Mirzapur Season 3 Review: Men Turn More Violent In Purvanchal As Women Seek Restraint
Mirzapur season 3 is mostly about the violent men from Purvanchal. Meanwhile, the women from the series advise and practice restraint to bring peace in the region in the third season of Mirzapur. From the beginning episode to end, the Prime series directed by Gurmmeet Singh (the third season) is about only three things: violence, again violence and more violence. The first season starts with a Game of Thrones-like beheading of a teenage boy while it ends with bloodbath in a cartel meeting. Apart from this, the latest season remains an expansion of what has been happening in the world of Tripathis, Shuklas, Guptas and Tyagis of Purvanchal. However, the Mirzapur season 3 offers some glimpses of marvellous acting by its protagonists including Ali Fazal as the blood thirsty Guddu Pandit, Shweta Tripathi as ambitious Golu Gupta, Vijay Varma as the revengeful Tyagi and Anjum Sharma as the schemer Sharad Shukla.
After a supposed downfall at the end of the season 2 of the most famous Indie series that is about the drug cartels and mafia from the Eastern Uttar Pradesh and parts of Bihar, Pankaj Tripathi (as Akhandanand Tripathi or Kaleen Bhaiya), the leading character in the previous editions, remains a mute spectator all through the latest season but to turn to his real self as his family responsibilities and past calls him to duty. He remains under medical care or as a silent advisor to his protector in the entire season. But, in the end, he emerges more of a Kaleen Bhaiya than a mute spectator – that was the only time the talented actor comes to his full force in this season.
Ali Fazal, the lead actor in this season, is full of shades as he plots to remain in the throne of Mirzapur after the disappearance of Kaleen Bhaiya. The writer (Avinash Singh Tomar) has given Fazal the best role in the third season as he is the most powerful in the region but with several vulnerabilities. Fasal, though sometimes turns to the cliched mannerisms of villains in confusion, manages his villainous and senile portrayal of Guddu Pandit to keep the viewer hooked to the story. The way he portrayed the ups and downs of the latest ‘Bahubali’ leader of the region is commendable and was presented with some excellent acting moments when he goes to the extremes to satisfy his egos (as a character in the series says that Guddu works according to the swings in his egos).
Another actor who got full screen time in the third season of Mirzapur is Anjum Sharma, as Sharad Shukla, the don of Jaunpur who wants to dethrone Guddu from Mirzapur and become the leader of entire Purvanchal. He is composed and upto the mark as Sharad Shukla and lived upto the paramount portrayal of the character. Vijay Varma as the one of the Tyagis is limited to less scenes, but the effervescent actor delivered a stunning performance for a character that demanded serious acting.
Shweta Tripathi as Golu Gupta, the right-hand woman of Guddu, has an on and off screen time in this series. But, she made the acting impactful with the effect that the scenes have been carved out of only to be presented by the versatile actress. Isha Talwar as Chief Minister Madhuri Yadav on the other hand is appearing as the good lady who wants to end the violence in the state but her means of doing it is mostly aligned with the cartels. Talwar, with a role which carries a static emotional depth in the entire season, remains an important character but reduced to remain as an eyewitness to the main plot evolving in the entire story.
Versatile OTT actress Rasika Dugal’s Beena Tripathi is also cut down to a mere spectator and left as a sidekick in the third season where men of the region thrives in violence.
Timeline verdict: Mirzapur Season 3 is filled with violence, and there has been nothing in the entire ten episodes that can be called bingeworthy. If you leave the season halfway after watching the repetition of the same old story of revenge, you can’t complain.
