 "Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Vijay Varma's 'Mirzapur 3' review: Prime Video's iconic show gets darker and more dangerous")
Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Rasika Dugal, Vijay Varma, Isha Talwar, Anjumm Shharma, Priyanshu Painyuli
Directors: Gurmmeet Singh and Anand Iyer
Language: Hindi
The world of Mirzapur is only six years old in the eyes of the viewers but for the people who inhabit it have breathed and braved the violence, the humor, the rivalries, the infatuations, and the lust for power for years and generations. It has been a game changing experience for everyone invoked, affirming how the landscape of digital transcends the banalities of farcical box-office numbers and inflated egos. A lot about the show has changed in these three seasons. Fans and fictional characters have witnessed deceit, sexual and surreptitious rendezvous, buckets of iconic quips, and blood flowing like wine.
Unlike _KILL_ , which embraces violence with open and perhaps bleeding arms, Mirzapur adds tinge of comic elements that have made the characters impressionable and inimitable both. Pankaj Tripathi shows how his straight-faced reactions still continue to be more expressive than actors overdoing the sentiments bit. Ali Fazal isn’t just a man for the memes this time around, he’s a ticking time bomb that could explode at the slightest of provocation. Shweta Tripathi ain’t no Gulu either. Her arc is as exciting as her name. She’s called Gajagamini, and she lets her gun do the talking. And then there’s Vijay Varma, who plays Bharat and Shatrughan. The name maybe derived from the Ramayana, but the conflict of Mirzapur could be a battlefield of Kurukshetra where no one is allowed to be trusted.
The profuse profanity acquires a language of its own. Directors Gurmmeet Singh and Anand Iyer stay true to the blueprint of the first two seasons unlike Netflix’s Sacred Games, which collapsed under the heap of mediocrity and was unable to take its legacy forward. The one reason could be how everyone in Mirzapur has successfully retained the essence of their characters. The one who makes a lasting impression is Rasika Dugal; hers is a role that is hard to paint in one stroke. She displays shades of grey, black, white, and even red. Here, red could be lust, love, anger, and everything in between.
It’s also fitting how the frames get darker as the world gets murkier. It’s a game of cat and mouse but it’s also hard to decide who’s the cat and who’s the other animal. And since it’s all about cats and mice, the people absorb the qualities of being swift, cunning, and callous. And yes, charismatic too. Season three leads to more blood and badassery, and it’s still not clear whether there will be season four or not. The makers should give it a shot and decide for themselves who shall be the last man or woman standing in the lawlessness of Mirzapur. Who shall own the throne when there’s no game left to be played. And how far can the fans bear it when all their favourite people have departed to the skies. For this show alone, it’s never about what lies in the past, the question is what awaits ahead.
Rating: 3 (out of 5 stars)
Mirzapur 3 is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video IN
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