Taali review: Sushmita Sen tries her best to rescue one-note biographical drama on Shreegauri Sawant

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 Taali review: Created by Arjun Singgh Baran and Kartk Nishandar, JioCinema's new series Taali sees Sushmita Sen essay trans activist Shreegauri Sawant.In a scene that arrives late in the new series Taali, a gay NGO worker Navin (Ankur Bhatia) tells trans activist Gauri (Sushmita Sen) that the discrimination he faces is nowhere near what she has to live with, day in and day out. Yet in no way does the show provide a context for what Navin's struggles look like. For Taali, it doesn't matter at all. It is this tepid, unfair comparison of queer existence and their realities, that washes over the sanitized biographical drama that is Taali. (Also read: Taali creators Arjun, Kartk break silence on casting Sushmita Sen instead of a trans actor as Shreegauri Sawant)

Taali is available to stream on Jio Cinema.
Taali is available to stream on Jio Cinema.

Created by Arjun Singgh Baran and Kartk D Nishandar, and directed by Ravi Jadhav, Taali revolves around the life of transgender activist Shreegauri Sawant. The six-episode long series rests itself squarely on the shoulders of actor Sushmita Sen, who plays Sawant with expected grace and radiance. Yet, despite her noble efforts, Taali struggles to rise above its formulaic template of a biographical drama. Written by Kshitij Patwardhan, Taali is somehow stuck in constantly viewing its subject from a narrow, formally manipulative lens.

The premise

We follow Gauri through flashbacks as she presents her linear recollection in the form of a Ted-talk inspired, chapter wise memorabilia for an interview to a prototype white journalist named Amanda (Maya Rechal Mcmanus). She tells how she was Ganesh first, an effeminate schoolboy (played by Krutika Rao) bullied for saying that when she grows up she wants to become a mother. Ganesh's rigid, conservative police-inspector father (Nandu Madhav) even takes her to a sex clinic to prescribe hormonal pills. The decision to run away from home becomes the only way out for her after a point.

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