Mumbai: Actor Anushka Sharma's debut digital production, the thriller web series Paatal Lok premiered on May 15. Within days of it's streaming on Amazon, the nine-part series is creating ripples on social media. While critics are lauding the thriller, a section of the audience, unpleased with the show's socio-political comment is voicing their opinions on social media.
Anushka's maiden OTT production is inspired by Tarun Tejpal's novel The Story Of My Assassins. Critics are lauding writer-creator Sudip Sharma for going deeper than the novel and creating neo-noir suspense, gruesome gore, fascinating while blending it with mythological allegory.
However, after the release of Paatal Lok, Twitter is flooded with divided opinion where netizens are raising objection over a few scenes.
A scene that has become the talking point has a female cop beating a young woman and asking her if the guy she is with is "friend or client?" while calling her "Nepali wh**e”. The scene, in particular, has apparently hurt the sentiment of the viewers in the Northeast who want the creators to either censor or completely remove that segment.