Mai review: Sakhi Tanwar’s crime thriller is majestically expressive and gives goosebumps to fans

Directed by the debuting Atul Mongia and the one-film-old Anshai Lal, Mai is a revelation of the murder mystery by a mom

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Mai Directors: Anshai Lal, Atul Mongai

Cast: The main cast of the series includes Sakshi Tanwar, Vivek Mushran, Wamiqa Gabbi, Raima Sen, Prashant Narayanan, Ankur Ratan, Anant Vidhaat, Vaibhav Raj Gupta, Seema Pahwa.

Story track: The series is the story of a mother Sheel Chaudhary played by Sakshi Tanwar, a middle-class woman, who witnesses her daughter’s accident. Her daughter Supriya is being hit by a truck.  Soon after the accident, she discovers that it isn’t as simple as it is presented. She tries to find the truth behind the whole matter.

In the series, Sheel burrows deeper into the dirt, getting closer to the secret behind her daughter’s accident. It revolves around how a normal working woman gets equipped to take on complicit cops, a dodgy businessman (Prashant Narayanan), a hard-eyed female gangster (Raima Sen), and brutal baddies. The series revolves around the story of a mother whose daughter died in front of her. Her daughter is run over by a truck in front of her eyes, chance coincidences force Sheel to almost dead-walk through a self-sustained investigation. 

Sakshi Tanwar has done a great job in the series. It is a series centered on a middle-aged woman. Sucked into the Lucknow underworld The mother resolves to get to the bottom of the truth about her daughter. The intensity of the character is maintained by Sakshi very well. Sheel is a wife, a mother and a woman in a man's world. 

Mai is a thriller movie with lots of hidden twists and turns. It is also a story of greed, fear, and thwarted dreams. A strong impression is made by Mai thanks to the lighting for the director of photography. The director has done a great job presenting Sheel from a normal woman to a mother who is ready to do anything to reveal the truth.

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 Raima Sen, Wamiqa Gabbi and Seema Pahwa as divergent women who refuse to accept the lines that men have drawn for them also contribute to giving the series its soul and substance.

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