Gobhir Joler Mach review: Ushasi Ray, Trina Saha, Swastika Dutta and Ananya Sen’s twisted thriller is a cringefest

Sahana Dutta’s series offers nothing but oodles of cringe.

Ushasi Ray, Swastika Dutta, Reina Saha and Ananya Sen

Gobhir Joler Mach

Story: Four friends Bishakha (Ushasi Ray), Aratrika (Swastika Dutta), Diti (Trina Saha) and Chandrima (Ananya Sen) are childhood friends who meet once a month to gossip. On one such gossipy day, Chandrima announces that her husband Tirtha (Judhajit Sarkar) has been cheating on her. She drags her friends, who were being mean to her, to an idiotic game of partner swapping and then she dies after falling from a high-rise building.

Review: Not every day, you get to watch something as bad as Gobhir Joler Mach. It can only be identified as toxic content that glorifies pettiness. It has a flimsy script, lousy acting, and dodgy locations. It has a challenging plot like husband swiping and yet the makers messed it up with a half-hearted ethos of morality that does not allow them to be brave.

At the very outset, Gobhir Joler Mach starts with a shoddy location that reflects no production value. A fancy restaurant does not look like a restaurant, a kitchen looks like the one borrowed from some reality show, and the list goes on.

It has to be noted that most of the actors and actresses offer terrible performances. While Swastika is too loud and adopted a strange way of talking, Trina looks unreal. Ananya, a seasoned theatre actress, delivers the worst performance as Chandrima. With glasses and comparatively more realistic sartorial choices, Ushasi is still bearable among actresses. Among the actors, it is Arpan Ghoshal who is still believable (but his house, costume and profession is as unreal as the series). Shoumo as Dhrubo is perhaps a little less terrible.

Then comes the script. The dialogues on the moral stands of the women characters drag them down to a new low. From passing random judgements on women to blaming the victim and ticking all the stereotypes that a misogynistic society would define a woman’s character – Gobhir Joler Mach has everything. And that goes on for eight episodes, each almost half an hour long.

Verdict: Like Hoichoi’s latest fad, the show does not care to resolve the crime in the hope that it may help them business-wise. However, the series is as bad as it gets. It is advisable to stay away from the show. Even if you don’t get back to the second season after the trauma of the first, you will miss nothing.

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