The new Zee5 series Bloody Brothers, directed by Ali, is the latest Hindi remake of a Western series. The original is BBC’s two-season Guilt, a terrific Fargo-esque thriller set in Edinburgh, Scotland. Like most Hindi remakes of Western series, Ooty-set Bloody Brothers too is a faithful remake with zero local flavour. On top of that, Ali’s limp and unimaginative direction makes Bloody Brothers hard to sit through, which amazed me, given Guilt was so incessantly watchable. (Also read: Rudra The Edge of Darkness review: Ajay Devgn and Raashii Khanna are superb in well-made crime series).Bloody Brothers Season 1 Download.
At least with the Luther-inspired Rudra, which was just as dedicated a scene-by-scene remake, Rajesh Mapuskar’s direction had enough personality and verve to make the series its own beast. But Bloody Brothers is spectacularly second-rate and is only salvaged by its excellent lead actors, Jaideep Ahlawat and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub. Bloody Brothers felt as if it could have been directed by just about anybody, an assistant or a second unit director.As it is, Ooty is a hill station which is sufficiently atmospheric for a quaint mystery, which is how Blood Brothers/Guilt begins, but as the story slowly gets more complex, and gangsters get involved, Ooty starts to seem quite awkward.
Hotshot lawyer Jagjeet (Jaideep Ahlawat) and his bookstore-running brother Daljeet (Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub) hit the elderly Samuel Alvarez (Asrani, in a cameo) with their car just outside his house while returning from a wedding reception. Samuel is instantly dead. Jagjeet and Daljeet cover up the crime; they quietly drag Samuel back to his room and on discovering that he was ailing from cancer, the brothers are confident that the police will conclude that Samuel died a natural death.