Khakee: The Bihar Chapter (2022) S01

As a righteous cop Khakee: The Bihar Chapter pursues a merciless criminal in Bihar, he finds himself navigating a deadly chase and a moral battle mired in corruption. Perhaps the biggest failure of Khakee: The Bihar Chapter is its complete disinterest in scratching beneath the surface. It’s the cop show equivalent of a flesh wound. But that might also be its greatest strength. This way, it’s more forgiving. Set in the badlands of Bihar in the mid 2000s, Khakee is surprisingly engaging masala entertainment that embraces its lowbrow values instead of pretending to be something else. There’s a rugged charm to its unrefined storytelling, as it willfully looks the other way at the briefest sign of moral complexity.Khakee: The Bihar Chapter Season 1 DownloadCreated by Neeraj Pandey and directed by Bhav Dhulia, Netflix’s seven-episode crime drama is happy just to be here, like a new police recruit so pleased with their ‘vardi’ that they don’t even bother to check if it fits.Karan Tacker plays the wet-behind-the-ears rookie cop Amit Lodha, a highly-qualified young man who is posted, like Ayushmann Khurrana’s character in Article 15, in a lawless new land that he neither understands nor particularly likes. But he is driven by duty, and almost comically upright. In one scene, his wife catches him smiling at himself in the mirror as he puts on his uniform in the morning. Calling him a boy scout would be mean; he’s practically a saint.As Amit climbs up the ranks over the next few years, as does a lowly goon named Chandan Mahto, played by Avinash Tiwary in a performance so transformative that it makes his brownface makeup more redundant than problematic. Women are forgotten, bodies are slain, and more masculine energy than even 10 Axe body spray commercials could contain is spent, as show puts Amit and Chandan on an action-packed collision course.Tacker, who previously worked with Pandey on the rather enjoyable spy series Special OPS, does his best with the limited firepower that the underwritten Amit has been given. Amit is an idealist, and that’s about it. Over the course of the season, he’s hailed as the police force’s brightest new talent, ‘shunted’ for some time after rocking the boat, and then reinstated as a potential fall-guy in the force’s manhunt for Khakee: The Bihar Chapter Chandan Mahto. Along the way, the show sprinkles in some rather worthless scenes of Amit in a domestic setting, but they’re given even less of a thought than the concept of privacy in a men’s urinal.

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