Mr Kolketa Review: This mystery-drama series, directed by Surajit Chatterjee, stars Ritwick Chakraborty, Rajnandini Paul, Kaushik Sen, Debesh Roy Chowdhury, Kaushik Chatterjee, Ayush Mukherjee and others. The series has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of around 25 minutes.
Mr Kolketa Plot
When a piece of muslin seeped in Bengal’s history goes missing, and a man is murdered, Kolke, Jhelum and Kolke’s nephew Potai go on a dangerous adventure to find out the truth behind the cloth that ties everyone’s fates together. However, on this journey, they face dangerous obstructions and people who will stop at nothing to take everything from them and stop them at every turn.
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Mr Kolketa Review
Throughout the runtime of Mr Kolketa, you are left to wonder whether the protagonist you are following is an adult or a child; although Chakraborty playing eccentric characters isn’t anything new, the fact that this government employee literally never goes to work should be a red flag to all the people of West Bengal who had to sit at the municipality office to get to know about their mutation status.
After that triggering first episode, viewers would be subjected to even more oddities that feel a bit childish and very confusing. The thing with Mr Kolketa is that it desperately tries to be an adult show, but honestly, it’s better off being catered to youngsters. Kids will have a swell time with this series that is too disjointed to be interesting to adults. Stuff happens throughout that is neither interesting nor very challenging, considering the level of shows that we have come to watch these days.
Thus, searching for a muslin coat and uncovering clues just feels like an early 2000 thing wherein people were a bit more innocent, and life was simpler. Honestly, this series could’ve been an ode to shows like that as well, but weirdly enough, it’s not arresting at all and leaves you feeling rather indifferent about what is going on. I think that’s the saddest part of watching anything – an extreme reaction towards a piece of media probably makes it a better watch than just being something that you’d forget the moment it is over. At least the really bad ones are good for a hate-watch.
One of the other problems with Mr Kolketa is that the characters themselves aren’t interesting. Kolke is a childish eccentric “genius” who loves history and harasses people by not going to work, and apparently, we are expected to be okay with this. Jhelum breaks out in English whenever she is confused or frustrated, which is fine, but she’s far too hot-headed and doesn’t think of the consequences of screaming at everything and everyone. And then there is Kaushik Sen, who has apparently given up being the good guy in web shows and is always scheming and trying to murder people. How absurd.
Apart from the absurd wet sock characters, the storyline feels like someone blew a big wet raspberry on our faces and left us with no alternative but to sit there and take it. It’s very silly to watch this mystery open up, with Jimut Basak pushing people around constantly, going down known, boring routes and trying to solve a puzzle that no one is interested in. The fact that the series doesn’t even try to reinvent itself and simply is a cookie-cutter version of shows that we have watched a thousand times previously probably says a lot about the makers and what they think of their audiences.
Mr Kolketa Review: Final Thoughts
As mentioned previously, shows that make you feel indifferent are probably the worst of the lot. They neither arouse excitement nor anger and simply make you bored. Feeling bored for 6 episodes is a sin that no one should commit, and in spite of having good actors, Mr Kolketa is easily forgettable – don’t worry, it will come quite naturally the moment you turn your TV off.
Mr Kolketa is streaming on Hoichoi.
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