Indian Police Force series Cast: Isha Talwar, Sharad Kelkar, Vaidehi Parshurami, Mayyank Taandon, Vibhuti Thakur, Vivek Oberoi, Shilpa Shetty, Nikitin Dheer, and Isha Malhotra
Author: Rohit Shetty
Directors: Sushwanth Prakash and Rohit Shetty
Watching on: Amazon Prime Video
Spoken in Hindi
31–49 minutes (7 episodes) in length
What It’s About
Indian Police Force series : On this “Delhi Police Raising Day,” we see the cry for help to put an end to the bombings taking place throughout the nation’s capital by SP Kabir Malik IPS (Sidharth Malhotra) and his supervisor, Joint CP Vikram Bakshi IPS (Vivek Oberoi). Adhering to the same path as the 26/11 movies and series, Shetty makes sure to keep the story unaltered and support one of the most formulaic shows in OTT history.
What Doesn’t Work
The tale, which was written by Rohit Shetty and his writing team (Sandeep Saket, Anusha Nandakumar, Ayush Trivedi, Vidhi Ghodgaonkar, and Sanchit Bedre), is really a parody of what we have seen countless times. The sets are blatantly ‘fake,’ with everything perfectly polished and free of flaws. The poor writing makes the suspense built around a bomb subplot seem empty. A child is holding a bomb because he believes it will explode if he keeps it anywhere. After taking the bomb from him, a senior cop enters and continues the process until the device is defused. Why? Rohit Shetty ought to have studied the bodyguard’s bomb defusing scene, which is among the best scenes in terms of properly capturing the anxiety of handling a live explosion.
When the conversations get “rehearsed,” you know it. When the characters continue babbling their lines as if “subah unko Panvel nikalna hai” (RS easter egg), without even pausing to consider. Speaking of easter eggs, the scant comedy in this movie (as well as Cirkus) falls flat when Sidharth’s Kabir begs Shilpa Shetty’s Shetty to address him as Singham, Simmba, or Sooryavanshi.
Let’s count the cliches this show uses and see how many there are:
1 – The woman who loves him but her partner doesn’t realize that she is a terrorist
2: The junior officer will go into retaliation mode and lose his senior officer.
3: Terrorists will always find a child to abduct and flee from the authorities.
4: A lone, feeble terrorist inside the group breaks down and uses a cell phone to provide a clear clue, making it easy for the authorities to find them.
It appears from the program that Rohit Shetty originally intended for this to be a two-part movie, but he decided to turn it into an OTT show due to financial limitations and the fact that many people wouldn’t have purchased it. At more over four hours long, it is less suspenseful and substantive than two-hour documentaries on the same subject. Given that Delhi Police play a big role in the plot, why is it even called Indian Police Force? What if we dubbed it the Delhi Police Force? Alternatively, why not include an accurate account of the various national police forces’ contributions to support the title? Occasionally, action sequences appear to be moving at twice the speed, but upon closer inspection, it becomes apparent that the unusual camera angle was used just for effect. Distracting glares applied during a scenario where characters punch each other are another “for effect” item.
What Is Effective?
in this time, Shetty is the expert in utilizing the police siren sound in a unique way to create theme music for his projects. Visually and narratively, the hand-to-hand battle scenes are the most effective. Due to the extremely fake atmosphere produced by the show’s sets and the mediocre cinematography by Girish Kant and Raza Mehta, the large action scenes don’t fully land.
Celebrity Performances:
Because of how brilliantly Ajay Devgn, Ranveer Singh, and even Akshay Kumar performed in their previous roles as Rohit Shetty’s cops, Sidharth Malhotra’s portrayal of SP Kabir Malik is ineffective. Simply put, Malhotra’s Kabir is erratic and boring. Nothing he does at any point in time genuinely justifies the entire “Delhi Ka Launda” vibe, which seems too false to be true.
It’s ok to have Vivek Oberoi as Joint CP Vikram Bakshi. In one scenario, he will speak in a specific baritone, then the very next, he will speak in his regular voice. Luckily, the role is brief, or otherwise a lot more of his character’s flaws may have come to light (such as the instance where he nearly defeated the terrorist but was murdered instead because episode three of the show would have ended).
The worst persona of them all is given to Shilpa Shetty Kundra, the Gujarat ATS Chief Shetty, who is only ignored by the male police officers. She gets into a handful of action moments, but those aren’t principally centered around her. Was this the reason for the commotion surrounding Rohit Shetty’s designation as the “first female cop”?
Although their supporting roles suffer from the bad writing of their characters, Sharad Kelkar, Nikitin Dheer, and Mukesh Rishi carry out their duties as directed. As the adversary, Mayyank Taandon communicates more effectively through his performance. The greatest of the lot when it comes to acting without being ostentatious is Vaidehi Parshurami.
Final Thoughts:
All in all, if Cirkus represented RS at his lowest point in his favorite genre—slapstick comedy—this similarly degrades his second favorite, action.
