Brinda Review | Trisha | Indrajith Sukumaran | Ravindra Vijay | Anand Sami | Franka Pesuvom

streaming on Sony LIV First-time director Surya Manoj Vangala’s Telugu web series Brinda, which marks actor Trisha Krishnan’s entry into the digital space, features the actor without most of the trappings of mainstream commercial cinema. Cast in the titular role, she portrays a brooding insomniac cop popping anxiety pills, grappling with ghosts from her past, facing gender discrimination at the workplace with quiet resilience and working with an unflinching sense of purpose. In the eight-episode series streaming on Sony LIV, approximately 40 minutes duration each, she smiles fleetingly on a couple of occasions. The narrative gives her and her co-star Ravindra Vijay, a colleague at the police station, ample scope to portray troubled characters, even as the crime they are investigating gets darker at every turn. Brinda tries to go beyond the whodunnit hook points. It blends the personal and professional journeys of its principal characters, while also trying to discuss a tricky socio-cultural issue.