Shrikant Bashir is an Indian Hindi Crime Thriller series directed by Santosh Shetty. It stars Gashmeer Mahajani, Yudhishtir Singh, Pooja Gor, Ashmita Jaggi, Imran Javed, Kunal Pant, and Mantra in main roles. It has a total of 26 episodes and was released on 11th December 2020 on Sony LIV.
The story revolves around a special force team, SOT (Surgical Operations Team) with Anthony D'Costa (Major Bikramjeet Singh), an ex CBI intelligence officer who's now the chief of SOT. Bashir Khan (Yudhistir Singh) is the senior officer of SOT and the team has to catch Abrar Khagoshi (Ajit Shidhaye) and Samarullah Khan (Saher Singh) who is known as the left hand of the head of Lashkar-e-Badr, a terrorist organization located in POK, and now has come to Mumbai, India to make a deal for the Chandipur Missile installation codes.
In that mission, Abrar dies but the chief is also shot dead. Now enters Shrikant (Gashmeer Mahajani), a suspended SOT officer, and has to take the responsibility as the new chief, temporarily. Due to this, there is a bittersweet bond between Shrikant and Bashir. Next, they have to deal with a bank scam, then they've to stop a pharmaceutical company CEO to stop spreading the Ebola virus in Mumbai and many more cases and simultaneously we see the bond and relationship between the SOT officers and a look in their personal lives.
The story, screenplay, dialogues are by Shiraz Ahmed. If we talk about the plot, this is trending nowadays. Every other series has a special training team and when the team realizes that something big and bad is going to happen they get themselves involved in the investigation of the case and search for criminals. Members of this team also have a lot of movement in their life and they do not trust each other but towards the end, they start trusting each other and everything gets better. Can you recollect how many times have you seen this kind of foundation for any crime thriller series or movies? Many and more to come.
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The show has a strong resemblance to the Indian serial CID, who had to solve new cases every week and the same formula has been used here. Besides the fact that here they're dealing with huge threats of country and world level. This could have easily worked if the series was made only of 10 episodes rather than throwing all the 26 episodes at once which almost tests your patience.
None of the characters have any depth or detailing and you'll not even know who they're as human beings and about their nature as nothing is shown depicting their emotional angles and unapologetically follows the same monotonous path of solving the threats which almost become a punishment for the audience.
The makers seem very serious about the series and are repeatedly serving the audiences the same sequence and the same scene. There are drama and melodrama in everything. It feels to me that the actors are playing among themselves instead of doing a lot. One can easily understand as soon as watching the first episode of the series is exactly like watching CID on TV.
Gashmeer Mahajani as Shrikant Mhatre is enthusiastic and fits with his role whereas Yushishtir Singh as Bashir Khan is also good. And the rest of them have done a fine job. Besides being humdrum and the lack of variation in the storyline, the actors did a fine job to their roles despite none of the characters comes out as effective. The cinematography by Srinivas Ramaiah is good in some parts. The production design by Kunal Bardhan is good and the background score by Sandeep Batraa fails to deliver the action scenes and adrenaline rush sequences with the required intensity. It's not fully his mistake though.
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Shrikant Bashir is a long tiring journey of 13 Hours. With its monotony and repetitiveness in the plot doesn't engage you and the grip gradually starts to lose after the first episode with its daily soap touch and no newness. Everyone has their point of view of a film or series. Some films might look good to someone and bad to others. This is strictly for those who like Suspense thriller, action, drama, and national security-related content and has that stability and strength to sit through this tiring series. It took me seven days to complete, phew!!!!
Rating:- 1/5
Now Streaming on Sony LIV.
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