Mai

‘Mai’ pulls off a tough feat: it coaxes you to suspend tons of disbelief because you have been drawn into its world, and have become invested in its characters. Every time you go, how is that even possible (and this happens over and over again), you are yanked back into the narrative, which relishes its every gritty, grimy, ultra-violent beat.Mai Season 1 Download.

It’s set in a Lucknow very far away from its ‘nazaakat-filled gallis’, inhabited by people in very different spheres who normally wouldn’t have known of each other’s existence, till a fatal collision brings them together and changes all their trajectories. This is a conceit we’ve seen before, but what ‘Mai’ does is to refresh it by including an unusual ensemble, led by a homely, soft-spoken mother hell-bent upon avenging the killing of her daughter.Vengeful mums are also not new. Sridevi and Raveena Tandon have gone down that path in ‘Mom’ and ‘Maatra’, respectively. Sakshi Tanwar’s ‘Mai’ is similar only because of the subject; where she branches off from the straightforward revenge track is to get embroiled in murky goings-on involving medical scams, dirty money and very dirty mobsters.What’s interesting is how Tanwar’s Sheel never strays far from her ‘susheel bahu-biwi-ma’ persona, even as she burrows deeper into the dirt, getting closer to the secret behind her daughter’s accident. Those are precisely the parts which are hard to swallow. Sure, a grieving mother can be full of anger at the tragic turn of events, but the ease with which she does a flip every time she is faced with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle is a major stretch.Just how does a woman who divides her time between her family and the sleepy inmates of an old age home, suddenly become equipped to take on complicit cops, a dodgy businessman (Prashant Narayanan), a hard-eyed female gangster (Raima Sen), and brutal baddies, without turning a hair?Mai: A Mother’s Rage