CAST: PAVAN RAJ MALHOTRA, SUPRIYA PATHAK, SAHIL MEHTA, GAGAN ARORA, RANVIR SHOREY

DIRECTOR: AJITPAL SINGH

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Ajitpal Singh’s Tabbar is a lesson on celluloid of how to impact your audiences with pure emotion.

Created and written by Harman Wadala, and co-written by Sandeep Jain, Tabbar deploys very credible theatre art to bring his characters to life.  The logical, calculative Omkar (Pavan Raj Malhotra) and the emotional mother Sargun (Supriya Pathak Kapur), parents to Teji (Sahil Mehta), and the civil services aspirant Happy (Gagan Arora) are caught in a sudden situation inadvertently where they get embroiled in the killing of the drug peddling brother of a local businessman-politician (Ranvir Shorey) in their home. The tracks of drugs in Punjab, scams are all sub-threads to the main story which is about how the family deals with the aftermath of this murder.

THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES

The murder is committed in the first racy episode and after that is the biggest hook for the interest of the audience. Omkar’s efforts to save his family by bending every possible rule he can think of – both legal and societal form the rest of the story. The question that we keep asking ourselves is how far he will go and the Director, the writers, and the camera keep you glued and he goes as far as any human possibly can.

The series has you hooked from the go. The actors, the tight deliberate direction, well-written plot, and screenplay are complimented by the hues and tones, the imagery in each shot and overall brilliance of presentation because the tension that it creates from the word go sinks into the bodies of the viewers.