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Aarya – Antim Vaar Review: Creator Ram Madhvani revealed right in the opening shot of the season 3 trailer of his family crime drama Aarya that Sushmita Sen’s lead character gets shot. The rest of the season plays out in flashbacks, but the investigation is less about why he is shot, how he gets there, whether he survives, or who pulls the trigger. While all these questions and discoveries leave a lot of room for emotion, it’s the larger, more general question that interests Ram the most: Will Aarya get closure?
(Also read: Interview with Ram Madhvani: ‘I wanted Sushmita Sen to play Aarya in Season 3 as a mythological character’)
Closing all the loops
The family crime drama is a genre that keeps on giving. From Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic Godfather trilogy to Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s recent Bollywood blockbuster Animal, there’s a lot to swallow, chew, drink and digest. From the relentless thrills of its script to the underlying commentary on how the choices of one generation influence those of the next and how children end up becoming exactly what they despised in their parents, a family crime drama is an endlessly sumptuous feast.
Aarya understands all the beats of this genre well only because Ram and his co-directors Kapil Sharma and Shraddha Pasi Jairath are constantly able to strike the perfect balance between emotion and drama. Unlike Prime Video India’s recent show Indian Police Force, you cannot distinguish which scene is directed by Rohit Shetty and which are directed by his junior co-director Sushwant Prakash. The common thread of all the seasons of Aarya is linked to his ideology, and that is what gives the show its own fascinating personality.
This does not imply that Aarya remains static. Like its protagonist, the show has also evolved from its first installment in 2020 to the last in 2024. Sushmita Sen’s Aarya Sareen has remained a fiercely protective mother and a woman with great self-preservation skills, but growth can be seen tangible from the relatively hapless widow of season 1 to the indefatigable force of nature in season 3.2. In fact, Aarya really comes full circle in the first and last season where she is skeptical about the world of crime unlike in seasons 2 and 3 where she is in the eye of the storm and to some extent even taking over. he. .
It’s hard to forget the scene from season 1 when an inconsolable Sushmita bites into the shadi ka laddoo after her husband’s murder. Season 3 begins with her enjoying a cigarette by her pool, but Antim Vaar never catches her smoking; At night, she mainly drinks wine after the day’s tasks, reflecting on the life she has been, rather than planning the next big deal. Sushmita Sen brings a lot of ease to this extremely demanding and challenging arc. She is as at peace when she collapses to the ground as when she bloodies a sword. Sushmita preserves every part of her throughout the show, only to unleash her inner Durga in the gripping finale.
Disturbing season, gripping finale
Said ending is the perfect shot in the arm (no pun intended) to a deeply disturbing season. While most of Aarya was steeped in doomed sauce or carrying the baggage of a life-altering tragedy, the final season hurts you in a new way. Neither Aarya’s constant do-gooder streak nor her scheming and resourceful ways can help her overcome the web of defeats that life has entangled itself in. There is a constant sinking feeling, of an anchor weighing down your throat, that you fight against, as if nothing will be the same again. It only changes in the last episode, when Aarya recovers, she reconciles with her destiny and lets loose like a beast with nothing to lose.
Concluding a family crime drama is a slippery slope because each generation continues to avenge the other. For example, when Veer’s girlfriend Roop dies at the end of season 3.1, we see him scattering her ashes to the tune of Bade Ache Lagte Hain, the same song with which Aarya remembers her husband. When Veer disowns Aarya, her mother tells him that children can no longer be hurt by her mother, and moments later we see Aarya hugging her mother, a woman who hurt her. Karma comes not only to Aarya but also to Khan when he loses a close associate and realizes that in his blind quest to catch Aarya red-handed, he has lost irretrievably. Daulat (Sikandar Kher), who shot his father, ends up saving Aarya’s children. *spoiler alert* And finally, Aarya, whose husband was murdered by her gangster father’s right hand, ends up being shot by her own person.Spoiler alert ends*.
However, some sour points remain: Geetanjali Kulkarni’s character of Sushila, who one expected to crumble in unexpected ways, also gets short shrift this season, wasting a fine actor in the process. Ila Arun did a lot of talking and posturing in the previous installment, but his menacing personality loses its luster as his mannerisms become repetitive, his son becomes more annoying, and his English accent becomes more awkward. Sushmita repeating her vow, “Maine jo bhi kiya, apne bachchon ke liye kiya” becomes exhausting, before Daulat asks her to do, rather than say. Getting out of the verbal circle also helps you escape narrative circles.
When you finally see Sushmita scream at the top of her lungs and hit like a goddess, you feel that carnal instinct in your bones. You stop worrying about the fate of her family, worrying if this is really the last of arguably India’s best show yet, and praying that the potential prey in all of us doesn’t meet a tragic end. Like Aarya, you know the end is near, but you’re ready to accept it because you got the closure you needed.
Aarya – Antim Vaar is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
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