Court Kacheri Cast/Actors: Pavan Raj Malhotra, Ashish Verma, Puneet Batra, Anandeshwar Dwivedi, Priyasha Bhardwaj & Others
Court Kacheri Director: Ruchir Arun
Court Kacheri Production House: Arunabh Kumar & The Viral Fever
Court Kacheri Release Date: 13th August, 2025
Court Kacheri Available On: SonyLIV
Court Kacheri Released/Available In Languages: Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam & Marathi
Court Kacheri Number Of Episodes: 5
Court Kacheri Episode Duration: 35 Minutes (Approx Each Episode)
Court Kacheri Critic Review:
Right from the way the title tumbles, you know that there’ll be a light touch in the telling. Creator and storywriter Arunabh Kumar does set out to tell a father-son story in a fun way, with much help from co-writer Puneet Batra who also pens a pile of humorous dialogues and does a turn as legal assistant Suraj.
Director Ruchir Arun with a peppy BG score by Ankur Thakkar, maintains that lively feeling, even going over the top at times. But the narrative style is clear. The essence is serious, the telling is light.
Hotshot defence lawyer Harish Mathur (Pavan Raj Malhotra) desires to bequeath his thriving practice to son Param (Ashish Verma), little gauging to what extent junior loathes the legal profession.
Believing in his maternal granddad’s cockeyed wisdom to ‘Beware of white coats (doctors) and black (lawyers)’, the reluctant young vakil’s hatred for all things legal builds into a blind irrationality against his father. It’s not as if Param’s heart beats for an alternate profession. All he wants is to put miles between him and his dad. Irrational because at no stage is Mathur authoritarian or unfeeling. Irrational also because in his quest to put down the legal profession as “working for criminals”, Param’s quite willing to palm off a forged degree to get a job in Dubai, help himself to dad’s money to sneak off to Canada or buy himself a police clearance certificate. Blind, because he’ll even work against his father in a case, in the belief that he’s on the side of what’s fair and right.
In fact, at one point, with Mathur’s loyal assistant Suraj (Puneet Batra) slyly trying to set up his own practice and Param making his own plans, you veer to the senior counsel’s side, wondering if being successful is such a big sin.
After creating chaos in the courtroom, when wisdom dawns on Param, it filters into a different kind of coming-of-age story that’s also told juxtaposing frivolity with earthy realities.
Occasionally, Ruchir Arun slips into the commonplace when he has Param confronting his father with heard-too-often charges like, “When did you last give me a hug?” The son ends up sounding petulant and ungrateful for dad had shown his softness during the neckband ceremony where he proudly and wordlessly put into Param’s pocket his own first ‘kamayi’ that he had treasured all these years in his wallet.
Pavan Malhotra carries Mathur like a real black coat soldier, dispensing wisdom in the sporadic asides to his juniors. “Bina zaroorat shakti pradarshan moorkh log karte hain,” he says at one stage, explaining why he smilingly drives home his point without a temper tantrum.
There are lines that stay true to the spirit of the legal world. A court assistant asks Param what he’s decided to be: ‘Judge ya Jethmalani?’ A cop slips ‘Manipur’ into the conversation, his synonym for ‘Money’.
But, as has become the norm, there is an overdose of ‘chu…’, ‘gaan…’, ‘bsdk’, especially when Suraj’s law school classmate JP (Amarjeet Singh) turns up to foul the air.
Weaving in the jugaad that works the system and a divorce case that gives it a touch of interesting authenticity, Ruchir sometimes allows Param to slide into unnecessary courtroom chaos to correct a wrong.
But Pavan Malhotra and Ashish Verma are in terrific form as father and son with Puneet Batra and Amarjeet Singh also playing their parts with a flair for the comic.
Court Kacheri – Watch Or Not?: A neat watch especially since it’s spread over only five episodes
Court Kacheri Review Score Rating: 3 out of 5 (i.e. 3/5)
Court Kacheri Official Trailer:
Credits: The Viral Fever
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