Jamtara: Sabka Number Ayega

Until few years before, many people were not aware of this despicable place. I have been to this place few times not because I am near to this place or went for official or vacation -- I was forced to visit this place after being ripped off my life and money. Mass banking fraud happened only during last 5-6 years, after which this place came in the national media attention. But back then 8-9 years before, they did many other techniques to defraud people.

One among the victim was myself who became a victim of admission fraud. I hail from one of the remote village in North West India. I was 19 years old then, just completed my H.S school and gave medical entrance exam. My parents are poor and uneducated. It was in 2011, one fine morning these scumbags called me and inform me that I was being selected to one of the medical college in West Bengal through (AIPMT medical exam) charity quota. Back then I was not aware of anything, neither my poor parents are. They asked college admission and hostel admission will cost 4 Lakhs. They mailed me all the fake admission letters and documents of the college. Being village kid and from uneducated parents, we believed and transferred the full amount to these scambags. My parents are poor, barely has 10k in account had to sell lots of land to collect those money.

Then after a week, we are ready to reach the college for admission, I along with the cousin bro came to one of the college they sent us to. When we reached the college, i tried to call the number, but it's being permanently switched off. Then we went to admission cell and enquired, learning that all those papers were fake and there exist no such quote(charity quota for poor).

By then I was crying like hell, knowing what will my parents feel about it after selling the property for all these. More so, I'd have been okay if only lost money but i also lost one year of my career.

Next day, we went to police station to file FIR but they don't take cases just because we don't belong to that place. We are helpless by then. Next we went to ICICI bank to know the address of the receiver. Bank insisted we need to show FIR copy to get customer address details. But we clearly said to officials that we come from different state and police is not filing FIR. After narrating all the story one of the employee told us to wait, promising us to give the address by talking to manager. We got the address details of that scumbag, having two residential address one in jharia, another jamtara (nearby to each other), and his bank account in Asansol (west bengal 1 hour drive to Jharkhand bordering there). We went to that to their residential address but none of them exist, they are all fake and no such person exist there. They opened bank account with fake documents. That's it!

Travelling back to home was one of the longest journey in my life. Felt like I have been travelling to destination for 100 years. Since then my career affected everything, I am still not able to get out of that mesh and end up doing nothing substantial in life. Not just this story, it happened lot lot more than what I wrote here. But that's left for another day.

I want to burn down that entire region who are destroying the lives of millions. I never fail to understand why banks and institutions are spending billions to secure their banking fraud. Spend few crores and try help to nab and execute those scumbags there. These people are now spreading in entire country and teaching to other people in another region.

Jamtara introduces us to a new but half-baked world of phishing fraud. But at the same time it introduces us to some new raw talent of actors who give compelling performances.

The phishing fraud is touched only on a peripheral level with a group of village kids calling gullible customers from metro cities and asking for their credit card details to make fraudulent purchases. In reality, am sure, the phishing fraud has more to it. However this aspect doesn't hurt much as phishing is only used as a backdrop to this crime caper which has the regular trappings of ambitious kids hoping to make quick money, a corrupt politician, a new cop trying hard to cleanse the village, gang war between rivals, et al. In that respect the show creates a crime world of its own like 'Mirzapur' though the treatment is not pretentious like 'Sacred Games'. While the makers do not break new grounds in coming up with a crime world which we haven't seen earlier, they do present what they have with grit and conviction.

Most episodes of around 20-25 minutes are an easy watch and have interesting hook points ensuring you binge watch to an extent. Unlike other shows that come up with superfluous subplots to fill up runtime for around 10 episodes, here the narrative doesn't stray far. The main characters are well-etched. The pace drops and the flow goes a little abrupt in the last couple of episodes. And just when you start rooting for the protagonist despite him being an archetypal anti-hero, the show ends with an abrupt moral tone of 'crime-never-pays'. The end however is more conclusive as compared to other shows in the genre that end midways to make route for a second season.

Technically the show is well-crafted and the performances are a major highlight. Sparsh Srivastava as the lead is superb. Anshuman Pushkar as his rival has a hangover of Vivek Oberoi in his looks and Manoj Bajpai in his acting. His character however doesn't get much scope after the first few episodes. The female cast have strong characterization with Aksha Pardasany and Monika Panwar giving nuanced performances. Amit Sial glides smoothly through the role of a corrupt politician. Dibyendu Bhattacharya as the conflicted cop is also good.

Jamtara is a show that you will enjoy while you watch but might not stay with you long after.

I can't believe that something which begin so beautifully and was progressing so interestinly had such a cringy and awfully ending. Last two episodes were just horrible and make me wonder that it had the same writer and director who wrotes the first eight episodes. How can all that change so abruptly or some kind of favioratism were done at the end. Anshuman and Aparsh had done wonders with their acting and so did Dibyendu but Amit Sial was the star such a wonderful actor. Monika and Aksha were good but their characters in the end just got unnacessary importance and had change the plot for the worst. Just awful

Loved the series. couldn't stop myself to complete in single day. Very well acted. Specially by Bhaiyaa jee "Amit Sial". I think no one can act better then him when it comes to an role of an "Bahubali politician or Upper caste in society ". He really brings acting into reality. And i also loved the part of those two friends telling Mahabharat story Every time, they acted like catalyst.

Worth a shot... Dont keep expectations but it's good acting show... But seems something is missing at the end little bit of incompleteness.