The Night Manager review: A thrilling espionage drama
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By Prabhatha Rigobertha
February 23, 2023
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The Night Manager directed by Sandeep Modi, Priyanka Ghose, and Rukh Nabeel is an official adaption of the English web series with the same title.
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It begins with a prisoner escaping from a police van. From here, we move to the Oriental Pearl Hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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The audience is then introduced to the handsome night manager, Shaan Sengupta (Aditya Roy Kapoor).
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A tormented teenager trying to escape her husband, a criminal who is much older than her, seeks help from the night manager.
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The criminal husband is an associate of a businessman, Shelly (Anil Kapoor). Shaan takes the help of Lipika Saikia Rao (Tilottama Shome).
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He is unable to save the teenager and this leaves him shattered. Years later, he gets an opportunity to redeem himself. But, this time, the risk is higher.
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The very opening scene of the web series leaves the viewers excited about what will happen next. You are immediately hooked onto the world of Shaan.
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The series becomes even better with the introduction of
Tilottama Shome.
Her interactions with Shaan are one of the highlights of the series.
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The makers also deserve credit for how they connect this fictional story to the Rohingya genocide which, in turn, led to unrest in Bangladesh.
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Aditya Roy Kapoor and Anil Kapoor make for a worthy antagonist-protagonist pair.
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Saswata Chatterjee as gay has an interesting character but some of the stereotypical behaviour could have been avoided.
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