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The Sony LIV series Maharani, about an illiterate housewife who becomes Bihar’s chief minister after her husband’s arrest, set up the interesting journey of a woman thrown to political wolves. Openly inspired by Rabri Devi and Lalu Prasad Yadav, Subhash Kapoor’s show explored with as much astuteness as a series allows the political mess that is the north Indian state, picking from real events to create a degree of authenticity.
If Indian politics were not riddled with nepotism, rampant corruption and horse-trading, Maharani would seem implausible.
Alongside the shenanigans of powerful men, Maharani charts the evolution of Rani Bharti (Huma Qureshi), who goes from a gauche woman who stumbles over words at her swearing-in ceremony to a survivor of a jail term for the murder of her husband (Soham Shah) and then an avenger. Rani is surrounded by her three children, her Malayali aide Kaveri (Kani Kusruti), Mishra (Pramod Pathak) and the slimy opportunist Gauri Pandey (Vineet Kumar).
The second season from 2022 incisively depicted the formation of Jharkhand. Maharani still had some juice in the third season in 2024, even though the plotting contrived to give Rani a kind of omnipotence.
The third season got lost in a maze from which fourth instalment, directed by Puneet Prakash from a script…
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