I recently watched the Bad Cop series on Disney+Hotstar and I wanted to share with you a review and an explanation of the ending.
Bad Cop Web Series Review 2024
Star Cast
The series features an interesting cast, including Gulshan Devaiah as Karan (The cop)/Arjun (a small thief), Anurag Kashyap as Kazbe, Harleen Sethi as Devika Naik, Aishwarya Sushmita as Kirki, and Saurabh Sachdeva as DCP Aarif Khan. It was directed by Aditya Datt and adapted by Rensil D’silva, with dialogues by Hussain Dalal and produced by Fremente India.
About Bad Cop
The newly premiered series on Disney+Hotstar is based on Bad Cop devised by RTL Television GmbH. It’s a German series starring David Rott and Alma Leiberg, in 2017.
The plot of Bad Cop
The series revolves around twin brothers, one’s a cop and another is a thief, not a big one.
Anurag Kashyap plays the villain in this newly aired series Kazbe, who’s an animal poacher. The series is about the investigation of the murder case of a news reporter, who was a close friend to the CIB officer Aarif Khan.
References in Bad Cop
Watching cops as a twin is not a new thing in India, we’ve watched Gopi-Kishan in the 90s starring Sunil Shetty and Karishma Kapoor.
From the character names, we Can say that it also hints at the blockbuster movie of both Khans “KARAN ARJUN”.
The scene where Anurag Kashyap as Kazbe bullies his niece for reciting A, B, C, and D is quite resemblance to Mirzapur.
Review of Bad Cop 2024
Series is a mixture of drama, crime, thriller, and humor that stands out in serious situations to make you laugh. After watching Gulshan Devaiah in Gun and Gulaabs and Badhaai Do, this was new coming from him, playing a cop.
We all know Anurag Kashyap is the mastermind behind Gang of Wasseypur but as an actor Anurag Kashyap is my new genre, he played a villain in the previous movie AK V/S AK starring Anil Kapoor and the guest appearance of Sonam Kapoor, and now as a terrifying villain; trading the valuable parts of wild animals from Mumbai’s central jail.
Harleen Seth is yet to be explored now, as only two episodes have aired, she has been in Broken but Beautiful and Kohrra.
Spoiler Alert Ahead
Plot Twist of Bad Cop
After revealing the locations of Kazbe, by one of his men. Karan went to that site with his colleague Aahil, but on the contrary, Kazbe planned to eliminate Karan out of his way.
Karan and Aahil were shot by Kazbe’s men.
Running from the mischief that led to him in the middle of a murder scene, Arjun stalked Karan to get help from him on the location of Kazbe.
Aahil was shot down, and Karan and Arjun ran for their life, hearing the siren of police, Kirki left, leaving Arjun behind. Both were shot down, 1 bullet to Arjun’s chest and two on the back of Karan.
Police saved Karan, not aware that he was Arjun who was also present at the shooting site. Devika sat in the ambulance with Karan who’s no other than the twin brother Arjun, on the other side DCP Aarif Khan
got the DNA match of the skin stuck in the reporter’s nail, that matched Arjun.
Trapped in the guilt of acting as his twin brother and not letting his sister-in-law know that He’s not Karan but Arjun, Karan is dead and drowned in the sea. He wrote a letter and left with Kirki to Gujrat, but destiny had something else planned for him.
Again, Kazbe’s niece attacks Karan (not Karan, Arjun) to get acceptance and respect from his uncle but he is doomed. At the port, Arjun had a change of heart and stayed as Karan to find out why he was murdered.
Arjun came back and Devika asked her “You went to meet Arjun?”.
DCP Aarif Khan knocks at the door.
Will Karan take revenge for his brother’s murder?
Or DCP Aarif Khan will find out that he’s as imposing as Karan and he’s Arjun?
