Following trend is also a trend. But that never means swimming with the tide. This is true that celluloid portrayal of crime thriller is today's craze. But one cannot ignore the significance of the composite word crime-thriller. This means a movie or web series must have the potentiality to thrill the viewers. The primary attraction of those films and web series made on legal battle on crime is to provide thrilling experience to the audience. Mere projection of crimes in an irrational and insensible manner can never be called a movie or the new age incarnation web series.
But What about Abhirup Ghosh directed Reeta Sanyal web series? The content claims action thriller web series. But how can one call Reeta Sanyal web series at all? It has utterly failed or deliberately ignored the basic requirements of cinematic art. This boring visual has failed in all departments. The storyline is not only weak and incoherent but there is enough reason to doubt whether this can be called a story at all. Naturally, it is next to impossible to find out the plot and genre in this so-called web series. Similarly, Reeta Sanyal is certainly one of the worst contents depicting courtroom in Indian cinema. This rather proves the level of declined creative bankruptcy. Same is true in case of direction and choreography of this. It has failed to ensure minimum standard.
The rest of the damage has been ensured by the actors and actresses seem as if they are yet to get ready for the first shot in a cinema. The reputed names like Adah Sharma, Manik Papneja and others seem in a mood of rehearsal during the entire web series. Except Rahul Deb, nobody seemed to be having the least sense of acting and cinema. How such unprofessional persons think of film making? This question is very relevant. This is beyond imagination that the performance of some can be so poor at this level. Really, miserable experience.
But this is hard to believe that they are ignorant of this. They cerainly knew that the content has no merit. Now see the tactical approach. After much hypes when the time came to release the web series, it released only the first episode. Total five episodes have been released so far. On 14th October it released episode 1, on 15th episode 2, on 16th episode 3, on 17th episode 4 and on 18th episode 5. The series did not end. However, on 19th and 20th October it released no episode. This seems a strategy of the Reeta Sanyal web series makers. They tried to befool the audience. They knew that if all the episodes get released on a single day, its popularity graph would drastically drop down. In this age when rating and reviews have become decisive factors to make movie or web series successful or flop, the web series makers did not want to take that risk. But this rather exposes them. They think viewers are fools. However, after the release of 5 episodes, it is evident that the content can't get momentum with such approach. Quality content does not need to build strategy to attract viewers. But can rubbish content attain success in this manner? The message is loud and clear; success needs potentiality and deliberation. There is no short route. This is not important whether the crew of Reeta Sanyal web series admits this. They may or may not. But if film makers try befooling the audience, they will lose the remaining space. In my view Reeta Sanyal is the worst content of 2024 so far. I must say abstain from watching this.
