Thironthoram Dude

A stellar cast, a fluid narrative and no over-the-top Bollywood heroism and lo we have the first India based Netflix  Original that can truly compete with the rest of the world. Before we even go into the details of the series I would like to pause for a moment and express my awe for  Nawazuddin Siddiqui , the true focal point of the entire series.  The series begins with Sartaj Singh ( Saif Ali Khan  ) a honest-downbeat  Mumbai policeman who is going through a rough patch with his peers, superiors and life in whole, getting a call from a notorious gangster Ganesh Gaitonde ( Nawazuddin Siddiqui ) who gets him going on a wild goose chase. Ganesh claims that the country is going to burn in a matter of 25 days and with that he takes his own life. Anjali Mathur ( Radhika Apte ), a RAW analyst chances upon the exchange and joins the hunt with the motive of proving herself as a field agent as well as protecting the country.  Co-directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap the se

When a 16 year old school student Jennifer goes missing, Captain Gasper Decker ( Samuel Labarthe )  and  his team goes about investigating. All that they have as lead is the phone call received by the ever mysterious french teacher Eva Mendel ( Alexia Barlier ) right before the girls disappearance.  The series is entirely in french, but was riveting enough for me to ignore that fact.  It comes with the usual share of mystery, lies and thrill.  The 6 episode series starts pretty strongly with the first two episodes moving the story along at a brisk pace. All the characters are introduced and some of the prime suspects are introduced and nullified in quick succession. The story takes a turn when the missing child ends up dead and that is followed by two more girls going missing. The story, as the title says centers around a forest in the outskirts of the village where there had been instances of kids gone missing decades ago. The series however loses its pace as quickly as it had gai