Hunter (2023) Season 01

Hunter is an action thriller web series that follows Suniel Shetty as ACP Vikram in his journey to the dark alleys of Mumbai’s crime world. A mission to find a missing woman leads him juggling between his past and future. Hunter Tootega Nahi Todega is an Indian streaming television series now streaming on Amazon miniTV.[1] Produced under Saregama and Yoodlee Films, the series stars Suniel Shetty, Esha Deol, Barkha Bisht and Rahul Dev. A rogue former police officer (the audience is supposed to assume) is now a bounty hunter who kills, rescues, and traces people without questioning if offered a big paycheck. He finds himself trapped when he is named a culprit during an assignment, and the world is now running behind him. Oh, yes, he is also finding his stolen kidney in this mix. God bless our brain cells!

The only thing that works in Hunter – Tootega Nahi, Todega (three extra words because the first is already under copyright, I guess), is that Suniel Shetty one fine day realised that he is still relevant, he has got the style, he has turned supremely hot so that he can grace our screens again. But what he chose to come back with is where it all went wrong without even a tiny chance of redemption.
The idea behind the action and the comics-inspired nature of it is highly cringe and borderline funny. But there is one sequence that genuinely works, and it has Shetty locked to a bed, and he fights a goon with the bed attached to him literally in a hospital. The only good visuals, apart from Suniel watching himself in the shower while a woman he had a hook-up with is standing right in front of him, but he treats her like a ghost. Self-appreciation level 100!

Batra, all the characters are literal stereotypes of every dimly lit Hollywood action movie you might have ever seen.
Suniel Shetty still has got the style and appeal very easily. But if you choose to introduce him on a boat sleeping naked right below the Bandra Worli sea link as a White bikini-clad woman walks past him to lift a bundle of cash and walk away, how are we supposed to take this stereotypical troop seriously? Also, where did the woman go? Did she choose to swim to the shore? Probably Bandstand. And the rest is only an add-on to how generic this character is about to be. The actor tries his best to make this work, but what can he do?
The rest get one-tone parts to play who don’t get anything to prove their calibre beyond what is written, because everything is that single-layered. Esha Deol plays a woman who has spent the majority of her life in a remote town but now suddenly knows martial arts, can hatch wild plans, and, worse, execute them better than an experienced bounty hunter. Barkha Bisht, while being the most dedicated actor on board, gets to play a stereotypical wife who is attacked on her husband’s behalf part.