'Mai' trailer: Sakshi Tanwar goes rogue, uncovering daughter's death mystery
Popular television actor Sakshi Tanwar will take on the vengeful mother avatar in Netflix's upcoming series Mai. Backed by Clean Slate Filmz, the show will follow Sheel Chaudhary's (Tanwar) journey as she gets entrapped in a world of crime, corruption, and violence. Created by Atul Mongia, the show has been helmed by him and Anshai Lal. Its trailer was dropped on Thursday.
Why does this story matter?
Tanwar, in her web-series return, looks absolutely fitting as a seemingly naive woman, who guilts herself on not being a good-enough mother but doesn't think twice before going into threatening situations. She is joined in the series by a group of talented actors, namely, Raima Sen, Wamiqa Gabbi, Vivek Mushran, Anant Vidhaat, Seema Pahwa, Ankur Ratan, Prashant Narayan, and Vaibhav Raj Gupta.
What do we get from the trailer?
The clip begins with Sheel asking her daughter, Supriya, if everything is alright in the middle of the road. Just as Supriya—using sign language—was about to tell Sheel what had happened to her, she gets crushed to death by a truck. Shocked and horrified, Sheel tries to figure out what did Supriya go through before the accident, and whether her death was an accident.
Here's more on Sheel
Playing a middle-class middle-aged woman, Sheel soon begins sniffing something amiss with how the court handled everything and takes matters into her own hands. We see her taking on different get-ups to snoop around and get entrenched into a far more dangerous condition than she could have imagined. Yet, powered by sheer "maa ka pyaar," Sheel crosses walls, thrashes antagonists, and kicks asses.
Catch trailer here
Theme similar to 'MOM' or 'Maatr'
Judging by the theme of the series and the avenging mother storyline, we're reminded of Sridevi's MOM (2017) or Raveena Tandon's Maatr (2017). So it will be interesting to see if there's something different for this Netflix show to offer. It releases on April 15.
Lead character named after show creator's mother
Mongia talked about how his mother's struggles to juggle side-careers and the family have helped him inspire the character of Sheel. In fact, the lead character has been named after his mother's maiden name. Coming to the setting, the story will be set around two Chaudhary brothers living in adjacent houses in the same colony. Sheel will be the wife of the younger brother.
