Farzi cast: Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Amol Palekar, Kay Kay Menon, Raashii Khanna, Zakir Hussain
Farzi directors: Raj and DK
About Farzi Web Series
A small-time artist working out of his grandfather’s printing press has designed the ultimate con job – a crime uniquely suited to him – and gets pulled into the murky, high stakes world of all that it demands. A fiery, unorthodox task force officer has made it his mission to rid the country of the menace this poses in this fast-paced, edgy one-of-a-kind thriller
Kapoor plays Sunny, a gifted sketch artist whose dearly beloved ‘naanu’ (Amol Palekar) owns a mouldering printing press and a ‘patrika’, more pamphlet than magazine, called Kranti. But Sunny, having survived a troubled childhood, has witnessed no revolution. All he and his ‘bachpan-ka-dost’ Firoz (Bhuvan Arora) have experienced, is privation. The constant humiliations of having too little make them ripe for a fall into the snake-pit where such vipers as Mansoor Dalal (Kay Kay Menon), a counterfeiter kingpin, lie coiled, waiting to strike.
The other main track belongs to the law enforcement unit, headed by the hot-headed Michael Vednayagam (Vijay Sethupathi), which is busy tracking the dastards responsible for this ‘financial terrorism’. Flooding India with ‘farzi’ 2000 rupee notes will ruin the economy, thunders one worthy. More wisdom on India’s enemies is shared out loud. The series slips in the fact of demonetisation, and of how corruption was meant to be curbed with the new notes, by slyly giving us corrupt, power-hungry netas (one is an MLA from, um, Gujarat; the other one, played by Zakir Hussain, gets a lot more screen time). An enthusiastic rookie (Raashii Khanna), also a smart cookie, joins the ‘farzi’ note busters, and often strikes off on her own, despite being explicitly told not to play a lone hand.