Sultan of Delhi

Name: Sultan of Delhi
Genre: Action
Released: 2023-10-13
Cast: Mouni Roy, Vinay Pathak, Anupriya Goenka, Harleen Sethi

Mixed How TezScore works IMDb 5.5/10

45 min 13 Oct 2023

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Sultan of Delhi

The story of Arjun Bhatia, a teenage immigrant from Lahore who works with Delhi's top illicit arms dealer Jagan Seth, is told in the 2023 TV mini-series Sultan of Delhi. The series is based on Arnab Ray's novel Sultan of Delhi: Ascension. The story follows the ascension of a mobster in 1960s Delhi. Arjun is a 1947 Partition survivor who witnessed his family's slaughter. He makes it through the night with his father and arrives at Delhi. The show opens with a gathering of a half-dozen elderly men who oversee the city's underbelly. Farooq Mastaan (Anil George) calls the conference to order and tells the gang leaders to work together. He designates Arjun as the foremost among equals, the guy who will henceforth make the decisions. The series delves into a story of greed, treachery, bravery, and the ultimate struggle for dominance.

Release: 13 Oct 2023
Run time: 45 min
Language: Hindi

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Characters pop in without explanation, like a mysterious white man, Daniel, who wears a pilot's uniform all the time (the costume budget must have run out with Shankari's outfits), and there are bizarre scenes, like Arjun stripping to impress a rival gangster. At some point, a conglomeration of Delhi's mafia dons appoint Arjun the Sultan and there are the usual mess-ups and betrayals, with enough threads left loose to tie up in the next season. There are plenty of shootouts and a fair amount of sex over the nine brisk episodes though Karan Vyas's dialogue is thankfully free of profanity. But there is never much tension generated, and the viewer does not know whether to admire Arjun's gumption or be shocked at the evil he is capable of. It does not help when the actor dimples enigmatically through the tough scenes, and lets the creepy and stylishly handsome RP steal the show.

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