Sunflower Season 1 Review: Sunil Grover's Top Notch Performance On Director Vikas Bahl's OTT Debut

Sunflower Season 1 Review

Web Series: Sunflower Season 1

Director: Vikas Bahl & Rahul Sengupta

Sunflower Season 1 Cast:

Sunil Grover, Ranvir Shorey, Girish Kulkarni, Mukul Chadda, Ashish Vidyarthi, Radha Bhatt

Release Date:

Sunflower season 1, comprising eight episodes, was released on 11^th June 2021 on ZEE5.

Story & Performances:

ZEE5 is trying to provide a wide variety of content to its audiences.

Salman Khan’s "Radhe", Karan Singh Grover-Surbhi Jyoti Starrer "Qubool Hai 2.0", Amit Sadh’s "Jeet Ki Zidd", are a few movie and web series released on ZEE5 not too long ago.

Sunflower Season 1 marks the OTT debut of director Vikas Bahl. The story revolves around the murder of Mr. Raj Kapoor (Ashwin Kaushal) in a housing society in Mumbai named Sunflower.

Inspector S. Digendra (Ranvir Shorey) and Sub Inspector Chetan Tambe(Girish Kulkarni) arrived there for the investigation of this murder. There we were introduced to Sonu Singh(Sunil Grover), a salesman by profession known for his good and friendly behaviour with everyone.

Mr. Ahuja (Mukul Chadda), a lecturer, is also short-tempered and sometimes reacts impulsively. His wife Mrs. Ahuja(Radha Bhatt) is a housewife.

Dilip Iyer(Ashish Vidyarthi), aspires to be the chairman of Sunflower society, working tirelessly to keep the society safe and happy.

The sudden death of Raj Kapoor left the residents quite scared and worried. Through the initial investigation and inquiries, Mr. Ahuja and Sonu Singh were among the prime suspects.

We generally see in mystery thrillers that the writers kept the audience in the hunt to know about the murderer, but writer & director Vikas Bahl told the audience at the beginning about the killer.

After directing hit movies like Kangana Ranaut starring “Queen”, Shahid Kapoor-Alia Bhatt starrer “Shaandaar”, and Hrithik Roshan starrer “Super 30”, his OTT debut looked slow-paced, lacked the imagination, failed to utilize the actors like Ranvir Shorey, Girish Kulkarni, Mukul Chadda, Ashish Vidyarthi.

While talking about the performances we must say Sunil Grover delivered another very good performance, the role was quite challenging and he did it at ease. We have last seen him in a completely different role on Amazon Prime’s controversial web series “Tandav”.

Ranvir Shorey, Girish Kulkarni, Mukul Chadda, Ashish Vidyarthi also provided decent performances. Mukul Chadda was last seen in Vidya Balan starrer “Sherni” movie.