{"id":5478,"date":"2016-05-01T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2016-05-01T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T02:04:11","slug":"bard-of-blood-review-emraan-hashmi-netflix-sobhita-dhulipala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"Bard of Blood Review: A Tiresome Spy Thriller Let Down By a Dispassionate Emraan Hashmi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n the last two years, every Indian original series (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sacred-games-season-2-review-netflix-gangster-ganesh-gaitonde-sartaj\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/selection-day-netflix-ratna-pathak-shah-ageist-bollywood\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selection Day<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/leila-review-netflix-huma-quereshi-praayag-akbar-deepa-mehta\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leila<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) sanctioned by Netflix has in various ways demonstrated that the streaming giant\u2019s formula for helming book adaptations isn\u2019t the most copper-bottomed. In general, book adaptations are tricky to mount on screen. They can either serve as additives to imaginative filmmaking, broadening the scope of the book\u2019s original universe or become outings that remain disconnected from the essence of its purpose. Netflix\u2019s book adaptations have oscillated between both these ends. But their latest effort, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an espionage thriller about an Indian spy who returns from self-inflicted retirement for a mission, is an indubitable nudge that perhaps it\u2019s time for the streaming giant to develop a new strategy.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most glaring dissonance of the series, adapted for the screen by Mayank Tewari, is that it feels foremost, at odds with the format it has chosen. Based on Bilal Siddiqi\u2019s eponymous novel and directed by Ribhu Dasgupta (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Te3n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> boasts neither the complexity nor the suspense to warrant seven episodes that run at a length upward of 45 minutes. The plot and the filmmaking are disturbingly spare \u2013 perhaps more appropriate for the duration of a two-hour film that condenses its shortcomings. But when stubbornly stretched over six hours, its shortcomings start unravelling at an alarming speed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> opens in present day (there is no mention of the year it is set in): Four Indian spies are held captive by the Taliban in Baluchistan. RAW bosses in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/why-this-is-the-year-every-delhi-capitals-fan-says-apna-time-aayega\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are all too happy to wash their hands off them, but Sadiq Sheikh (Rajit Kapur), the second-in-command thinks otherwise. He calls back Kabir Anand (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/so-you-think-you-can-cheat-india-emraan-hashmi-shreya-dhanwanthary\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emraan Hashmi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), a guilt-ridden agent dishonorably discharged after a botched mission in Baluchistan that ended with the death of his partner five years ago, to lead an off-the-books mission to rescue the men. The rest of the six episodes shuttle between Delhi and Baluchistan as Kabir and his team, Isha Khanna (Sobhita Dhulipala), a RAW analyst, and Veer Singh (a wasted Vineet Kumar), a neglected undercover agent, race against time to track the agents.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For one, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sticks close to the beats of a spy thriller: The show comprises a haunted protagonist looking for redemption, an intelligence agency that treats spies as liabilities, infighting and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/when-your-boyfriend-cheats-with-your-best-friend\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">betrayals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ample flashbacks, crushing tragedy, and menacing villains who go to any lengths to send a message. There is nothing wrong for a spy thriller to take refuge in these recognisable templates as long as it strives to build on them or subvert the expectations of the audience. But <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> refuses to reimagine these beats. Instead, it regurgitates them with a one-size-fits-all approach, resembling just about any other spy thriller. Its demerits are best evidenced in \u201cLove All, Trust a Few, Do Wrong to None,\u201d the show\u2019s fourth episode, which could have been nail-biting if the makers weren\u2019t so resolute in making it utterly generic.\u00a0<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">The biggest victim of <em>Bard of Blood<\/em>\u2019s incompetence is Dhulipala\u2019s Isha whose existence is routinely undermined in every episode.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is this episode \u2013 operating between two timelines \u2013 that ignites the plot in the truest sense of the word, laying bare the connections between its multiple narratives. It introduces Jannat (Kirti Kulhari), an idealistic Balochi secessionist forced to stand one step behind the men in her life, as well as divulges the true colours of Tanvir Shehzad (an entertaining Jaideep Ahlawat), an ISI agent in cohorts with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/portraits\/between-beheadings-and-bicycle-kicks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taliban<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Besides the fact that both of them are arguably two of the show\u2019s most promising characters, the episode also offers a flashback to Kabir\u2019s five-year-old mission, features a tense hand-to-hand combat sequence, and unwaps two separate betrayals.