Sana, who appears to have no answer to or respect for her mother’s probing queries, is asked by a despondent Gunwant, “Will you never forgive your father?” Masoom, a six-part mystery thriller by Mihir Desai and Gurmmeet Singh, is currently streaming on Disney + Hotstar. It is the first OTT project for seasoned actor Boman Irani. But that’s about it; Masoom doesn’t really distinguish out beyond Irani’s breathtaking performance.
This series, which is based on the 2018 Irish serial opera Blood, fails to develop a solid or compelling plot and does not do its talented actor’s credit.
After the passing of her mother Gunwant, Sana Kapoor (Samara Tijori) leaves Delhi and returns (Upasana Singh). Her connection with her father, Balraj Kapoor, appears to be tense and she suffers from neurological issues (Boman Irani). She frequently remembers her father beating up someone, and the entire series shows how terrified she is of him. Sana’s family accuses her of lying about these memories, severing her relationship with them all.
However, what first appears to be a family drama quickly transforms into a murder investigation as Sana makes every effort to show that her mother’s death was the result of a deliberate killing. Samara Tijori, a debutante, falls flat in her role as Sana. She struggles to persuade the audience of her love for her mother or the sorrow that her mother’s passing must have caused despite her troubled history and cynical, fidgety actions. Boman Irani’s widely-accepted adulterous romance with Romi (Sarika Singh) is a lovely complement to this enigmatic story.
Sana’s siblings, Sanjana (Manjari Fadnnis) and Sanjeev, are the other important figures in the program (Veer Rajwant Singh). In this web series, Akashdeep Arora plays Monty, a friend of Sana’s. It is great to see Arora and Singh shed their cartoonish FilterCopy personas in favour of a more sombre and serious appearance, which they both excel at achieving. The writing, on the other hand, is uninspired and lacklustre, undermining the abilities of this fantastic cast by constructing a slow-moving and annoyingly repeated storyline.
Masoom makes an excessive effort to be both a slow-burn psychological thriller and a murder mystery, but it falls short in all categories. Instead of trying to become another Disney+ Hotstar web series that situates itself in the criminal genre, it would have been better as a family-focused drama that discusses grieving and coping with loss. It appears that we will have to wait for another OTT project so that Boman Irani may perform to the best of his abilities.
