Dahaad review: Sonakshi Sinha's engaging police procedural undone by an undercooked finale
Hindustan TimesThe mainstream cinematic obsession with overtly stylish, muscular, and vengeful policemen has seen an unlikely growth in the past decade. In Dahaad the new Prime Video series from the makers of Made in Heaven, she knows better as sub-inspector Anjali Bhaati: she arrives on her bike to meet a boy for a wedding match. Dahaad, the new series created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, fixes its gaze squarely on a small town named Mandwa in Rajasthan. There's a rhythmic balance in the way Anand goes about his ways and Dahaad pulls the audience into that secrecy. Even if Dahaad trips when it comes to that big showdown, Varma's performance is so layered and consistently menacing that you know exactly what he's been cultivating all this while in silence.