Akkad Bakkad Rafu Chakkar review: The Raj Kaushal directorial needs more crisp writing with better execution

2.5/5

Story:

The series revolves around Bhargav Sharma, who is deeply affected by the tragic death of his parents and now doesn’t believe in good deeds anymore. It leads him to set a group with his friend Siddharth Rastogi to pull one of the biggest scams of the country.

Review

The series on one of the small-turned-big bank frauds in the country talks about money, robbery, relationships and more. Akkad Bakkad Rafu Chakkar is one of those shows that makes the audience connect to the story in its pilot episode itself. However, the initial episode set the bar so high that the rest of the series couldn’t hold onto.

The series begins with a reality check for the audiences, where it reveals that India has witnessed several huge financial scams but a large portion of common people are still unaware of them.

The first episode that hooked the audience to the show begins on a sad note, where the lead actor of the show witnesses his parents' death, which went on to become an inspiration for him. Vicky Arora’s Bhargav Sharma plans to pull a bank fraud with the innocent people of his deceased parents’ village. To make his plan work, he decides to contact the most mindful man he knows - a college professor Hari Shukla (Shishir Sharma) and starts to plan a strategy with the whole group.

The first episode genuinely makes you wanna binge watch the entire show and it sets the bar so high that the rest of the series couldn’t hold on to. For instance, the lead actor and his friend called Siddharth Rastogi (Anuj Rampal) go to a bar to onboard one more person in their group. The club scene introduces a lesbian couple but the performances of the actors are immensely tacky, which doesn’t let the viewers process the depth and reality of the relationship that has been played by Swati Semwal as Radha Bhandari and Sreya Muthukumar as Khushi Singh.

Swati’s badass tomboy girl most of the time looks overpowering with weird and needless dialogues.

Other than that, Flora Saini’s character, who is a small town big star called P.C., has gotten needless runtime to showcase unnecessary seductiveness in the show.

Meanwhile, the whole planning and execution that has been showcased in 10 long episodes could have been completed in 5-6 episodes and it would also have made the series less snooze-worthy.

However, as the pilot episode, the climax of the show is also an absolute hit, where the scammers get caught by one of the biggest gangsters in town and told to be a part of the even bigger heist.

The show has ended on a great cliffhanger which definitely makes the audience crave for the second season.

Verdict:

The beginning and the end might have saved the Raj Kaushal directorial. Yet, the writing by Aman Khan could have been more crisp with better execution and performances. Akkad Bakkad Rafu Chakkar oughts to be watched once and it makes us hopeful for a better season of the show ahead.