Human on Hotstar is too confusing and too messy to be a good medical thriller

Medical thrillers are the new craze for the OTTs but Human on Hotstar takes on much more on itself than it can handle which sidelines the medical issue it's trying to say.

We are all living in a time of a medical thriller itself so it's natural for the genre to become popular for OTTs to tap into. From SonyLIV's Whistleblower to Amazon's Mumbai Dairies is bringing in the struggle and the dark side of the medical fraternity to our screens. And Human on Hotstar, starring Shefali Shaah and Kirti Kulhari as the leads, is just another medical thriller that goes on to explore the dark side of the vaccine and drug trial industry. But combining it with themes of grief, woman power, queerness, the aftermath of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, class inequalities, and so much more, Human as a series becomes all too confusing and messy to keep up with it.

The premise of the show is simple and a classic one- good vs evil but it's just made into an unnecessarily complicated one by adding in more themes. The good Mrs. Saira Sabharwal (Kirti Kulhari), enters as the new cardiac surgeon in a leading hospital in Bhopal, Manthan run by the evil Mrs. Gauri Nath (Shefali Shah). Saira like most people looks up to the famous and rather mystifying Gauri and is completely unknown to her devilish side. Gauri on the other hand with her husband and others is involved in the whole corrupt system of pharma-politics. They all are desperately trying to fastrack the drug trial of S93R and bring it into the market for heart diseases. But the lives that are at stake for all this are of the people who are living in poverty and are struggling with the aftermath of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

It's obvious that the series took up more than it could really handle. Saira is good at heart she is so good at heart that she ends up becoming dumb plus she is a closeted lesbian who is married to a photojournalist. The same way the devilishness of Gauri is taken to such an extreme that she ends up not scaring anyone plus she is in an open marriage who is a gas tragedy victim that hasn't grieved over the loss of her son's death. And Mangu's storyline is of a pawn and used for benefit just as his character is in the show without any understanding behind it. Too many themes, in-the-face storytelling, confusing backstories and always being in the extremes is what ends up killing the show making the series detached from human rather than making it more inhuman.

It's as if the makers, Vipul Amrutlal Shah and Mozez Singh, were extremely inspired by the show The Handmaid's Tale and the film The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and thought of combining it together with the vaccine industry, as that's what has gripped the world these days, and ended up creating a mess. This 10-episodic mess is just filled with unnecessary glamour, glances, a medical fraternity that is just used for the show without anything concrete, and of course, a complete waste of the talent it has as its star cast. It's unbelievable and for the first time for me that I ended up not liking Shefali Shah at all and there was no sort of magic that she could create with her eyes. And as for the rest of the cast including Kirti Kulhari, Seema Biswas, Ram Kapoor, Vishal Jethwa, Atul Kumar, Indraneil Sengupta, Sandeep Kulkarni, and Sushil Pandey could not stir up any emotions either.

From the script to the cast to the direction to the editing to the background score this show is disappointing which had the potential to be a great medical thriller. It is currently streaming on Disney+ Hotstar and if you want to go on ahead to read about what the Janta is saying about Human then click on the link below!

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