Bhanwar has a concept of time travel which is mixed with crime and suspense. Ranvir and Kanika Makhija played by Karanvir Bohra and Priya Banerjee respectively are a young couple who get a huge amount of money from the bank and are now trying to invest the amount. They buy a luxurious apartment from Sam, a shade broker played by Teejay Sidhu at half the price.
The apartment is meant to be an escape from the clutches of law but after settling in the house they realize that something is wrong with the house. It seems haunted to them. As the couple dive deeper in the middle shown by the house they face a horrifying reality. Bhanwar has been made entirely under lockdown, uses multiple concepts like time travel, ouija boards, haunting and brings out a complex story with eight fifteen-minute episodes.
Bhanwar is a good attempt on Karanvir’s part on showing his creativity as he is the writer and director of the show. However, the tediousness of the story lets it down. The lockdown gives a compartmentalised restriction to the narrative. It becomes a task to execute a tough story with minimum space, tools and manpower.
Bhanwar carves out a narrative only to reach eight episodes. The mixture of genres, repetitive plot, loopholes in the flow of story and a failed attempt at creating an intrigue out of nothing brings the show down. The positive aspect of Bhanwar is ultra-short episodes. It would have been otherwise a bland watch if the episodes stretched any further. The short runtime makes one hooked to the web series and see how things end up.
Bhanwar is a good venture which could have been better with fewer loopholes and more polish and panache. The cinematography and editing of the show have been done very well. The background music of the series is ear piercing but this is how it happens in the supernatural and horror genre. The flow of the episodes is very jerky and you can watch it only if you have a liking for supernatural and horror otherwise it is better to skip the series.
