Release Year – 2020

Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Cast – Abhay Deol, Pankaj Kapoor, Piyush Mishra, Ritika Anand 

Director – Shailender Vyas

Writers – Shailender Vyas

Story line –

JL 50 follows a CBI officer, Shantanu Das (Abhay), who is tasked with investigating a plane crash. It turns into a top secret mission as they realize that the plane that crashed somewhere in northern Bengal took off from a Kolkata (then Calcutta) airport 35 years ago.

Our Views –

India doing a Sci-Fi movie with a good taste is really rare. But here they really went out of the way and created a masterpiece. JL50 talks about a very unique subject which is rarely talked about in any other Indian movie and that is Time Travel. Though the web series is based on a real story, they have very beautifully linked it with Time Travel. 

Pankaj Kapoor says “Time never moves, Time is always present” in the beginning of the series and it seems on this basis they have explained the whole series. Pankaj Kapoor aka Professor Das appears to be very fishy right from the start. An airplane goes missing with some important delegates in it and in order to investigate it, a plane which was lost 35 years ago is recovered (with 2 survivors).

Abhay Deol aka Shantanu keeps the story rolling forward as being the lead CBI investigator. He is not a believer of time travel until all the other possibilities are not ruled out. He was left at an orphanage and he never got to get closure about his parents but due to time travel he got to know that the survivor of the time travel actually turns out to be his mother.  

It explains a time travel mystery with the sources of the explanation which dates back to the times of Emperor Ashoka and later solved by a scientist in 1984. This web series is on Sony LIV with 4 episodes each and not more than 35 min each is easy to watch in a go. And it’s definitely highly recommended.