Psycho Saiyaan Review: From love to obsession, Tejasswi Prakash's OTT debut is a total snooze fest

Psycho Saiyaan Review: There were high expectations from Tejasswi Prakash’s OTT debut, but she fails to impress, turning this romantic-thriller into a disappointing saga.

Tejasswi Prakash and Anud Singh Dhaka in a still from Psycho Saiyaan

Psycho Saiyaan Story: Psycho Saiyaan is a Hindi-language romantic thriller web series on Amazon MX Player that revolves around Kartik Pandey (Anud Singh Dhaka), a young, poetic student who believes in destiny-driven love and becomes obsessed with Charu Lata (Tejasswi Prakash), fixating on her and considering her his fate until his love becomes an obsession when Huntry Chauhan (Ravi Kishan), a ruthless, powerful gangster-politician, brings violent power games.

Psycho Saiyaan Review

Romantic thrillers captivate audiences by pairing heart-racing suspense with intense emotional bonds. As the danger increases, the relationship deepens, with every twist feeling personal. This genre thrives on this dual attraction, adrenaline-fueled stakes intertwined with emotional connections. However, Amazon MX Player's Psycho Saiyaan, which belongs to this same romantic thriller genre, fails to bring any solid suspense. Directed by Ajay Bhuyan, the series keeps adding meaningless and illogical subplots just to end the series.

Kartik Pandey (Anud Singh Dhaka) from Ujjain is a poetic young man who wants to help his father in his life because they are not financially strong. While doing so, he becomes fixated on Charu Lata (Tejasswi Prakash) from Katni, believing her to be his fated love, even though his childhood friend, Ritu (Srishti Shrivastava), keeps reminding him to be aware. What begins as a love affair quickly turns into a toxic, dangerous obsession, where Kartik's desire to control Charu turns into madness.

The tension escalates with the arrival of Huntry Chauhan (Ravi Kishan), a ruthless gangster-politician, a former actor, Hollywood level, as he claims in the series, whose presence brings violent, high-stakes manipulation into their lives, turning it into a love triangle story. This series explores whether love can survive when obsession and danger replace trust.

From the first episode, Psycho Saiyaan makes no sense. From the poor acting to the addition of meaningless subplots and rushed writing, everything absolutely ruins the whole series. The actors try their best to extricate the best expression out of them, but miserably fail to do so. When it is an emotional scene, you feel absolutely nothing for them because it seems they are forcing themselves for the sake of acting. Imagine being in an 'intense psycho' romantic thriller, and you can't even flaunt your smile like a psycho that can actually scare your soul.

In Ujjain, Kartik and Charu meet and fall in love, but Charu has bodyguards, and she goes back to Katni. When Kartik becomes obsessed with Charu, he reaches Katni and gets to know that Huntry is the would-be-husband of Charu, and from that moment, his challenge starts. The use of AI for a dog, a bird, and a bull will irritate your soul. No idea why they had to use AI for these, but it looks like Psycho Saiyaan was made forcefully. Some series are better not made, and Psycho Saiyaan is indeed one of them.

Remember, I said Kartik wants to help his father because they are not financially strong, but still, Kartik manages to go to Georgia to find Charu. What makes six-episodic Psycho Saiyaan even more tiresome is its inconsistent character development. Kartik is introduced as a sensitive, poetry-loving young man, but within the episode, he transforms into an obsessive character without any emotional depth or convincing transition. There's no emotional layering, no gradual descent into madness, just sudden behavioural shifts that are forced and poorly conceived. Instead of exploring the fragile line between love and obsession, the writing turns it into loud dialogue and exaggerated reactions.

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Tejasswi Prakash's performance, which carries considerable expectations for her OTT debut, unfortunately, lacks the emotional weight required for such a layered character. Her character, Charu Lata, is written as a woman caught between love and power, yet she falls apart at crucial moments. Be it romantic scenes or intense confrontations, the emotional pulses are never served. The chemistry between the main characters seems artificial, making it difficult to get invested in their relationship, which is the basis of a romantic thriller.

Anud Singh Dhaka, as Kartik, struggles to embody the intensity of a man spiralling into dangerous obsession. His expressions remain largely one-note, and the alleged "psychotic" edge rarely seems threatening. Instead of being unsettling, his portrayal often becomes unintentionally humorous.

Ravi Kishan’s Huntry Chauhan, designed to be a powerful and ruthless gangster-politician, also suffers from uneven writing. While his screen presence adds some weight, the character itself lacks consistency. His motivations are shallow, and his political-criminal background is never explored in depth.

As the series tries to reach its ultimate climax with the addition of another character (once you watch, you will understand), emotional exhaustion overtakes any desired thrill. What could have been an intense exploration of obsession becomes a chaotic mix of half-baked ideas, weak acting, and underdeveloped storytelling.

Psycho Saiyaan Verdict

Psycho Saiyaan had the potential to explore the dark, unsettling side of love turning into obsession, but it collapses under the weight of weak writing, poor acting, and uneven direction that lacks clarity or solidity. Despite the hype around Tejasswi Prakash’s OTT debut, the series fails to deliver the intensity or psychological depth the genre demands. The lack of believable character tension, uneven execution, and pointless subplots make it hard to get into the action. Even moments designed to shock or thrill leave no impact.

Psycho Saiyaan is streaming on Amazon MX Player!

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