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Special Ops Review: A slightly disappointing portrayal of an undercover mission

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Picture Credit: Wikipedia Special Ops marks the digital debut of the acclaimed film director Neeraj Pandey. Special Ops is an eight-part web series that is streamed on Hotstar in the month of March. It is created for Hotstar's label Hotstar Specials with Kay Kay Menon leading the cast. Neeraj Pandey has produced some of the best Bollywood thrillers of recent times (A Wednesday, Special 26, Baby being the flag bearers) and has written this series along with Deepak Kingrani and Benazir Ali. He is also the co-director along with Shivam Nair and has Pandey’s Friday Storytellers as the production house. Pandey has shown his fascination for subjects based on terrorism and thrillers which is quite evident from the films which he made. Because of such feats, one might expect the series to be cleverly crafted with great twists. One might also expect the series to dive deep into the topic of terrorism and its different aspects like political, religious, economic and the rest