Andhera Review: An Outlandish Show That Never Makes Sense

Andhera Review: A relentless cop and a haunted medical student start working together to figure out how several people are ending up dead in mysterious ways. The investigation takes them to the depths of a darkness that threatens to consume the city of Mumbai whole.

The series has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of around 45 minutes.

Andhera Review

In Andhera, after a while, you start questioning if the darkness is trying to engulf you as well, and this Prime Video series is the result of it. It’s an oddly obvious fear that you will feel a few episodes into the series, which seems to go too deep into its own lore, resulting in a show that neither makes sense nor is entertaining.

I always mention how it’s important to go all in when it comes to fantasy shows because if the show itself doesn’t believe in its insanity, then there is hardly a chance that the viewers will. However, this completely insane series believes in its lore so much that you question whether reality is even real after a while.

Following a troubled medical student, a hard-hitting detective and a paranormal junkie trying to get to the bottom of the existence of a dark entity that is seemingly taking the lives of Mumbai residents willy-nilly, the series hardly makes sense and is extremely hard to believe, even for a supernatural fiction show. And sure, one might think that we must suspend our disbelief when it comes to fantasy, but there’s a limit there somewhere that seems not to exist for this Prime Video venture.

While I give kudos to the actors, including Karanvir Malhotra, Prajakta Koli, Priya Bapat and Surveen Chawla, who seems to be enjoying playing the villain in every show these days, Andhera is a test of patience and sanity, blurring the line between reality and stupidity to a point that it simply doesn’t exist. Things happen for no reason. We jump from science to folklore and then to clinical depression as if things can just be swapped around if we believe hard enough.

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The twists themselves, too, are just so obvious that it doesn’t even take you by surprise. From one shocking revelation to the next, it’s generic and clichéd, repeating old tropes like its life depends on it. The characters are insufferable and make the stupidest decisions that will make you want to slap someone. The core problem with the show is that it goes a bit too far off the deep end. I love supernatural horrors, and the blending of supernatural with science is an interesting concept, but Andhera is neither. Ending up being just another attempt at doing something completely outlandish and hoping it sticks.

In the end, I will give the series some props for its faint discussion surrounding mental health issues and its attempts at people addressing them in various ways. However, the series clearly tried its hardest to make this as out there as possible to get the most reactions out of viewers, regardless of whether or not they are positive.

Final Thoughts

Andhera on Prime Video is embarrassingly bad and makes no sense. The clunky dialogue, the random plot progression and the annoying and unrealistic characters make you want to tear your hair out as you wait for things to make sense.

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