Glory Review: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ (3/5)
“Glory” gets a 3.2 out of 5 for its strong performances, gritty setup, and unique blend of boxing and mystery. While the concept is promising, predictable storytelling and uneven pacing prevent it from becoming a knockout series.
Language: Hindi
Director: Karan Anshuman
Cast: Divyenndu, Pulkit Samrat, Suvinder Vicky, Jannat Zubair, Ashutosh Rana, Sikandar Kher, Sayani Gupta, Yashpal Sharma, Kashmira Pardeshi and Kunal Thakur
Not every good web series needs a big budget or a plot twist every ten minutes. Glory understands that, and it’s better for it. Set against the dusty, no-nonsense world of boxing in Haryana, the show takes its time building something that feels grounded — a story about family, obsession, and the ugly price of chasing a dream.
It’s not a perfect series by any stretch. But it’s the kind of show that pulls you in quietly and keeps you there longer than you might expect.
What sets Glory apart from the flood of OTT revenge dramas is that it doesn’t pick a lane and stay in it. It’s part sports drama, part family saga, part crime mystery — and while that mix occasionally works against it, it also gives the show a texture that feels different from the usual fare. It doesn’t moralize. It puts situations in front of you and lets you sit with them.
At the center of everything is Raghubir Singh — a boxing coach who has given his entire life to the sport and wants Olympic gold more than he wants almost anything else, including the comfort of his own children. Suvinder Vicky plays him, and honestly, this might be the best reason to watch the show. He doesn’t shout or lecture. He communicates through stillness, through the tension in his jaw, through the way he looks at his sons like they’re both his greatest hope and his biggest disappointment. It’s a deeply controlled performance that carries real weight.
His sons, Dev and Ravi, come home under circumstances that are far from happy. Dev, played by Divyenndu, is the unpredictable one — restless, a little dangerous, and carrying something he hasn’t fully dealt with. Pulkit Samrat’s Ravi is the counterweight — more measured, more emotionally accessible. Together they create a sibling dynamic that feels lived-in, full of things left unsaid and old wounds that haven’t healed.
The story itself kicks off with a shocking incident involving Nihal Singh, a promising young boxer, and Gudiya, the family’s sister. From there, things unravel slowly — secrets surface, loyalties shift, and the family is forced to reckon with a past it has been trying to bury.
The wider cast fills things out well. Sikandar Kher brings a coiled tension to his role. Ashutosh Rana does what Ashutosh Rana always does — commands every scene he’s in with quiet authority. Sayani Gupta, as a journalist threading her way through the mystery, gives the narrative a useful outside perspective. Kashmira Pardeshi adds a layer of unpredictability that keeps you guessing about where her character is really headed.
The boxing sequences are well-handled — physical, sharp, and shot with enough energy to feel authentic. But the show is more interested in what happens outside the ring than inside it, which is a reasonable creative choice, though it does mean the sport itself sometimes feels like a backdrop rather than a subject.
The biggest issue with Glory is that its mystery isn’t mysterious enough. The murder at the heart of the story starts giving itself away earlier than it should, and once you’ve made your guess, the middle episodes feel like they’re just confirming what you already suspect. The pacing suffers for it — there are stretches, especially around the midpoint, where the show is juggling too many threads and not quite managing all of them.
But here’s the thing — even when Glory loses focus, it doesn’t lose you entirely. The characters are drawn well enough that you stay invested in what happens to them. There’s a rawness to the whole thing, a willingness to sit in discomfort rather than rush toward resolution, that keeps it from feeling generic.
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The Haryana setting is more than just visual texture. It shapes how these characters think, how they talk, what they believe about family and honor, and what it means to be a man. The show earns its backdrop rather than just borrowing the aesthetic.
And underneath all the boxing and the mystery, Glory is really asking one question — how far is too far? At what point does ambition stop being a virtue and start hollowing you out? It doesn’t answer that cleanly, and it’s not trying to. It just shows you people living with the consequences of the choices they made when they thought winning was the only thing that mattered.
By the final episodes, the punches and the drama have given way to something quieter — a story about consequences, and about whether the people left standing at the end got what they deserved.
It’s not always clean. But it lands.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐☆ (3/5)