Brinda Cast: Trisha Krishnan, Indrajith Sukumaran, Jaya Prakash, Aamani, Ravindra Vijay, Anand Sami, Rakendu Mouli
Crew:
Music Director: Shakthi Kanth Karthick
Cinematographer: Dinesh K Babu
Editor: Anwar Ali
Director : Surya Manoj Vangala
Producer : Kolla Ashish
OTT Platform: Sony LIV
No: of Episodes: 08
Genre: Crime Thriller, Investigative thriller
Language: Telugu
Brinda Web Series Rating: 2.5/5
Trisha Krishnan has found resurgence or second coming in film industry as a sought after leading lady in recent times. She agreed to be part of Brinda, a web-series trying out a completely new medium for her with this one. Surya Manoj Vangala, a telugu director convinced her to play a cop and came up with an interesting premise. Trisha trying to take on a complete action subject for her debut on OTT, brought huge buzz to this one. Let’ discuss about Brinda web-series in length, further.
Coming to plot, the series follows an excellent cop, Brinda(Trisha Krishnan) investigating a suicide. She unveils the secrets behind a murder being treated as a suicide and her instincts prove to be true. A very driven police officer, Sarathy(Ravindra Vijay) joins her in the investigation. She starts to unveil a crime nexus who are targeting religious events and devotees to make a statement. What is the statement this extremist group wants to make? How will Brinda unveil these mysteries behind random destructive murders? Watch the series to know more.
Trisha Krishnan delivered a very believable performance. Being trouted as a damsel in distress for a long time, she could easily migrate into an action avatar as a cop. She pulled off the stunts like a pro and even her performance in investigation scenes works. She has been on point in connecting us with her character as far as the script she is offered. Ravindra Vijay and Indrajith Sukumaran have been offered very meaty roles and they delivered their best. All others did their best too.
Production values in Brinda and technical aspects like cinematography and music are good. The technicians behind these crafts have well appreciated the vision of the director. Anwar Ali, the editor, could have been a little bit more adventurous in such a thriller. The pattern did not look very effective. Surya Manoj, the young writer-director, brought a new premise to Telugu OTT space. Bringing an extremist group who are atheists and who want to attack blind beliefs is novel.
But then the kind of characters this premise needed and conviction seemed missing. When we are talking about atheist vs believers and add murder mystery to it, the screenplay needs to be more gripping. The characters need to hook you to every detail. Brinda fails in keeping us hooked in the mid-season episodes as they become too long and have filler quality. The meat of the story has been explored well in first episode and last two episodes. Had the writing been similarly tight throughout, it could have been even better. Still, it ends up being a one-time watch.
Positives:
Novel Premise
Trisha Krishnan’s strong performance
Ensemble cast performances
BGM in several important scenes
First and Last episode
Negatives:
Writing could’ve been tighter
Predictable at places
Draggy Narrative
Slow and Too Long for the material
Trisha’s Brinda Web-Series Bottom-line: A one-time watch at best
