Mithya The Darker Chapter  Gives A Good Name To  Sequels

Mithya The Darker Chapter  Gives A Good Name To  Sequels

Rating: *** ½

Applause Entertainment’s  Mithya: The Darker  Chapter  , survives ‘The Curse Of The Second Season’ and even manages to be better than the first part, in parts.Huma Qureshi Who is at best, capable of a competent performance , pull herself   out of  her comfort zone to play a lecturer Juhi Adhikari  of  Hindi  literature . As for her adversary, let’s just say Avantika  Dassani doesn’t  bring disrepute to the culture  of  nepotism.She  is  a better actress than her mother Bhagyashree,  which admittedly is  not saying much.

If mother  Bhagyashree did  Main Pyar Kiya, daughter Avantika’s  project could well be titled Maine Plan Kiya.  What a schemer her Rhea Rajguru is! In the  first  season  Rhea caught  her funky Teacher Didi making  out in the college washroom . In the current season  Juhi is caught plagiarizing another  man’s  book wholesale.

The characters  including the  protagonist are buried in the  grey zone from where they won’t hold their breath  to be rescued.Mithya The Darker Chapter is  the kind of ballsy breakneck  thriller that doesn’t shy away from addressing illicit sleazy relationships, even  if it  brings the  protagonists’ heroism  down by many pegs , and I do mean  pegs, as  the characters drink themselves silly and get their  innerwear into  a budge time  after time.

Every character   in Mithya: The Darker  Chapter  is flawed and to watch one  of them  turn around  and act holier-than-thou  after another makes  a cardinal  error, is  ironical, to say the least.

Set  in an idyllic  tranquil  Darjeeling ,director Kapil Sharma(no relation to the stand up comedian) constructs a sinister spiral  of  deceit  revenge and  nemesis, all  stewed in  the juices  of a steamy karmic  cycle.Undoubtedly  the pace of narration is brisk. Mithya The Darker Chapter  offers the kind of forbidden pleasure that  one experiences when on  a diet  , stealing brownies   from the  refrigerator post-midnight when the family is  asleep. It constantly  prods  the  baser instincts  in  its characters , and by extension, the audience, and prides itself for its pulpy proclivities.

 Admittedly there are some  wild, thoroughly  implausible  leaps  of faith in the  plot which I  cannot reveal

Compensating for  the  questions that arise while watching two women,  a teacher and her  bete noire  a troubled  borderline psychotic student , take  each other on  , are some rigorously ripening  rites of passage that take the storyline from one  summit to another. The men  get the raw  end of the stick. It’s the women who  hold this  show together.

 This  is one more winner from Applause Entertainment                      , and one that  proves there is  always  room for excitement on the OTT  platform.