Abhay 3 Review: Kunal Kemmu Sails Through Gruesome Season With Effortless Ease

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Abhay 3 Review: The lead actor faces stiff competition in the form of the redoubtable Vijay Raaz, cast as a sociopath who unleashes terror in Lucknow and Delhi.

Abhay Season 3, produced by Zee Studios and directed by Ken Ghosh, is all gruesome, grim, ghoulish and more. The eight-part crime thriller ratchets up the intensity of the jobs assigned to Special Task Force police officer Abhay Pratap Singh, played with admirable composure by Kunal Kemmu. The story, despite the many deviations that the invincible cop is forced into in the line of duty and as a single father to a troubled pre-teen boy, is compelling enough not to lapse into an overly-plotted grind. We already know what the super cop is capable of – he is always a step ahead of the twisted criminal minds he is charged with taming.

There is much more than just crime that Abhay is now required to crack down on. His own life is a mess and his past is about to slow him down because he cannot get the setbacks that he has suffered off his mind. In his third coming, Abhay Pratap Singh, is both the hunter and the hunted, which makes him more intriguing than ever.

The women in Abhay 3, barring policewoman Khusboo (Nidhi Singh), have little to do. The journalist played by Asha Negi is relegated to relative insignificance and Elnaaz Norouzi’s character, Officer Natasha, now dead and gone, surfaces only in the hero’s recurring nightmares. One of criminals Abhay confronts is a woman but she vanishes from the scene early in the plot.

The narrative takes a bit of time to get the initial skirmishes, which include the capture of a suspected serial killer from the man’s own wedding procession, out of the way. Once the tale, nimble if not exactly quicksilver, gathers the requisite pace and power, it makes its way forward at a reasonable clip. The titular Lucknow cop, who stops at nothing in his attempts to outwit the dangerous criminals that he takes on, returns to battle psychopaths, serial killers, a feral creature on the rampage, and an enigmatic cult leader who hates the cycle of life and death that mankind is trapped in and holds out to his unquestioning flock the promise of a false dawn.

The personal and the professional intermingle as Abhay turns his attention to five unsolved highway murder cases only to find himself drawn into a direct confrontation with a mysterious force unlike any he has encountered before. In one particular case of homicide investigated by junior police officer Khusboo (Nidhi Singh), Abhay himself is a suspect. His son, Saahil (Pratyaksh Panwar), a boy gripped by dark thoughts in a boarding school where nothing goes right for him, is pulled in an uncertain and fraught direction. The third season of the crime series, written by Sudhanshu Sharma, Deepak Das, Shrinivas Abrol and Shubham Sharma, like the past two, is Kunal Kemmu’s show. He sails through with effortless ease, carving out a brooding sleuth who is haunted by his past as much as he is hobbled by his propensity to resort to extra-legal means, whenever necessary, to get his job done.


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