Aarya cast: Sushmita Sen, Chandrachur Singh, Vikas Kumar, Ankur Bhatia, Sikander Kher, Namit Das, Manish Chaudhary, Jayant Kriplani, Sohaila Kapur, Maya Sarao, Priyasha Bhardwaj, Sugandha Garg, Alexx O'Neil, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Jagdish Purohit, Flora Saini, Virti Vaghani, Pratyaksh Panwar, Joy Sengupta Panwar, Viren Vazirani.
Aarya directors: Ram Madhvani, Sandeep Modi, Vinod Rawat
Aarya rating: 3 stars
Watching Aarya reminds you how well the classic phrase 'even in the best families' is incorporated into it. From the outside, Aarya Sareen, a supremely fit, still-stunning mother of three, seems to have it all: loving husband, luxury life, no other problems than choosing the day's outfit from a seriously classy wardrobe.
However, scratch a little, and spill out several cans of wriggly worms that keep us busy watching through the web series' nine episodes co-created by Ram Madhvani and Sandeep Modi. Yes, under all that glitter, there's dirt and grime and that happens in the best of families.
Aarya, based on the Spanish series Penoza, tells us the story (co-written by Sandeep Srivastava and Anu Singh Choudhary) of a woman who is catapulted into her dodgy family business' hot-seat. She takes command after initial reluctance, rising in confidence and aplomb, facing one challenge after another. How do you react when a dark underbelly has got what you thought was a pharmaceutical concern? ('Afeem se dawaai banti hai, aur heroin bhi' is the adage that the family lives by) How do you react when your loved ones, those you thought you had your back, turn out to be snakes?
Just. Simple. You steel yourself and step up to the plate when you are a woman whose sole concern is to protect her family. Or, as in this case, you are collecting a weapon.
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