A decade ago, scenes like the bloodied head rolling down a byway and the mobster being put to death at the same maachher bazaar where he had gutted a man with a boti like a fish would probably never have been approved for Bengali cinema. OTT’s wave of criminal productions did Indian film a lot of good.
There was no flinching from the audience during the theatrics of Kharaj Mukherjee’s mob boss Tapan striking at a man’s bandaged limb or Swastika Mukherjee’s Mandira slashing her husband’s killer with a sickle, thanks to the depictions of kachra mafia in Sacred Games or the profuse gore of Mirzapur.