We are introduced to Haroun Shah Ali Beig in the 2010s, then flashed back to the 1980s when he was a child, to the 1990s when he began his political odyssey, and to the 2000s when he did a balancing act between consciousness and power, venturing into the present before returning to the past. like the first season of rangbaaz (2018) which lovingly followed Prakash Shukla (Saqib Saleem), a notorious gang leader from Gorakhpur, in Uttar Pradesh, and the second season, phirse (2019), which attempted to airbrush a Rajasthan Rajput gangster, Anandpal Singh (Jimmy Shergill), once again we have multiple timelines and a story of a friendship soured between politics and reckless bartering of bullets.
Our gaze instead turns to Haroun Shah Ali Beig (Vineet Kumar Singh), who is modeled after Mohammad Shahabuddin, one of Yadav’s closest associates.īeig is the Bahubali of Bihar, “Jo zameen ki raksha aur khauf ko kayam rakhe” (he who protects the land and inspires fear in people’s hearts). Here, Yadav seems almost desperate and irresponsible, in a story that has no room for more than one hero. In the third season of rangbaaz the character of Lalu Prasad Yadav (Sudhanva Deshpande), although central in the public imagination, is pushed to the periphery, as he was in maharani. Last year we had maharani, a SonyLIV show starring Huma Qureshi, which attempted to look at the legacy of Lalu Prasad Yadav from a suspicious and sideways perspective, that of his wife Rabri Devi, who was appointed chief minister when her husband was thrown behind bars.
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