
Mistry
Comedy Mystery Hindi
Armaan Mistry is a brilliant ex-cop, who can solve the toughest of cases with no qualms. Just one problem: he has extreme OCD.
Cast: | Ram Kapoor, Mona Singh, Shikha Talsania, |
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Guild Reviews

मनोरंजन के पैमाने पर काम चलाऊ निकला ये 'मिस्त्री'

ओटीटी प्लैटफॉर्म्स को अपने दर्शकों को पकड़कर रखने के लिए लगातार नया कॉन्टेंट लाना पड़ता है, मगर इतनी कहानियां कहां से आए? इसके लिए अच्छा तोड़ है रीमेक। दुनिया का कोई भी हिट शो उठाओ, उसके राइट्स लो और हिंदी में अडॉप्ट कर डालो और इस कड़ी में नया नाम है ‘मिस्त्री’। राम कपूर की मुख्य भूमिका वाली यह वेब सीरीज मशहूर अमेरिकन शो ‘मॉन्क’ का देसीकरण है। कहानी क्राइम विभाग से सस्पेंडेड एक ऐसे कमाल के जासूस अरमान मिस्त्री (राम कपूर) की है, जो केसेज सुलझाने में उस्ताद है। वह उन सुरागों को झट से पकड़ लेता है, जो दूसरे देख भी नहीं पाते। लेकिन वह गंदगी जरा भी बर्दाश्त नहीं कर पाता, किसी भी चीज को बेतरतीब नहीं देख पाता, क्योंकि वह ओसीडी यानी ऑब्सेसिव कंप्लसिव डिसॉर्डर से जूझ रहा है। ऐसे में, उसकी असिस्टेंट शरण्या (शिखा तलसानिया) हर वक्त सैनेटाइजर और टिश्यू पेपर लिए उसकी मदद के लिए तैयार रहती है। दरअसल, अरमान अपनी आंखों के सामने पत्नी सुष्मिता को बम ब्लास्ट में खोने के बाद से ओसीडी का शिकार हो गया। इस वजह से लोगों के बीच उसका बर्ताव सामान्य नहीं रहता, लेकिन उनके तेज दिमाग के चलते क्राइम विभाग की इंचार्ज और अरमान की पुरानी कलीग एसीपी सहमत सिद्दीकी (मोना सिंह) केसेज सुलझाने के लिए उसकी सेवाएं लेती रहती है। 30-35 मिनट के हर एपिसोड के दौरान अरमान एक केस क्रैक करता है, इसमें एक नेता, एक ड्रग डीलर, एक गजल गायक, एक बिजनेसमैन आदि से जुड़े केस सामने आते हैं।

A Soulless Adaptation Of Monk

(Written for OTT Play)
The current landscape of the Hindi language streaming space is so dire that for every bad show, there is something worse waiting in the wings. This not just complicates comparisons but makes objective criticism impossible. For every “this is really the worst show” thought in your head, there is another informed thought that counters with “but don’t you remember that?” Mistry, the new JioHotstar show, is a little of this and that. Which is to say, it is an objectively bad series, but a worse series than it exists. Directed by Rishab Seth, Mistry is the remake of the popular American drama Monk. And while Seth reimagines it in an Indian setting, he also waters down everything fun in the procedural drama, making a damp squib of a series. The premise is the same: a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder, grappling with the sudden death of his wife, helps the police force to solve cases. Much of the allure of Monk resided in its character development and in using humour not as a means to make light of mental illness, but as a vessel to make it accessible. Mistry goes for cheap thrills.

Ram Kapoor Stars in This Uninspiring Remake of ‘Monk’

I remember binge-watching Monk back in the day. It wasn’t at the top of my American-sitcom-comfort-viewing list (Scrubs and Frasier were), but I was a Peter Sellers fan looking for the next Pink Panther-coded legacy. I was also curious about Tony Shalhoub’s Emmy-winning performance as an OCD-afflicted detective with all sorts of tics and phobias. Shalhoub was an uncanny mix of funny and sad, turning Monk into an oddball portrait of a grieving husband whose trauma became his superpower. Mistry is a scene-by-scene Hindi remake of Monk, starring Ram Kapoor as Armaan Mistry, a neurotic former Mumbai cop who is regularly roped in by the Crime Branch so that he can declare “the case is cracked” before the end of every episode. Mistry’s assistant-cum-nurse is single mother Sharanya (Shikha Talsania), who follows him around with wet wipes and hand sanitizers, protecting the man from himself while aiding his ‘freelance’ career. Of all the Hotstar adaptations so far, Mistry is perhaps the most uninspired one yet. I feel like I’ve written this line in a previous review before, but such is the business of long-form remakes. The lack of originality isn’t a problem — that’s just the nature of the beast, and who am I to question the commerce of conveyor-belt storytelling? Mistry is likely for anyone who hasn’t seen Monk, and unfortunately for those who have, the comparisons are crippling.
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