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, there is a surprising aimlessness about the way these subplots are translated on screen \u2013 they don\u2019t intertwine seamlessly and stand out as disjointed montages instead. Much of this stems from the show\u2019s \u201ctell but don\u2019t show\u201d approach that discloses a barrage of information to highlight the urgency of the situation instead of recreating the racy pacing it demands. For instance, the flashback scenes are let down by the unhealthy reliance on a voiceover that has a rehearsed quality to it: Hashmi delivers key lines in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/un-english-language-day-mother-tongue\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as if he\u2019s reciting poetry and not recollecting tragic fragments of his life. The combat sequences feel too disinteresting by the time the tragedy unfolds (a scene that the show goes back to at every given opportunity) and Jannat\u2019s predictable motivations are derailed by the screen time afforded to the soulless love-story between Kabir and her.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s precisely why <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is unable to convey the significance of that one revelation \u2013 involving a subterfuge on the part of the Taliban \u2013 that it parades as a crucial clue. In sepia-toned episode after episode, characters repeat this discovery to each other, convinced that it is the last missing piece of the puzzle. But by the time the show brings it up for the fourth time, the piece of information feels like an irrelevant detail, reducing the whole mission to a low-stakes affair.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a similar problem that faces Kabir, the show\u2019s lead, who is rendered as its weakest character, devoid of any depth or charisma. The makers offer insufficient insight into his motivations or guilt beyond the obvious broad strokes. Even though, we are told that he feels responsible for \u201ckilling\u201d his partner, we rarely sense the weight of his guilt. Moreover, the little details that make for a formidable protagonist are lacking: Kabir\u2019s life isn&#8217;t etched out beyond that doomed shootout and there is no explanation given behind his code-name (\u201cAdonis\u201d), which the show promptly discards after the first episode. It also doesn\u2019t help that Hashmi, an occassional misunderstood actor, misunderstands his role here, underplaying Kabir to an extent that he largely appears distant.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even then, the biggest victim of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> incompetence is Dhulipala\u2019s Isha whose existence is routinely undermined in every episode. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If one character claims that \u201cIndians won\u2019t make the mistake of sending a woman for such a big mission,\u201d then Kabir himself wonders why Sheikh would send a woman to Baluchistan. On her part, she spends the first two episodes complaining about not being sent on the field and pouting indiscriminately. If the intention of the makers was to highlight how female RAW agents are second-guessed in the field and not necessarily endorse that line of thinking, then it\u2019s undone by how the show uses Dhulipala: She is made to always exist in the periphery of proceedings. E<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ven in the dusty terrains of Baluchistan, Isha is presented as an aesthetic; her appearance untouched by the bloodiness of conflict.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than anything,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bard of Blood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feels primarily let down by a trademark Netflix Indian original problem: the inability to strike a balance between being accessible and being engrossing. It\u2019s a tightrope that every show, barring <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/how-do-you-measure-the-success-of-sacred-games-hurting-sentiments\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has struggled to perfect and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is no different, playing out more like an extended cliffhanger rather than a show. It remains gloriously ignorant about its politics and adopts a sanitised gaze, which weighs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">down the show&#8217;s inconsistent writing. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike the Hindi dialogues, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> self-conscious English lines (\u201cPlease give me the respect of a fellow warrior,\u201d Jannat pleads in one scene), don\u2019t flow like they are part of routine conversation. Instead, they feel like performative dialogues whose insincerity is impossible to shake off. Throughout its runtime then, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bard of Blood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remains more inclined to be a series that caters to an international audience rather than taking its job of becoming an Indian series on an international platform, seriously. The trouble is, it\u2019s a dull, awful attempt at being either.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bard of Blood is yet another insipid Netflix book adaptation that feels foremost, at odds with the format it has chosen. 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