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Maharani Season 4 review: The bleeding battleground of Politics!
‘Maharani Season 4 review’ - Huma Qureshi breathes fire and revenge in the intense political battlefield drenched in treachery, tension and ambitions.
Maharani Season 4 synopsis
By the time you arrive at the fourth season of the much acclaimed, SONY LIV’s flagship web series, Maharani, you would already realize that Politics and Dirty are pleonasms – one needn’t stress Politics as dirty, it carries the tag by default! Centered on the politics in the state of Bihar, the show unfolds as a daring cocktail of treachery, tension and ambitions thereby making its democracy a fertile battleground of fracas between the parties.
This time, it’s both personal and political – for Rani Bharti (Huma Qureshi) who’s reigning as the CM of Bihar after serving a three-year jail term. While her credentials of ‘Naya Bihar ka Pehredaar’ stay pristine with an added feather of the “Annual Person of the Year’ award to her repertoire, Rani navigates a treacherous political journey from state to the center and locks horns with the unscrupulous PM, Shri Sudhakar Sriniwas Joshi (Vipin Sharma).
In her bid to throw out the regime of Joshi, her political aspirations soar high but the familial balance sinks and her party suffers. Rani treads a tumultuous terrain along with her daughter, Roshni (an amazing Shweta Basu Prasad) and son, Jay (a terrific Shardul Bharadwaj, Eeb Allay Ooo, Kuttey) in carving their future and juxtaposing with that of Bihar, but her dynamics with confidantes – Kaveri (Kani Kusruti) and Mishraji (Pramod Pathak) sees cracks.
With Maharani, show creator Subhash Kapoor offers an intricate case study of power games. Scams, scandals, money laundering, vote banks find prominent places and faces akin to the current political scenario of India and elections countdown. Stakes escalate with dense deceptions and political warfare, but Kapoor never loses sight of the characters and their motives.
Director Puneet Prakash drapes his protagonist with grit, gumption and guts, while plugging-in new characters (Rajeshwari Sachdev, Sarah Hashmi, Darsheel Safary, Saddam Hussain) into the slate. Huma is in solid form - she holds her part with tremendous authority while embracing the courage of a righteous political figure, unfazed about the gray strands of hair and thick glasses. Maharani closely examines the decisions that you take and the price that you pay for them.
The writing is sharp and the screenplay is gripping – each scene is crafted with attention, accentuated with a meticulous background score and powered with a host of powerful performances. Seasoned veterans - Vipin Sharma, Vineet Kumar, Atul Kumar and Pramod Pathak deliver compelling performances, while Kani and Shweta stay earnest to their craft. It is Shardul Bhardwaj’s natural turnaround as the naïve and volatile Jay that gives Maharani the required gravitas in dabbling with loyalties and ties.
Maharani Season 4 review – final words
The ending gives a solid impetus for the next season. Rani Bharti will again plunge into the game of personal vengeance and political vendetta. I just can't wait!
Directed by Puneet Prakash, produced by Kangra Talkies Pvt. Ltd., and created by Subhash Kapoor, Maharani 4 is streaming on Sony LIV from November 07, 2025.
Ahwaan Padhee, is an IT Techie/Business Consultant by profession and a film critic/cinephile by passion, is also associated with Radio Playback as well, loves writing and conducting movie quizzes. More By Ahwaan Padhee