I was waiting for ‘Killer Soup’, my two favorites Manoj Bajpayee and Konkana Sen, together. Could it have gotten better than this? Sadly, the soup was cold, bland and tasteless for me.
Set in a small town, the husband and wife are Swati, who has a dream to run her own restaurant and Prabhakar, who is caught up in a big financial ghapla. His street-smart brother, Arvind, keeps the family budgets and expenses in check. Someone starts to blackmail Prabhakar and when he hires a detective to find the blackmailer, that is, Umesh, his look-alike, the masseuse, plus his wife’s boyfriend, it is all a big SOUP!
Spread over 8 episodes, each of 45-50 minutes long, the supposedly black comedy lacks lustre. Killer Soup has texture and flavour but lacks consistency.
Swati, is herself leading a double life- she wears a burkha most times whether its when she goes to learn to cook or meet her boyfriend. When her boyfriend ie. Umesh, kills her husband in a frenzy, she comes up with the plan of training Umesh who is her husband’s look alike, to become Prabhu. All the plotting and scheming comes naturally to her.
Director Abhishek Chaubey, along with his co-writers and creators Anaiza Merchant, Anant Tripathi and Harshad Nalawade try to build a plot that has the audience in their grip yet the dark comedy fails to humor me. A good story but it needed to be shorter and needed more salt and pepper.
