Mumbai Diary 26/11
Director: Nikkhil Advani, Nikhil Gonsalves
Cast: Mohit Raina, Konkona Sen Sharma, Shreya Dhanwantri, Mrinmayi Deshpande, Natasha Bhardwaj, Satyajit Dubey, Tina Desai, Prakash Belawadi
Firstly, Mumbai Diaries 26/11 is now difficult to slot on Amazon Prime Video. Is it a medical thriller or a crime story? Set during the Mumbai terrorist attacks in November 2011, most of the eight episodes between 30 and 55 minutes took place at the Bombay General Hospital; Some people walk towards the Palace Hotel (Taj Mahal) in front of the Gateway of India. While cutting down on the number of episodes, it would be prudent to focus on the hospital scene. It could have turned the series starring Nikkhil Advani and Nikkhil Gonsalves into a tighter and more effective work.
The plot revolves around Dr. Kaushik Oberoi (Mohit Raina), who saves, even opens the chest cavity and gets the heart pumping again, but throws protocol to the winds. This enrages the hospital head, Dr. Mani Subramaniam (Prakash Belavadi) and the law enforcement agent. But when the pandemic begins with many terrorists waging war against India’s financial capital, the hospital, surrounded by the wounded and dying, has to look the other way when Oberoi acts in a way that is highly suspicious. It is possible. He performs surgery outside the operation theatre, and even revives a 77-year-old destitute patient by performing a procedure that is unimaginable.
These episodes feature stories related to three freshers who attend the hospital on the day of murder and mayhem. They are utterly confused how to handle a situation of this magnitude, and one of them, Ahaan Mirza (Satyajit Dubey), is a Muslim – and religious temptation comes to the fore when he performs life-saving techniques on a hospital nurse. Doing slips. Wounded by gunmen on the streets of the city. And let’s not forget how television channels rigged police operations to increase their ratings!
Oberoi’s wife, Ananya Ghosh (Tina Desai), is trapped in the hotel with dozens of guests, and with social worker Chitra Das (Konkona Sen Sharma), having issues of her own with the hospital management, things work out for the medical staff. Gets very hot. His sense of desperation is humble.
A horrifying picture of life and death emerges from the wards of the hospital when terrorists enter it to try to save one of their own who was injured in police firing. A tense and dramatic scene ensues when Oberoi tries to save the injured man and a cop points a gun at the doctor and orders him to let the man die.
It’s a bit of a shame that the series hasn’t been tightened enough, as we’ve had some great performances. Raina is brilliant as the irritable Oberoi, who curses freely but does his job brilliantly. Sen Sharma brings a touch of humanity when she emphasizes that every life counts, age does not matter. Belavadi has a beautiful arc that spans from anger to gentleness. The way he rolls around as a bloody night with hundreds of injured being taken to hospital is a sight to behold.
Otherwise, Mumbai Diaries 26/11 has nothing new to offer; We’ve read and re-read about carnage so many times that the series fails to evoke even a remote sense of curiosity. This is where it differs significantly from the Delhi crime, which after investigation led to the horrific rape of a young medical student. It was refreshing and had a lot to offer.
(Gautam Bhaskaran is a film critic and writer)
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