: ‘Grahan’ review: A sincere but unwieldly effort to revisit the anti-Sikh violence of 1984 #IndiaNEWS The Disney+ Hotstar web series Grahan goes over ground more fruitfully covered in Shonali Bose’s

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‘Grahan’ review: A sincere but unwieldly effort to revisit the anti-Sikh violence of 1984 #IndiaNEWS
The Disney+ Hotstar web series Grahan goes over ground more fruitfully covered in Shonali Bose’s debut feature Amu (2005). Amu revolved around a woman whose parents were killed in the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi in 1984. In Grahan, a police officer confronts the possibility that her beloved father might have been responsible for slaughtering Sikhs and looting their homes.The father, Gurusewak (Pavan Malhotra), appears to be Sikh himself, and has brought up his daughter Amrita (Zoya Hussain) in the Sikh faith. Yet, Amrita finds herself holding a photograph of her father, younger and clean-shaven, and leading a mob in Bokaro in Jharkhand. When did the religious conversion happen, and was it accompanied by a change of heart? Gurusewak’s refusal to discuss the matter with Amrita, also called Amu throughout the show, causes tensions between father and daughter.Amrita stumbles upon the incriminating photograph after she is named as the head of a committee that is reinvestigating the violence. The chief instigator of the Bokaro chapter of the riots was Sanjay Singh (Teekam Joshi), who has since emerged as the main rival of Jharkhand Chief Minister Kedar Bhagat (Satyakaam Anand). The series, based on Satya Vyas’s 2019 novel Chaurasi, has been created by Shailendra Kumar Jha, adapted by a minor...Read more

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