Based in the city of joy Kolkata, PI Meena is helmed by Arindam Mitra and Debaloy Bhattacharya together, as a tale of a professional investigator who witnesses an accident of an unknown person in broad daylight and the consequences she faces thereafter, forms the rest of the story.
The story builds episode by episode with the help of a dark environment which sets the mood of the narration.
The series maintains a continuous pace throughout.
Some good conceptualization has been made out of Covid 19 and it has been camouflaged with a socio political angle intelligently.
Like other web series in recent times, this one too has some characters with their individual sub plots. But a major weakness of the script is that these sub plots either lack proper conclusion or few things remain unexplained even at the end.
Camera work of the series is adequate and dialogues are well written. Editing is a portion where some more or better work was required.
Debaloy Bhattacharya has directed well apart from some minor flourishes. A better version is expected out of him for the next season.
Coming down to performances- Tanya Maniktala carries the show on her shoulders ably, despite the flaws in the script. She is absolutely natural as the investigator. Her character being the central one, more dimensions to it would have made her role more impactful.
Parambrata as usual has played his part well enough as the lawyer. His track too needed some meat for having a stronger impact on the story.
Jishu Sengupta is fantastic as the doctor out of every scope he has received to perform. He shines in every scene, be it conversation with anyone else or the action sequence.
Among the rest- Vinay Pathak, Vipin Sharma, Harsh Chhaya, Samir Soni, Saurav Das, Zarina Wahab and others have played their part well. Each one of their stories needed a proper explanation which is unfortunately missing.
All in all it can be a weekend watch with not very high expectations.
As mentioned before. A better Season 2 can be expected from the talented Team of Arindam, Debaloy, Parambrata and Tanya besides others.....
