Storyline

In Jodhpur, Radhe Mohan strives to preserve the legacy of classical music started by his grandfather, while elsewhere Tamanna tries to reshape her musical identity by starting afresh.

The young love story between Radhe and Tamanna was the main storyline for Bandish Bandits initially. Keeping them apart this time around means that the show ends up taking too much on its hands and lacks the skill to maneuver the same deftly. There are 10 episodes This season, but the first part keeps jumping between two places, Jodhpur and Kasol, without making a good connection between the two stories. By the time we come around to the second part of the show, where Tamanna’s college band faces off against the Rathod family, the audience has lost both patience and interest.

Being a show whose narrative is periodically pushed ahead with the help of a lengthy soundtrack, Bandhish Bandits’ emotional weight is often assigned to these songs. Therefore, it comes as a surprise that the script also chooses to overly dramatize the rest of the show. The near-constant pauses in the script for platitudes often end up distracting from the pathos of the moment.