The Hoichoi series Mohanagar by Ashfaque Nipun spins around events that occur more than seven hours inside a Dhaka police headquarters one evening. The eight-episode show not just effectively reproduces an ongoing unfurling of these events yet, in addition, keeps the crowd stuck to the screen on account of solid performances, baffling turns, and elegantly composed and engaging dialogues. As the series starts, the audience is introduced with OC Harun (Mosharraf Karim), a cop who easily controls crime locations to his own advantages, while sub-monitor Moloy Kumar (Mostafizur Noor Imran), Harun's obedient though moronic junior, is puzzled by his prevalent's techniques, particularly on account of a been blamed for intruding.
As the series gradually uncovered the defects in the system, Afnan Chowdhury (Shamol Mawla), the son of a great powerful industrialist, gets gotten by the police in a quick in and out case. Regardless of whether it's anything but a mishap or a murder stays a secret as the crime location is introduced according to alternate points of view at different focuses while keeping the crowd in ambiguity directly until the end. Mohanagar (means 'huge city') flaunts a grasping story that focuses on the profound established defilement in the police hardware. However the story is set in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, it would remain constant if it was set in any underdeveloped nation, all the more explicitly, any South Asian country like our own.
The story of Mohanagar isn't the common edge-of-the-seat exciting, yet develops on the watcher as the scenes pass, and keeps you connected with till the end. The underlying scenes are a drag, set apart by tedious groupings and pointless flashbacks. The greater part of the runtime is squandered on showing different characters smoking or walking drowsily in the halls of the police headquarters.
The remainder of it is taken up by bothering flashbacks of the meeting that occurred the evening of the hit and run. Why Afnan continues to think back about the meeting is outside our ability to comprehend. It would've been exceptional had the writer and director shown the whole happenings at the party in one go, instead of returning to it at regular intervals in the narrative. Something else that bothers about Mohanagar is the sketchy personality development of the various characters in the story. Each character is inadequately scratched out and immature, leaving us uninvested and uninvolved in their struggles.
The screenplay is likewise hampered to some degree by the flighty way of narrating. One moment, the ACP orders the police clinical group to lead a blood liquor test on Afnan; the following moment, she requests that he leave, blood test forgot totally. Notwithstanding being the ACP, she thinks nothing about Abir being unjustly held in the prison for the crime he didn't perpetrate. Another scene is similarly surprising. Afnan's dad Alamgir Chowdhury haphazardly discloses to him that he should stay inside the police headquarters as of now, since Rizwan's men are holding up outside, and they will not leave him. Rizwan, whoever he is, is essentially referenced suddenly. At no time in the series is he at any point referenced previously.
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The drowsy, whimsical narrating in a real sense causes Mohanagar to feel like a lethargic, draggy issue until the initial five episodes. The short 20-minutes-per-episode runtime is the redeeming quality of the principal half of the show. Notwithstanding, the screenplay gets interesting towards the finish of the fifth episode, and continues at a quick clasp from that point on. The last three episodes are in this manner the best of the series. Strangely, the whole collection of events in the story happens in a single evening. There's even a twist toward the end, leaving the show open for a season 2.
Mosharraf Karim is splendid in the job of the ethically broke Officer Harun. He passes on the naughtiness and arrogance of the person immaculately, letting his poker-confronted manifestations and slow non-verbal communication communicate everything. Mostafizur Noor Imran has a capturing screen presence. He depicts the sincere nonetheless vulnerable Moloy Kumar with rehearsed flawlessness.
Zakia Bari Mamo lends validity to her part of ACP Shahana Huda. She figures out how to rescue the terribly composed personality with a controlled presentation. Shamol Mawla is given well a role as the wanton, foolish, hot-headed Afnan. Khairul Basar plays his Abir well, consummately passing on the shell-stunned response to the awful new development in his life.
Overall, Mohanager is a one-time watch.
Rating:- 3/5
Now streaming on Hoichoi.
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