Siddhant is a socio-legal drama aired on Star One every wednesday at the 10 pm slot. Siddhanth is the story of a top-notch lawyer of the country Siddhanth Mehra. His meteoric rise to fame is less based on his professional brilliance and more of a result of his pragmatic approach to life and people. He believes in practicality and feels that morals and scruples should be left in cupboards because that’s the only way to succeed in life.
Intelligence on the edge of brilliance, his own personal arrogant charisma and complete absence of morals bulid his ladder to success. Suddenly, one day a case changes the entire course of Siddhanth’s life. Bsed on his first principle of law, ’’ truth is only what you can prove’’, he defends criminals and saves them too but in the process he defames and thus ruins the life of an innocent victim.
For the very first time, the innocence of that girl starts gnawing at his conscience and when out of sheer humiliation she committs suicide and her father takes out his anger on Siddhanth and is shot dead in front of his eyes, he jolts back to reality...the reality of being human.From here, begins Siddhanth’s journey of redemption, self-introspection and retrospection.He leaves his elite law firm and decides to fight a true cause left incomplete by his lawyer friend which has many legal and political connotations.
Siddhanth is not a white character, he has been a villain for half his life . The story tries to show that people are not just ’blacks’ and ’whites’ (in character), they are just human with all the errors of humanity intact. At this turning point of Siddhant’s life, his childhood sweetheart and close friend Shruti is murdered in a car accident which is devilishly plotted by her home minister husband, Mr. Saxena. Siddhant begins his investigation unaware of the fact that he is only about to uncover the murk of the political world.After his break-up with Alka, his live-in girlfriend, Siddhanth only has justice on his mind and inspite of all the problems, his ego, his perseverence and his arrogant brilliance keeps him going.
The lead actor Pawan Shankar has done a brilliant job as the arrogant charismatic lawyer on the path of redemption. The only other actors who match up to him are veteran TV artists playing the roles of Mr. Saxena and Qureshi.The serial also reflects the labyrinth that our political world is and its connections with the police department and the underworld.
Recently, Sai Deodhar has made her entry as a journalist who belives in the power of the pen rather than the glamour attached to the journo world. She is intrigued by Shruti’s case and that’s what brings her in contact with Siddhanth.She idolizes him and though she lacks his brilliance but matches him in her grit and fearlessness.
Not to forget, she secretly harbours a soft corner for him but his arrogance puts her off. Siddhanth is a comendable effort even though it lacks the intensity of ’’The Practice’’.All in all, I recommend it to people just for the protagonist. He is by far and arguably so the most powerful male protagonist on Indian Television.Full marks to him.The problem is that rest of the cast, excepting a few and the setting of the soap do not match his aura.