Mirzapur Season 3 Release: Guns, Goons, Gaalis, Gore, Gaslighting And Yes, Golu

Mirzapur 3: In one of the earlier episodes of Season 3, actor Lilliput (who is never seen in a standing position) tells Vijay Varma during a violent car ride, “Tumhare bhasha ko kya ho gaya hai?” Actually, Liliput should have heard how the characters spoke in the first two seasons. Mother and sisters never felt more unsafe.

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The language this time in Mirzapur is far less picturesque and graphic. The content and mood remain predominantly unstoppable. Everyone wants to grab a piece of the unconstitutional siyaasat. Every character is incurably corrupt and bloodthirsty, barring lawyer Ramakant Pandit (Rajesh Tailang, excellent), who remains a paragon of virtue in a country of badasses.

Tailang’s Ramakant chooses to go to jail when all the deviants of Plumerland offer to bail him out. Instead of taking the offer as any sensible man would do, Ramakant rots in jail and bears terror attacks and taunts.

Cheesy, yeah. But that is the way the cookie crumbles in this part of the world.

There is a routine kind of raunchiness in Mirzapur. Characters curse, abuse, and release bodily fluids anywhere they fancy, including people’s faces. If you recall the first season, there was the scandalous Beena Tripathi (Rasika Dugal), who got impregnated by the househelp. Unrepentant, Beena had declared about her impregnator, “He does it (the sex act) for such a long duration!”

Scandal sticks. Mirzapur thrives on shock value. At one point during a street fight in Season 3, a man’s head is severed on camera—none of that discreet turning away. That’s for the ninnys. This is no place for the squeamish. Hurling into the violence of rural Uttar Pradesh, Mirzapur shows us a world completely liberated from the law.

There is a paunchy, ineffectual cop (Manu Rishi) who is like a band-aid on a gaping wound. Pankaj Tripathi’s Kaleen Bhaiyya remains largely under the weather. He has little to do except moan in pain and make ineffectual protest noises. This character has clearly had its day.

Shweta Tripathi’s Golu and Ali Fazal’s Guddu are all over the place, building for themselves the kind of coarse karma that can only take them one way. Strangely, Golu, after strutting around in denim jeans and her intimidating swag (she remains unfazed even when, at one point, a sleazy politician threatens to rape her), disappears. Officially, she is ‘kidnapped’ and Guddu goes berserk in trying to find her.

Ali Fazal gnashes his teeth so hard that you fear for his jaw. There is too much of him and Shweta Tripathi, too little of Rasika Dugal, Pankaj Tripathi, and Ishita Talwar, who are as convincing as a chief minister as Rakhi Sawant would be as Joan of Arc.

The most interesting character this season is Bharat Tyagi (Anjum Sharma), who stays sinister without resorting to paan masala uncouthness. Quite often, we don’t know what Bharat is up to. We even see him flirting discreetly with the aforementioned Madame CM. I suspect the show’s writers are still figuring out what to do with Bharat next.

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It’s all back in black, more pickled and snazzy than before. The third season of Mirzapur takes us over that bumpy, murderous road that we have traveled before. There are no surprises this time. But director Gurmeet Singh quickly sets the tilt right when the pace threatens to slacken. Laden with bestial violence and lurid subplots, with characters who swear revenge like junkies snorting cocaine, Mirzapur is the pulp equivalent of an over-the-hill whore powdering her nose and puffing up her chest to look younger than she actually is. But it is nonetheless a brutal if brittle, but enjoyable revisitation of the badlands.

Munna is much missed, though. Probably because Divyendu was the best actor in the series.