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Sushmita Sen and Ram Madhvani go beyond the sacrificial mother trope to make the character of Aarya both a dreaded gangster and a tragic hero in Season 3.
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Aarya Season 3 is too short, but Disney+ Hotstar to release it in two parts, like The Night Manager.
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When we left Aarya last season, she'd become a don. The first man she gunned down to death was her biological father.
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Sushmita transforms from the scared mother that she was in the first two seasons to the roaring lioness she is in Season 3.
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Yet she makes the transformation convincing and organic by infusing her performance with an authority that stems from freshly acquired power.
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It's a challenging transition for an actor whose character's strength has been her vulnerability and emotional transparency.
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Sushmita, however, pitches the new, empowered Aarya in a very dramatic way: as if she's enjoying a new game.
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Her metamorphosis is aided by an all-black power dressing. She's mostly captured at obtuse angles as if to avoid the camera looking at her directly in the eye.
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Because it's in her eyes that she reveals the fear, weighed down by newfound power.
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