Rating: 3.5/5
Glory does not ease you in gently. From its very first episode, it drops you into Shaktigarh’s dusty boxing world and dares you to keep up, and for six episodes, you absolutely will.
Director Karan Anshuman weaves a murder mystery through a fractured family and a crumbling boxing legacy. The grip is strong enough to make you cancel plans. Furthermore, the cast does not just perform; they inhabit this world completely.
Divyenndu does not just act in this show; he haunts it. Something raw and unhinged lives behind his eyes here, darker than Munna Bhaiya and far more unpredictable.
Moreover, his chemistry with Sayani Gupta is electric, and though the writing does not always give her enough to work with, she remains first-rate in every scene she owns. Pulkit Samrat, meanwhile, brings a quieter kind of power, grounded, restrained, and genuinely surprising in the emotional scenes.
Additionally, Kashmira Pardeshi is the stealth weapon of the entire season, complex, layered, and the kind of performance that launches careers.
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Suvinder Vicky plays Raghubir Singh, a 1986 Asian Games silver medallist turned obsessive boxing coach, and as always, he communicates entire oceans of guilt without a word. Consequently, Glory’s cast alone makes it worth every minute.
The problem, unfortunately, is the final 15 minutes. Glory earns your complete trust across six episodes, and then the murder reveal arrives and breaks it.
The resolution feels disconnected from everything the show carefully built, as though the answer to the central mystery belongs to a different, lesser show. As a result, the final boxing punch, the one the whole series winds up for, lands wide. Furthermore, it is the kind of ending that does not just disappoint, it slightly recolours everything before it.
Nevertheless, Glory is absolutely worth your weekend. So watch it for Divyenndu, stay for Pulkit Samrat and Kashmira Pardeshi, and make your peace with an ending that does not quite match the brilliance of what came before it.
Because for five and a half episodes, this show is as good as Indian OTT gets.
Should You Watch Glory?
There is a version of Glory that belongs among the finest Indian crime dramas ever made. For six episodes, you are watching that version.
Then the climax arrives, rushed, unconvincing, and completely unworthy of what preceded it, and that version quietly disappears.
A good watch, a great cast, and one frustrating finale. Glory is worth streaming, if only to watch Divyenndu remind everyone exactly what he is capable of.
Watch Glory streaming now on Netflix.
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