A tale of two city-spies
Updated On: 25 September, 2019 05:44 AM IST | | Mayank Shekhar
Two desi espionage-thrillers; almost simultaneously dropping on Amazon, Netflix; 12-plus hours of back-to-back binge... And?

(Left) Emraan Hashmi in a still from the Netflix show, Bard Of Blood; Manoj Bajpayee in the Amazon Prime show, Family Man
From an optics point of view, a family man, as it were, shakily performing a work-life balancing-act — 'kaam ke bojh ka maara' type — is obviously the polar opposite of Super/Spiderman sorta super-hero.
The latter in turn have their own human alter-egos as well — with journalism as their day-jobs, in both cases — to contrast with their larger mission of saving the world, no less.
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