Taish mini-series & movie review: A twin experiment in storytelling yields interesting results

Taish the series is fair enough, but it is the film that manages to effectively convey the wrath and passion of the title, making it Nambiar’s best work yet. ZEE5 is launching writer-director Bejoy Nambiar’s Taish in two versions: a six-part mini-series with episodes of around 30 minutes each and a two-and-a-half-hour feature film. Here’s the curious thing: Sunny feels sketchily written in the series but not in the film and the only reason I can think of – although the story of both is precisely the same – is that the approach is vastly different. This is not to suggest that Taish the film does not share some of the series’ writing flaws; it does.