Odrisshyo Review: Directed by Shafayet Mansoor Rana, who is also responsible for the story and screenplay, this drama-mystery TV series, produced by Shahriar Shakil, stars Mahfuz Ahmed, Aupee Karim, Nishat Priom, Shahdat Hossain, Shampa Reza, Sheikh Partho, Sumon Anowar and others. The series has 5 episodes, each with a runtime of around 25 minutes.
Odrisshyo Plot
When successful businessman Anis gets kidnapped in the middle of a political campaign, things start to go haywire. As he grapples with the possibility that he may or may not get out of his current predicament, those around him also rush to find out his whereabouts. However, the abduction has much more happening in the background than he could’ve imagined – betrayals, backstabbing, blackmail and the dysfunction of his own personal life rearing its ugly head. Will Anis be able to get out of the kidnapping and unmask his abductors?
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Odrisshyo Review
Odrisshyo tries to let us know that there are multiple threads happening together in the background of his kidnapping scene – Anis has multiple people who have beef with him, so anyone can be a suspect. But even from the first episode, you are left to grapple with losing patience and interest in the storyline because, in spite of the twisted plot, it never really gives us anything that feels like a tight watch. It’s so boring to watch the same things happening over and over again; we jump from Anis’s kidnapping incident and incidents from the past that round out his character, but these moments are annoying more than anything else.
The series is also made very weirdly; the cinematography feels wonky, and the acting, other than from the main cast, is horrifying. More often than not, you will be left dumbfounded wherein in a scene, some random unnecessary thing in the background is in focus while the two people talking are out of focus. It’s wild to watch this happen, and you question whether you are the one who is having some sort of issues with your vision! Most of the actors feel so uncomfortable being in the series as if they are being held at gunpoint and made to act.
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Other than that, the dirtiness of the political game and the problem of having a good-for-nothing son is nothing more than annoying. Although the series does deliver some fun twists a few times, it doesn’t manage to subvert any expectations that you have – it’s pretty mid and does nothing to make you feel excited or invested. In order to make you feel shocked, unfortunately, it brings out every possible bad thing that it can conjure up in hopes that something sticks and you are rightfully left amazed.
Newsflash, nothing really feels shocking. It’s predictable, and the flow of the show lags so much that you can’t help but fast-forward down the unnecessary narratives. The series tries to make it seem like everything that is happening is oh-so-serious. But it isn’t, and if anything, every time the series tries to add one more thing, it’s an unnecessary jump in the wrong direction. It introduces storylines that it forgets about often, and you question what happened to this and that as the episodes roll around.
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In the end, the series ends with… nothing. It’s not a cliffhanger or anything because that would require you to be left hanging. It asks several questions, answers none of them and then just ends the episode with nothing happening. It almost feels like the creators closed their eyes and chose a spot in the runtime to call it a day and keep the rest for another season, probably. It’s bizarre watching this show – people make threats, bad guys continue being bad guys, people cheat, and characters intensely stare into the distance, hinting that something unfavourable is happening. But nothing comes out of anything.
My gripe with these two/three-part series these days is that in lieu of giving the answers in upcoming seasons, the shows forget to make the previous seasons watchable. More often than not, we are given half-baked first seasons because the “shocking ending” is coming up in another season a few months later. Unfortunately, the audience’s interest to watch another season goes down the drain when nothing happens in the season that is supposed to reel us in. How bizarre.
Odrisshyo Review: Final Thoughts
There has to be a reason why the first season (or part) of Odrisshyo is left on a non-cliffhanger that invokes no feeling of thrill or interest. Several threads of plot points are strewn all over the place, and none generate any interest in any way. I don’t know what happened while making this series, but it’s a mess that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. If anything, I was left feeling confused if this was some barbarous jape that was being inflicted on the audience.
Odrisshyo is streaming on Hoichoi.