Voot Select

Episodes 8

*ing: Saqib Saleem, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Iqbal Khan and others

Rated: 8/10

Apoorva Lakhia has shrunk from the big screen to tube space, from multiplexes to OTT, much too smoothly to not raise an eyebrow or two. 

Having said that, the web series that he has directed, Crackdown, brings in it, explosive energy, slick pace and of course the ability to withstand and negate in style any possibility of being fathomed, till the very end.

That’s what makes this slickly put together anti-terror spy story worth the time you would spend with it, on it. Lakhia skillfully pursues the goal of making his viewers susceptible to binge watching and then audaciously walks away with an ending that’s abrupt, killing and fodder for another season chant without losing much time.

Without letting out any spoilers, the story pursues a covert operation and operators within RAandW to take down terrorati in general and terror cells in particular. Taking down terror cells, as it turns out, becomes like a walk into the beehive with plot after plot springing up to taunt the hero in pursuit. Saqeeb, by the way, manages the operation with a no nonsense approach that leaves no time for the viewer to dwell on anything else than the job at hand. That gives the series a pinpoint focus and narrows down avenues to stray into emotions other than the one which gives them constant palpitation and anticipation.

Lakhia, please do zoom into Season 2 just like the way you took us through Season 1.... with no time lost, with no bilaterals, with no dilly dallying. After all, you have sent the benchmark for this much anticipated second part.