Review of ‘Arab Kadali’ web series: Satyadev, Anandi is the saving grace of this heavy drama

Arab Kadali Starts with a clear disadvantage, making its base on events that have already inspired the Telugu film widely seen, Thandel (This year a big hit). It asks the story of fishermen of Andhra Pradesh to arrest them to wander into foreign water in Pakistan, tirelessly waiting for returning home and reunioning with its loved ones, which feels like a distant dream in the day.

The show underlines the extraordinary patience and perseverance of fishermen, co-written by Krisha Jagalamudi (and Chintukindi Srinivas Rao), while a woman fights back home back to teeth and nails to ensure their release. VV Surya Kumar begins with the worldly realities of director fishermen, their debt-affected families, disappointment air, which pushes them to transfer them to Gujarat and exploitation of corporates.

Hero Badri (Satyadeva) is the only consolation of his childhood girlfriend Ganga (Anandi) in life; He has a love story that is expected to keep the show together. Revealed on a flashback, Arab Kadali The unfortunate situations bring to life in which fishermen find themselves in Pakistan and how the growing political stress between nations reduces the possibility of a return.

The main issue with Arab Kadali It is inability to make the characters out of the victims and make meaningful mutual relations. Those beaten up against him are depicted as a caricature. The show depicts its struggles that employ the general clitch on the ‘inhumane’ neighboring nation, without building a solid foundation. There are stock conditions all around, and the detailing sketch.

Even Badri and Ganga are teenagers, the latter, as a will of their love, declare that she will wait for her, in any situation, which can lead to the base, she can come.

As Badri rotates in jail, we get a glimpse of what their relationship can be, but it is not enough to justify its epic. An older hills in their way are an old – a father wants his daughter to marry a rich man.

While the struggle grows manifold for Badri and group over time, the play is hardly attracted. There is a lack of storytelling, temporary political situation and establishment of characters established in Pakistan, lack of honesty. Their enmity is to deliberately provoke, and to avoid generalization, some good people are also present there, doing their jobs to help Badri back home.

In fact, how do Ganga’s efforts take her closer to her chase? There is no clarity, and convenient writing and freedom never helps the reason for the show. Arab Kadali Almost a saint makes the end from Badri to the end, as a person who will not intend to harm his enemy. The big heart of an Indian is enough to melt the heart of a hot blood Pakistani police, demanding to settle the score.

Later episodes, focused on infiltration between fishermen, their subsequent heart change, confrontation with an army officer, mechanically shot. The subplot around the Ganges’s brother, who deviates in the absence of his father, does not affect. Over -times, you hear about Jetty about being a panacea for all diseases, but how will it really change the fishermen’s fate? You do not know much.

Amidst all disappointment, Arab Kadali Tie the fate of two warning villages, holding the life of the sea and beyond, is a grand shooting. The last line of the show-‘What we do with our new freedom, it’s all more important’-a thought-conscious. Satyadeva and Anandi give some respect for the performance proceedings.

Kota Jayaram, Surabhi Prabhavati, Harsh Roshan, Ravi Verma and Poonam Bajwa form a mark between supporting artists, while big names – Nasar, Dalip Tahil – are nothing meaningful. Arab Kadali Everything in this was a heart touching drama, but in moments it is not enough. Better writing, imaginative film production could save the day, but all such expectations are submerged in water.

(Arab Kadali is streaming on Amazon Prime Video)

Published – 08 August, 2025 10:50 AM IST