Mirzapur: Dystopian fantasy that borrows a little too much from real world

It exaggerates everything about a violent small town even as it brilliantly captures its nuances

Amazon Prime’s new original, Mirzapur, is set in a Hindi hinterland where people are born with an unparalleled appetite for violence. 

Throats are slit and heads blown off .

Never mind the bloodshed, life goes on.

The city is a monarchy masquerading as a democracy. It is governed by a simple principle: he who kills the most rules the roast. The winner of this contest — we are told — is the royal family of the Tripathis. Akhandanand urf Kaleen bhaiya urf the king of Mirzapur, played by Pankaj Tripathi, is a second-generation crime lord at the helm. An effortlessly ruthless businessman