Himmat Singh Is Back & Better Than Ever, In Special Ops S2.
Special Ops Season 2: Himmat Singh Reports For A Satisfying Encore
| Season 2 of Neeraj Pandey’s espionage series deepens Kay Kay Menon’s imprint on the long list of streaming’s troubled patriots, writes Manik Sharma .
| | | | | Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Karan Tacker, Prakash Raj | | | | INDIA'S premier AI scientist is kidnapped from a conference halfway around the world. One of its leading intelligence operatives is shot dead in the middle of the national capital. A bank has gone bust, time is running out, and institutions bump into each other as bureaucracy takes the shape of a high-stakes battle of tic-tac-toe. One axis anchors the chaos, the hysteria, the chase and the unravelling of a global mission — Himmat Singh. The return of Kay Kay Menon as the celebrated intelligence officer is a testament to the sublimity of performance. The fact that adrenaline need not be punched into the grammar of a story, but that it can be casually laid down as the guiding light of a narrative. If handed to the right torchbearer. Stream the latest films and shows with an OTTplay Premium Power Play pack, now for Rs 149 per month. Grab your offer now! Season two of Special Ops , which arrived after a vacuum-filling mini-series about Singh’s origin story, wants to go big and bold. It is preset to the tropes of AI, cyber warfare and the digital tools that are now capable of destroying nations from the dim rooms of hostel-residing hackers. “It’s not intelligence, it’s decisions”, a senior officer bemoans at one point, to sort of push back on the keel of digital dystopia. Wars have shifted online, but the decisions are still made inside the heads of men. It’s these men who decide where power resides, how it functions, and, should it require, become the stroke of fate. It’s where men like Himmat Singh become both myth and matter. The surreal, unquantifiable blobs of energy that power nations from the hinge of something intangible yet essential — responsibility. | | | Mohit Suri captures the feeling of sinking in love through the musicality of a heartbreak. Ishita Sengupta reviews.
| | | | | Cast: Ahaan Panday, Aneet Padda | | | | GREAT LOVES look ordinary in close-ups. A man having black coffee because someone he loved liked it; a woman keeping the other side of her bed empty for days. A boy abandoning his future to take care of someone he loves; a girl refusing care to protect the person she loves. These are familiar stories of regular people, more common than one imagines. But there is greatness still, less in the falling and more in the telling, and few filmmakers do it like Mohit Suri . Psst! Watch Mohit Suri's best films on OTTplay Premium. This is not to say that he has always been successful. If anything, the opposite is true. Suri’s filmography is dotted with variations of a similar kind of love story, and in the last couple of years, the balance has been scattered. It has been either too bizarre ( Ek Villain Returns ), too outlandish ( Half Girlfriend ) or too morose ( Hamari Adhuri Kahani ). Individually, these are peak attributes of a Mohit Suri film, and yet it took a while (more than a decade since Aashiqui 2 ) for things to fall into place, and then — rejoice! With Saiyaara, his latest take on doomed love, the filmmaker goes the whole hog. He brings back the sentimentalism of young love and pairs it with the sobering selflessness of time. He puts his finger on the crushing urgency of youth and validates it by executing a tragedy in the future. More crucially, Suri captures the feeling of sinking in love through the musicality of a heartbreak, and it has been a while since a Hindi film let itself fall. | | | The one newsletter you need to decide what to watch on any given day. Our editors pick a show, movie, or theme for you from everything that’s streaming on OTT. | | Each week, our editors pick one long-form, writerly piece that they think is worthy of your attention, and dice it into easily digestible bits for you to mull over. | | In which we invite a scholar of cinema, devotee of the moving image, to write a prose poem dedicated to their poison of choice. Expect to spend an hour on this. | | | Hindustan Media Ventures Limited,
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