Tanaav

Excellently shot in picturesque locales. A thrilling series of plots & intrigue. It tells a tale of cause & rise of militancy in the beautiful valley of Kashmir with alleged vested political interests of the local leaders & across the border groups. How the youths were influenced by the ongoing situation.. It portrays the sufferings of the local population in difficult times & their sympathies with the disoriented groups encouraged by the outsiders. It also portrays the difficult times faced by local population and suffering faced by the security & intelligence agencies along with local population. The unity amongst locals is a treat to watch. At times the atrocities by agencies is also touched upon. The acting at times is too amatuerish though.

Web Series Review: Tanaav ( Streaming on Sony LIV)

A blast from the past actually. This is a Web Series from 2022 which I missed. Reviewing it anyways....

Tanaav is an adaptation of the internationally acclaimed web series Fauda.

The setting is in Kashmir where an innocent brother of a notorious terrorist - Panther becomes collateral damage at his own wedding in a secret operation carried out by the armed forces to capture his brother!!

This sparks off a chain of events that threaten to derail the peace in the valley that is already on the edge !!

The protagonist in the Indian version is Manav Vij as Kabir who along with his team comprising Arbaaz Khan, Rajat kapur among others attempt to thwart the evil designs of the terrorist Umar Riaz ( Sumit Kaul) and his team Junaid (Shashank Arora) and co.

Having seen the Israeli original by Lior Raz as protagonist Doron Kavillio, I was pleasantly surprised with the Indian adaptation.

Direction, editing, cinematography are bang on. This goes a long way in creating an edge of the seat thriller web series for the viewers. Production quality is high with a great cast. Everyone has given it their all and it shows !!

I saw this despite having watched the original Israeli series and enjoyed it immensely!!

Tanaav is 12 episodes long .. but don't worry.. length of each episode has a runtime of around 25 to 30 mins which makes it a bingewatch worthy opinion!!

Eagerly waiting for the 2nd Season which will begin streaming shortly!!

Going with 3.5/5 for this one .. Adios 🙂!!

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Tanaav is a very good show & it gets into action from the 1st episode. I was in am awe seeing this show & thinking Indian shows do have originality.

But then I watched FAUDA on Netflix an Israeli show & realised that Tanaav is word to word & scene to scene copy of FAUDA with few additional Indian masala added to the story.

Now I don't know if producers of Tanaav has copied, inspired or it's an Indian adaptation.

If it's an adaptation it's an excellent work done If it's a copy, still a very good job done by all involved in the show.

Be that as it may Tanaav is still a very good show & a must watch atleast once.

The series is a remake / inspired from Israel series FAUDA. Acting performance of all the characters are up to the mark. VFX & Cinematography are also good. Just one thing which is missing from the series is a good background score which is necessary for a series like this. Apart from that some unnecessary romantic scenes were included which is not at all needed. The chasing and kidnaping scenes are also not convincing, I mean literary they started firing and kidnaping anywhere in the city and also hurt 2-3 people at the same time. Good to watch if you have nothing to watch in your bucket list.

I think very few indian people out there have watched Fauda or even know that a series named Tanaav with half its episodes released (thanks to Applause entertainment's rubbish strategy after Criminal Justice 3) has come on SonyLiv.

Fauda was raw and authentic in its treatment. It was long and pretty slow paced but quite gripping. Tanaav on the other hand felt a bit faster paced and hence more gripping. If you watched Fauda already, then no use watching this series its frame by frame remake. I wont have reviewed right away after watching just 6 eps if i hadnt watched Fauda .

Now the big problem with these series set in Kashmir is that there are so many of them out there that now it feels you are watching one same old story again and again over the months. At this point, these kind of series set in Kashmir have become so saturated that its hard to tell whether you are watching a different series or the same one. I personally kept reminding myself while watching this series that "This is a new series, not some old one i have seen a few months back". Try capturing NE now. Problematic situations exist there also and a recent film named Anek had the courage to cover that then why not these series?

The authenticity of this series is totally lost in the gun fight sequences that looked so artificial at times with those vfx flashes and smokes . Gunshots sounded like some video game sounds. This where Fauda races ahead and away from Tanaav.

Acting wise, i didnt really like Arbaaz Khan and his dialogue delivery. He didnt have any boldness in his dialogues and was desperately trying to sound vocal and serious but at times it felt he was just reciting his lines. Manav Vij is a good choice .

Overall, i am not waiting any more for the next set of episodes. If it were to go by Fauda, there should be another 6 and i know whats happening there. Applause should stop this strategy immediately and also stop adapting foreign shows.