Solid: Tejasswi Prakash, Ravi Kishan, Anud Singh Dhaka
Director: Ajay Bhuyan
Streaming On: Amazon MX Player
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 6 episodes of fifty minutes each
If you happen to ever wondered what happens once you pick a pulp fiction from the 90s and put a gangster world of the 2010s around it, sprinkle it with some illogical testosterone-charged gundas, and also you get Psycho Saiyaan. It’s an online series that tries so hard to be a psychological thriller that it actually finally ends up giving the audience a posh and a headache for me!
Directed by Ajay Bhuyan, the show is a love story between Kartik Pandey (Anud Singh Dhaka), and Charulata (Tejasswi Prakash). Charu – probably the most wanted woman in Katni, visits Ujjain and bumps into Kartik, a number of years younger to her. They fall in love, but Charu ghosts Kartik, telling him that this love story cannot find its ceaselessly! Enters Ravi Kishan because the gangster Huntry, who’s the master of Charulata and treats her as his s*x toy! Bizarre right? Wait, it has just began!
Psycho Saiyaan Review: What’s It About:
From the very first episode, this show makes nonsensical twists and turns, that are lame and don’t require a script to be honest! They only make no sense! The essential point of this series is that love makes you do crazy things! But each character on this web series is so silly and morally lame that you simply root for none! At one point, I seriously wanted all of them to leap into some well and end this stupidity without delay and for all!
Psycho Saiyaan Review: What Works:
The show attempts to deconstruct the obsessive lover trope of Bollywood, but while the narrative is simply too faltered to even begin with, the show only works due to its actors!
Psycho Saiyaan Review: Star Performance:
Tejasswi Prakash enters the OTT world looking like one million bucks but acting like she is confused as much because the script! She plays Charu, the prettiest girl in Katni, a town in Madhya Pradesh. She is the trophy everyone wants. Tejasswi actually tries to offer this paper-thin character some soul. She cries well, she fears well, and he or she stares into the gap with more depth than your entire plot. It’s high time the digital space gives her a script that doesn’t treat her like a damsel in distress who just happens to be within the script for crying and glamorous crying!
Then comes Ravi Kishan. God bless this man. He walks into the frame as Huntry Chauhan with the energy of a person who knows the show is a large number and has decided to have the time of his life anyway. He’s loud, he’s menacing, and he’s the one reason you let this web series reach its end. He plays the gangster with such unapologetic vibes that he almost makes the illogical dialogues sound like a poem. I mean almost!
Psycho Saiyaan Review: What Doesn’t Work:
As Kartik Pandey, Anud Singh Dhaka is tasked with navigating a personality arc that moves from a destiny-obsessed romantic soul to a full-blown toxic stalker. Unfortunately, the performance gets stuck in a middle ground that’s more irritating than intimidating, for obviously, no fault of his! Within the initial episodes, Dhaka portrays Kartik’s poetic sensibilities with a sincerity that feels dated. But this destiny-driven lover lacks the obligatory charm to make the audience root for him.
The issue with this show isn’t the actors; it’s that the show asks us to consider in a world where everyone seems to be a psycho, but no person has a therapist. The chemistry is less about sparks and more about Why is that this even happening, and What crazy nonsensical world that is.
This one is a more problematic Raanjhana, mixed with a really light version of Hasseen Dillruba entering the pulp-fiction novel genre, but not making any effort to decode how pulp fiction works!
Psycho Saiyaan Review: Last Words:
Watch it when you’re a die-hard Tejasswi fan or if you ought to see Ravi Kishan‘s masterclass in how you can carry a sinking ship. Otherwise, thank me 1000 times that I told you to run away from this one, as fast as you may!
0.5 stars!
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