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Mixed | Reviews Counted: 4
✓ Positive: 2
~ Neutral: 0
✗ Negative: 2
Reviews From All Critics
Rating: 3.0/5 · Hindustantimes ·
Positive ✓
The highlight of Brown is Amogh Deshpande’s cinematography. The series completely wraps itself in a noir aesthetic of heavy grays, deep blacks, and rain-slicked concrete, transforming Kolkata into a suffocating, active character in the mystery. Director Abhinay Deo brilliantly utilises silence and isolated framing to establish an immediate sense of dread from the very first frame. However, once you strip away this beautiful visual layer, the core thriller underneath feels disappointingly generic.
Rating: 3.5/5 · Timesnownews ·
Positive ✓
On paper, the story is brilliant, although slightly predictable for fans of crime thrillers. Abhinay Deo comes close to fully bringing it to life with his sharp attention to detail and strong visual sensibility. Yet, despite all its strengths, something crucial feels missing. It has all the elements of an international, award-worthy drama, but it never quite manages to fully hold your attention or pull you in completely.
Rating: 2.0/5 · Mensxp ·
Negative ✗
What makes the show still bingeworthy is the star cast led by Karisma Kapoor and Surya Sharma, and the curiosity around the mystery.
Rating: 2.0/5 · Indianexpress ·
Negative ✗
Karisma, always capable of much more than keeping in step with Govinda’s jhatkas in their 90s Bollywood blockbusters, (watch Zubeida, if you haven’t), is bound by tropes. She’s made to be much too morose before becoming, unbelievably, almost overnight, bright and clear-eyed. That’s when the actor in her comes to the fore, but that’s too little, too late.