Masoom assessment: Boman Irani’s Hotstar present is a serviceable thriller

Masoom
Creator – Gurmmeet Singh
Cast – Boman Irani, Samara Tijori, Manjari Fadnis

Families could be essentially the most complicated human unit, and it isn’t at all times love that binds its members: it will also be secrets and techniques. The six-part net sequence ‘Masoom’, directed by Mihir Desai and helmed by showrunner Gurmmeet Singh, the duo behind ‘Mirzapur’, provides us the Kapoor household in Punjab, which reacts in numerous methods to the passing of the one who was its fulcrum. The loving husband (Boman Irani) appears surprisingly matter-of-fact, the elder daughter (Manjari Fadnis) is tough put to maintain herself collectively, the son (Veer Rajwant Singh) struggles to cover an important a part of himself, and the youthful daughter (Samara Tijori) feels that the dying was not attributable to a fall, however that it was a homicide.

Based on ‘Blood’, a 2018 Irish TV serial, ‘Masoom’ begins with fast introductions to the primary characters within the village of Falauli: the Delhi-based youthful daughter sobs as she drives in the direction of her house, devastated by the lack of her mom, the native cop (Manu Rishi Chaddha) who retains a watch on the populace, the daddy, a much-respected determine, who’s standing for elections, and the 2 siblings, who have been round and about when their mom handed. Or have been they?

A big stash of money goes lacking on the identical day of the dying. Are the 2 issues related? The plot features a few different characters who’ve been outdated mates and compatriots of the Kapoor household. A comely colleague of Kapoor Sr who appears too near him. A good friend of the son who’s clearly as much as no good. And a good friend of the youthful daughter who has by no means been capable of get well from the dying of his father.

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All of this could have been parlayed right into a taut thriller, however the result’s solely intermittently efficient and comes off, total, surprisingly cold. Samara Tijori, whose character units a lot of the motion in play, is so morose as to be single-note. Of the opposite performers, Veer Rajwant Singh strikes a chord, as does, as at all times, Manu Rishi Chaddha. And it’s good to see Boman Irani play one thing apart from the type of supporting roles he will get to do in Bollywood, however you would like his half had been written with extra heft. You know that he is aware of greater than he’s letting on, however he solely will get in a considerable chunk proper in the direction of the top, after we get to know all the pieces, he does.

‘Masoom’ comes off serviceable, as a substitute of memorable.