4 min readUpdated: Mar 20, 2026 04:15 PM IST Jazz City review: The idea of a series set in early 70s Calcutta, revolving around a buzzy nightclub that everyone in the city flocks to, which is the epicentre of intrigue and spry spy-games, is something I thought I could easily get behind: Cal, in the decade when flower-children were doing their thing– there’s a framed photo of Dylan and Baez on which the camera rests for a fleeting second– night spots where the cool cats let down their hair, and the background of revolution: could it get any better? Apart from a sultry crooner who is the main draw apart from the unlimited booze, there are Pakistani soldiers, khadi-kurta-and-jhola clad Bengali freedom fighters, swaggering men-about-town, and a whole bunch of others in Jazz City, a ten-part show which should have been, by all rights, a cracker. Sadly, this Soumik Sen directed show belies its promise even as it unspools its first episode: the flat, amateurish staging, with most characters speaking their lines as pieces to …