Aarya Is Brilliant And Sushmita Sen Is Amazing
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By Sunil Garodia
First publised on 2020-06-22 16:36:40
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With family and relationships as the main strength, Aarya is a fast-paced crime thriller that documents how a family is hell-bent on protecting its legal/illegal pharmaceuticals business while a mother is equally determined to protect her children from being sucked into the machinations of both insiders and outsiders. It excels in showing all characters in various shades and never lets the viewer become judgmental. It is business, after all, and all is fair in love, war and boardrooms.
Designed as a woman-centric story, it is an ideal comeback vehicle for the amazing Sushmita Sen. She puts in a power-packed performance that will leave you enthralled as she delves deep into the world of crime and criminals to protect her family. Left in a web of intrigue, stalked by a determined Narcotics ACP and having to deal with financial problems left unattended by her murdered husband Tej (Chandrachur Singh in an impressive comeback), Aarya gathers her wits and accepts the challenge, hesitatingly at first and then with aplomb. She tries to unravel the mystery behind her husband's murder and get a grip on the business he used to run with her brother and a friend as her children's ( played with amazing ease by Viren Vazirani, Virti Vaghani and Pratyaksh Panwar) well-being and future depends on how she deals with the ugly situation.
She is confronted by drug lord Shekhawat (played brilliantly by Manish Choudhary) who claims that the three partners had stolen a consignment of heroin worth Rs 300 crore and she needs to pay him back her share of Rs 100 crore. ACP Khan is after her to lay his hands on a pen drive which he claims her husband had promised to give him before he died. The pen drive contains all information about the illegal business and deals of the company. Aarya accidentally finds the pen drive in her husband's clothes returned by the hospital. In it, she finds a video her husband had made for her and gets to know about the grey side of the business they run.
Aarya has to contend with her brother Sangram (Ankur Bhatia) who lies to her that it was Tej's idea to steal Sekhawat's heroin. She has to deal with her father who loves her so much that he can do anything to keep her with him. She has to deal with the cocaine-snorting friend-cum-partner Jawahar (another superb act by Namit Das) who cannot be trusted. She has to deal with the trauma faced by young Adi who saw his father being shot and wets his pants whenever the nightmare returns. Above all, she has to deal with a rebellious daughter who loved her father very much and thinks that Aarya is doing nothing to trace his killers. All this when her life is made hell by a demanding Shekhawat and a persistent ACP Khan who thinks she has joined hands with Shekhawat and is now a drug dealer. She only has her wits and a silent Daulat (Sikander Kher, looking every inch the warrior Rajput), her father's man Friday who asks her to take out her claws even as he protects her back.
The way Aarya takes decisions to protect her family while trying to get out of the mess makes for a wonderful and immensely watchable series. The small moments, which are but asides, make the series interesting. Like when the company accountant who visits her home after Tej's murder gives a toffee to her teenage daughter or when Aarya prescribes a home remedy for a child suffering colic pain when she goes to collect the "black" money stashed with a keeper or when the goon holding her daughter captive goes to buy sanitary napkins for her. Aarya defines her compulsion in doing what she is doing when she tells ACP Khan that "kabhi kabhi baat sahi aur galat ki nahin, galat aur kum galat ki hoti hai." When confronted with all the wrong choices, like Aarya is, one has to make decisions based on what is less wrong among the alternatives. Aarya does that well and protects her family. The climax is going to surprise you and the anti-climax opens up the window for another season. Don't miss this racy thriller now streaming on Disney-Hotstar.
