oppn parties Garmi: Tigmanshu Dhulia In Familiar Zone

Story Of The Day

As The Captain Promised, Indian Women Win The Hockey Gold

October 04, 2026

People Are Talking About

People Are Talking About Junk Food Near Schools

News Snippets

  • Congress spokesperson Reetam Singh has claimed that Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka refused to meet Congress leaders during his recent Assam visit. He alleged that the group was told to stay away because its outreach was "an Aam Aadmi Party initiative"
  • Indian Railways is undertaking a major expansion of the Guwahati rail network, including new lines, the second Saraighat Bridge, station redevelopment and a Mega Coaching Complex. The projects are intended to improve connectivity, passenger facilities and train operations across the Northeast
  • 150 people were arrested in Delhi as the CJP protest over the resignation of CEC Gynaesh Kumar entered the second day
  • The Centre ordered all AGMUT cadre segments to report within 48 hours any FIR, arrest, adverse court order or investigative action involving IAS, IPS, DANICS and DANIPS officers. The move follows concerns over delays in reporting investigations by agencies including the CBI, ED and anti-corruption bodies
  • India brought back alleged international narco-trafficking kingpin Navpreet Singh from Türkiye, where he had allegedly obtained citizenship under the false identity Navab Virk. Home Minister Amit Shah said Singh was accused of running heroin and methamphetamine trafficking routes from Afghanistan into India
  • Jack Dorsey’s decentralised messaging application Bitchat disappeared from Apple's and Google's app stores in India after Apple said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had ordered its removal under Section 69A of the IT Act. The app's website was also inaccessible through several Indian internet providers
  • The RBI reiterated its cautious stance on private cryptocurrencies, while backing the underlying technologies such as distributed ledgers and tokenisation. Governor Sanjay Malhotra said central-bank digital currencies could offer an alternative for improving cross-border payments
  • Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India must continue building economic resilience amid global uncertainty, highlighting strategic-resource security, diversified supply chains, skills and domestic capabilities in critical minerals, rare earths, semiconductors and small modular reactors. She was speaking at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi
  • RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra warned that a slowdown in the global AI investment cycle could trigger sharp repricing of financial assets, while saying any correction in elevated AI valuations in advanced economies could potentially redirect capital towards India. He also identified cyber risk as a major financial-stability concern arising from increasingly sophisticated AI
  • India lost 4-0 to Brazil in the historic international friendly at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium, with Estevao, Pedro and Samuel Lino, who scored twice, finding the net. The match was Brazil’s first senior men’s international on Indian soil
  • Seventeen-year-old Kumkum Mohod won India’s first women’s individual recurve gold at the Asian Games, beating South Korea’s Oh Yejin in a shoot-off. The victory also secured an Olympic quota place for India for the 2028 Los Angeles Games
  • Pranavi Urs became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games golf gold, finishing one stroke ahead of China’s Yin Ruoning at 15-under 265. India also took silver in the women’s team event
  • Wrestler Aman Sehrawat won the men’s 57kg freestyle gold, defeating reigning world champion Han Chong Song of North Korea 11-7 after recovering from a 7-6 deficit late in the bout
  • India’s men’s hockey team retained the Asian Games gold, defeating Malaysia 5-1 in the final. The victory also secured India a place in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
  • India retained the Asian Games men’s T20 cricket title, beating Pakistan by 19 runs in the final. Abhishek Sharma’s 61 off 28 balls and Tilak Varma’s unbeaten 51 off 22 helped India post 211/6 before Pakistan finished on 192/6
Asian Games: October 3 gold medallists: Kumkum Mohod (Archery), Pranavi Urs (Golf), Aman Sehrawat (Wrestling), India men’s cricket team (Cricket), and India men’s hockey team (Hockey) /////// India finishes its campaign in 4th position in the Asian Games medal table: 21 gold, 27 silver, 37 bronze; 85 medals.
oppn parties
Garmi: Tigmanshu Dhulia In Familiar Zone

By Linus Garg
First publised on 2023-04-30 08:05:24

About the Author

Sunil Garodia Linus tackles things head-on. He takes sides in his analysis and it fits excellently with our editorial policy. No 'maybe's' and 'allegedly' for him, only things in black and white.

Tigmanshu Dhulia (Haasil - 2003) is famous for dealing with the complex subject of student politics in universities, with its underlying casteist overtones, in the Hindi heartland. He once again explores the subject in Garmi Season 1 (streaming on Sony Liv) in nine episodes of 35 minutes each, with the promise of advanced politics and increased rivalry in season 2. Dhulia takes on largely unknown faces and gives them good screen time to prove their mettle. They do not disappoint and come up with excellent performances in this realistic student politics drama. Although the story is nothing new, Dhulia's take is engaging with the many twists and turns which show how a middle-class student aspiring to clear the UPSC exams gets embroiled in campus politics and how his life changes thereafter.

The story is about Arvind Shukla (Vyom Yadav), a small-town boy in UP who comes to Trivenipur University with dreams of pursuing his MA in political science and clearing the UPSC exams. A chance friendship with someone who he thinks is a fellow student (but who actually is a criminal) is the starting point of the turns his life will take. Bindu Singh (Puneet Singh) and Govind Arya (Anurag Thakur) are the president and vice-president of the student's union on the campus and bitter rivals. Arvind gets friendly with Bindu but very soon finds that he is using him. Arvind falls in love with Surbhi (Disha Thakur) but Bindu catches them in Avinash's room and shames her to the point that she commits suicide by jumping off the terrace. Arvind seeks revenge and shoots Bindu who does not die but goes into coma.

Arvind is then sucked into the world of student politics which takes him to jail, brings him into direct conflict with the crooked policeman Mrityunjay Singh (played by Jatin Goswami, who wants the Rajputs to rule the nation), gets him support from Bairagi Baba (Vineet Kumar) and the local businessman who finances campus politics. Along the way, Arvind makes more enemies and even as he is poised to contest for the post of president in the student's union elections, these enemies are ganging up against him and will go for him in Season 2.

Vyom Yadav is excellent as Arvind.  Puneet Singh and Anurag Thakur are also good as the rival gang leaders. Jatin Goswami shines as the caste-conscious policeman who wants a share in all deals and a say in campus politics. The show, although predictable, is good to watch as Dhulia's direction and the acting lifts it a few notches higher. 

Other Stories You Make Like

Editorials

Written Grounds Are The Price Of An Arrest

Written Grounds Are The Price Of An Arrest

 7.8% GDP Growth Is Good News.

7.8% GDP Growth Is Good News.

In Depth

Grounds Of Arrest: The Supreme Court's Rule Must Be Followed By The Police On The Ground

Grounds Of Arrest: The Supreme Court's Rule Must Be Followed By The Police On The Ground

Editor's Pick

For the Goonj to Reverberate, Rahul Gandhi Must Take Regional Parties Along

For the Goonj to Reverberate, Rahul Gandhi Must Take Regional Parties Along
© 2014 India Commentary. All rights reserved.