Hostages Review

Hotstar Special’s web series Hostages cuts to the chase. In its opening scene, Mira Anand, her husband and two children are being held at gunpoint. Mira, a doctor, is faced with an impossible choice: kill the chief minister during an upcoming surgery or watch her family die.

Directed by Sudhir Mishra (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Daas Dev) and with a cast that includes Tisca Chopra, Ronit Roy, Parvin Dabbas, Ashim Gulati, Dalip Tahil and Mohan Kapoor.

The crux of the story is where Dr Mira has been taken hostage and they want her to misperform the surgery on the chief minister. But this is also a story of Mira and her husband, of Mira’s loyalty to her profession, of Mira’s daughter’s romantic relationship, of a father and son, a man and a woman, a man and a brother, a villain and his girlfriend.