Irai Series Review: Sarathkumar dazzle in a series that needed a breath
There is more chance for the next episode and tap better into the potential of the content, they really have a stellar crime-thriller in the tamil OTT.
This web series Irai in tamil sets up a story that deals with one such social evil about sexual exploitation of children which tells an investigative story.
The story starts with two narratives: one that shows how crooked and corrupt law enforcement is, and the other that shows how truth triumphs when coupled with courage.
The first story begins in the year 1985 whose name is ashok kumar (Srikrishna Dayal), who runs a child prostitution team in kodaikanal and also manages to use his political influence to get out of prison whenever he does some mistakes.
The second narrative comes around a set in present-day kodaikanal, follows a missing investigation headed by Robert Vasudevan (Sarathkumar), a disturbed police officer who is brought in as a consultant in the case of a missing politician. Initially, the two storylines point out two different stories to introduce the setting of this world.
After a long character introduction with exaggerated buildups, the shown scenes are meant to show the inner demons that Robert is facing inside his body, but they never dig deep into his condition. For instance, even after we know that Robert's wife Sheeba discourages him not to going back to fieldwork due to past trauma. It is about a child sexual assault.
In Ashok's narrative, we see the ordeals that Ashok's wife and her child are being accused of. With minimal dialogue, the series manages to disturb and keep us going through such gruesome depictions. The only character who works well is Robert Sarath Kumar.
This also brings a new character Roberts's sister who was kidnapped in his presence by Ashok's men, and Robert still struggles to move on due to a lack of closure in his childhood days. When it comes to the investigation Robert fails to make a strong impression on the police. Robert is aware of some details we are already aware of.
Another majorly underutilized character is a police officer named Anitha.
There is no additional perspective in this investigation. Irai is structured in how simple and clear it wants its structure to be, but this clarity doesn't extend which is explained in the book.
The actor who played all the characters looks the part and is well-aware of what the role demands them. At last, the series combines both the stories and finds out the politician and the reason behind the child abuse.
In particular, the transitions between the sequences that is creatively well done by the team.
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