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Aarya Season 3 review: Sushmita Sen, Ram Madhvani don't skip a beat, add more style, pulse and heart to this drama

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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.Let's get the only gripe I had with Aarya  Season 3 out of the way: It's too short. Disney+ Hotstar is going The Night Manager way with the  Ram Madhvani,   Sushmita Sen  show and would release the third instalment in two parts. If part 1, now streaming, is anything to go by, part 2 would be a long yet worthy wait. Aarya's transformation When we left Aarya last season, she'd become a don. The first man she gunned down to death was her biological father. She trembled at how instinctively she could pull the trigger, not because of who he was, but merely because he was a living, breathing individual. Season 3 starts with Aarya taking the reigns so to say. The first episode kicks off with a recap set to her dead husband Tej's memorial song, Bade Acche Lagte Hain, before it gets drowned out by a more intense,...