसे संवेदनशील विषय को सख्ती से उठाती है।
क्या शादी वो लाइसेंस है, जिसके बाद पति अपनी पत्नी के साथ कुछ भी कर सकता है? क्या सात फेरों के दौरान पति को तन, मन, धन अपर्ण करने वाली स्त्री की ‘ना’ का कोई अर्थ होता है? क्या शादी के रिश्ते में भी ‘कंसेंट’ के कोई मायने हैं? वेब सीरीज ‘चिरैया’ कुछ ऐसे ही जरूरी सवाल पूछती है। JioHotstar पर 20 मार्च को रिलीज यह सीरीज मैरिटल रेप जैसे ऐसे गंभीर विषय पर आधारित है, जिसे ना समाज गलत मानता है, ना कानून गुनाह।
Bluntly confronts marital rape
Chiraiya takes on the uncomfortable, often avoided subject of marital rape in India. The JioHotstar show is based on the idea that marriage itself does not imply consent. For a while, Chiraiya really bends into that discomfort. But what starts off as a character-driven drama with a very quick setup slowly turns into something more heavy-handed and less satisfying. The six-episode Hindi series is based on an idea by Soumyabrata Rakshit, created by Divy Nidhi Sharma and directed by Shashant Shah. Set in Lucknow, the story follows Kamlesh (Divya Dutta), the ideal daughter-in-law in a tightly-knit clan led by the scholarly Papaji (Sanjay Mishra).
A Liberal Mind Undone By A Conservative Body
There’s a special genre of Hindi social dramas that distinguish themselves by making a mess of perfectly sensible themes. They’re so chuffed about saying something progressive that they say it with the confidence of a 5-year-old teacher’s pet. They’re so determined to school the average viewer that they do it in the syllabus of pandering. They’re so convinced that only intent counts that the storytelling is treated like a Zoom meeting with an attendance-not-mandatory option. Did I need to use such an unnecessarily colourful analogy? No, but it would help if the film-making tried to be as creative. Chiraiya is the latest example. It brings a cartoon knife to a live-action gunfight. It’s more frustrating to watch because the ideology is sound, but instantly subdued by the demands of a deafening algorithm. The result is a performative women-written-by-men project, where the depth is more theoretical than practical, and where artificial moments are spoon-fed to convey brutal truths.
A preachy, PSA-style narrative that spoonfeeds its messaging
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