Search Tandav aims for subtlety and nuance, but gets very little of it right It never rises above being a derivative — and dull — drama on everything that we have always known about Indian politics Priyanka Roy | | Published 18.01.21, 02:07 AM Tandav kicks off with a farmers’ protest, a zeitgeist of the times we live in. Consistently, through its nine-episode runtime, the series rests on art imitating reality. But what could have been a stark and stinging look at modern politics in the power corridors of Delhi often turns out to be a Bollywood-styled drama characterised by political players who conveniently swing ‘left’ or ‘right’, governments that are formed and broken against the backdrop of horse trading and cow politics, and stretches of overdramatised dialogue with the word ‘