Breathe: Into the shadows Web Series Review: 'Breathe 2 slow bro'

Breathe Into the shadowsOn Amazon Prime VideoDir Mayank SharmaCast Abhishek Bachchan Amit Sadh Nithya MenenRatingSomething about watching characters wear masks on screen when the content has premiered during times of COVID19 while they were shot much before Almost feels like Freudian slips for the unknown future they were meant to be consumed inFelt this way looking at actor Manoj Pahwas uncletype with a mask on mdash because he suffered from a heightened sense of smell mdash in Rajat Kapoors nicely done very Woody Allenish film Kadakh that dropped on SonyLiv recentlyWatch Breathe Into the shadows TrailerThe same with the hero in Breathe Into The Shadows More than once he shows up in an N95 mdash that term most of us would not have heard of until March 2020 Whats he up to Well this is a suspensedrama so Im not going to spoil it for you discussing anything at great lengthThe lead actor is credited on screen as Abhishek A Bachchan mdash assuming A for father Amitabh Bachchan of course being grandfathers penname Bollywood star for 20 years Bachchan has a killer part here Not wholly surprised that he picked this stellar role for his debut in a seriesExcept in a substandard script mdash that could do with multiple reworks even on paper let alone sharper reedits on screen never too late Sure there are momentsportions here that make you go Youre kidding meBut less so for the repeated elements of anticipation created with background score in a constant crescendo mdash leading up to supposed surprise after surprise More so for multiple leaps of faith where you also wonder No shit mdash seriouslyThis sequel on the face of it seems more complicated than the first And is way betterlooking in terms of locations camerawork etc Whats thematically common between Breathe 1 and 2 besides the genre And Amit Sadh Hrishikesh Joshi who replay cop assistantThat a child is at the centre of the plot This is quite literally a psychological thriller Bachchan plays a psychiatrist His character goes through three ages in the timeline with none looking like each other His kids been kidnapped For ransom are a series of instructions for the father to commit a crime and save the childWhat follows is the leading man on the move mdash perennially brooding introspective thinking something really hard and deep and Im not sure what mdash besides planning and executing murder like a promastermind rather than a practicing docThere is the overarching thought of the mythological Raavan hovering somewhere Unsure if worth reading much into it visagravevis Bachchan in Mani Ratnams Raavan 2010 Or that theres a wheelchair bound female secondlead here Prabita Borthakur shes adorable much like Vidya Balan in Ratnams another Bachchan starrer Guru 2007Honestly all of this sounds rather good to me as it does to you Theres also much to admire about the performances I mean really whats there not to love about Sadh totally buffed up as a saandh bull for the sequel the absolutely natural Nithya Menen as Bachchans wife the two potbellied junior inspectors Joshi Shrikant Verma from Bombay and Delhi doing the tiring BOMDEL debateHeres what I also knew before I got here That this show has some serious twists worth looking out for and that would hit you really hard The content boss at Amazon Prime Video told me this This is an Amazon Original Of course Im gonna take that with a sack of saltYet the foreboding of a twist untold is not the same for a film where the eventual payoff is hardly a couple of hours away As against a show such as this that goes on for 12x45 frickin minutes Cant even do the math What is that Seem to have spent more than a full day tilting worklife balance to marinate over what couldve easily been compressed into a fourhour miniseries MaxThe clicheacute taut remains still the best compliment to pay a masalaentertaining thriller that works for you This is anything but Couldve had intense depth instead Nope feels more like Breathe Into The Shallow And there is so much breathing space between a subplot and the next twistturn that you could make a whole new movie in the airfield left open stillHas that impatience also got something to do with watching content during times of Corona when nothing in your own lifes interior scenes move at all There is no external life anyway At some point I just held my phone and started walking around with this show to somehow keep myself engaged Too slow bro Feel wellexercised though PhewCatch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest news