keshav pandit is Good weekend viewing

The first episode of Keshav Pandit was unlike anything Ekta Kapoor had made so far. Just when I was all set to blow the trumpet
, my excitement ebbed watching the second and third ones. Keshav Pandit, based on the crime stories of celebrated Hindi writer Ved Prakash Sharma is about a young boy, Madhav Shastri who lives in Allahabad with his parents and sister till his neighbour destroys his family over a dispute, puts Madhav behind bars, rapes his sister, kills his mother and compels Madhav to go on the run…fortunately, the horrific incidents doesn't turn him into a criminal but into a savior. Having spent years in jail (only to read up law books) on charge of petty crimes like travelling without ticket, Madhav turns into Keshav Pandit, now a young man who knows the law like the back of his hands, rattles off the various Indian Penal Code sections and is forever ready to save anyone falsely accused in any case. Supporting him is Saira (irritating to the core), the daughter of a top cop in whose jail Keshav had served his term and who trusts him implicitly and Mangal, who Keshav had saved from a court case in which he was falsely implicated.
The makers have ensured the one hour weekly drama-thriller is fast paced and has its moments. The first episode was a rocker with the writer-director team neatly telling the journey of a man from Madhav Shastri to Keshav Pandit. But the subsequent episodes haven't been able to cash in on the impact of the first. The cases that Keshav solves are nothing we haven't seen before (blame the long-running CID). They are straight out of those Hindi novels you find on streets with unintentionally funny titles and women with long, painted pink nails and seedy-looking men on cover jackets! But we guess, both Keshav and the writers are finding their feet.