Amazon Prime Video's Pataal Lok is both powerful and problematic. Here's Why!!
At the very onset, Delhi’s colonies are astutely demarcated into Swarg Lok (heaven), Dharti Lok (earth) and Pataal Lok (netherworld) that preludes the concatenation of events constituting this riveting neo-noir drama. The utterance comes from Inspector Hathi Ram Chaudhary, who tactically imparts this wisdom to his subordinates, claiming to have sourced it from a messaging platform. “ Waise to shashtron mei kaha hai , lekin maine WhatsApp pe padha tha ” (A lthough it i s mentioned in religious scriptures, but I read it on WhatsApp ), words that instantly thrust u s into the i diosyncrasy of this meticulously curated reflection of both paradise and purgatory. Hathi Ram Chaudh ary is our m an of the hour ( r ather the entire series spanned over 9 epi sodes), a n e xpedient mid dle-age c op routinely embroi led in th e c ircadian mundanities of the Delhi Pol ice force, p erilously yearning to rise above his m