Candy

There are too many flashbacks in Debojit Das Purkayastha and Agrim Joshi’s Candy. It does not matter if you have already taken note of some slippery behaviour in a scene, but creators of this show do not leave anything to chance. Rest assured, during a reveal, they will dutifully cut to a black-and-white flashback reiterating the ‘twist.’There are no ‘loose ends’ that cannot be tied up with the help of an extended flashback. In Candy, the flashbacks also become a way to lazily dump ‘context’ on the viewer because there is a backstory for each of the characters, so that their actions can be rationalised. One of the clunkiest of them all is that of Ratna Sankhawar’s (Richa Chadha) abusive marriage, and how the realisation triggers an abrupt change-of-heart that can only be found in a shoddily written web series.Candy Season 1 Download

The show starring Richa Chadha and Ronit Roy is the second murder mystery set in the hills this year after Amit Kumar’s The Last Hour. Just like the Amazon Prime Video India Original, even this one starts off with a supernatural connection to the crimes taking place in a fictitious town, called Rudrakund.Like these shows usually do, it all starts off with a murder. A boy, from the premier boarding school in town, is found dead inside the forest. There are many suspects for this, his bullies in school, indications of a high-profile rave party organised by the scion of the town’s local politician where drug-addled ‘candies’ are served to unsuspecting kids, and also an urban legend of monster in the forest called Masaan. According to the locals, the Masaan preys on kids in the forest, especially teenage girls.

When Chadha’s DSP Ratna Sankhawar starts investigating the murder, she is suitably detached and ‘unheroic’ about solving the crimes, which is a welcome change from the eager cops, all symbols of integrity and good intention. Chadha plays her part in a matter-of-fact way.