Director - Karan Anshuman, Kanishk Varma
Cast - Pulkit Samrat, Divyenndu, Suvinder Vicky, Ashutosh Rana, Sikander Kher, Sayani Gupta, Kashmira Pardeshi, Vishal Vashishtha, Zakir Hussain, Yashpal Sharma, Jannat Zubair Rahmani, Kunal Thakur
Episode – 7
Platform – Netflix 
 
Glory enters the crowded space of small-town crime thrillers with boxing rings, fractured families, khap politics and violence stitched into its DNA. Set in the fictional Haryana town of Shaktigarh, the seven-episode series attempts to combine sports drama, family conflict, murder mystery and social commentary into one sprawling narrative. At its core lies a story about ambition, masculinity and emotional damage, but the show often struggles under the weight of trying to become too many things at once.
The series opens exactly the way modern streaming thrillers now seem contractually obligated to — with bodies dropping within the first few minutes. In fact, Glory wastes barely nine minutes before delivering multiple deaths, immediately announcing itself as a world driven by brutality and tension. The atmosphere is sweaty, volatile and aggressively masculine, where boxing rings become extensions of emotional warfare rather than merely sporting arenas.
 
At the centre of the chaos is Suvinder Vicky as Raghubir Singh, a respected yet emotionally destructive boxing coach whose obsession with Olympic glory leaves deep scars on his family. Suvinder Vicky once again proves why he remains one of the most commanding performers working today. He brings both menace and tragic vulnerability to Raghubir, making him feel like a man who genuinely believes ambition justifies emotional cruelty. The show works best whenever it stays close to him and the damage his relentless pursuit of success inflicts on his sons.
 
Divyendu Sharma delivers a solid performance as Dev, carrying years of resentment and unresolved anger beneath his swagger. His scenes with Raghubir carry emotional weight because the bitterness feels lived-in rather than theatrically exaggerated. Pulkit Samrat also gets an opportunity to break away from his polished screen image, throwing himself convincingly into the physically demanding boxing sequences. The strained relationship between the brothers and their father remains the emotional backbone of the series, and it is easily the strongest material the show has to offer.
 
The boxing portions themselves are staged effectively. The fights feel raw, exhausting and painful rather than stylized for glamour. There is a physical heaviness to the action that works well within the gritty tone of the series. Some training and ring sequences genuinely capture the emotional desperation attached to the sport, particularly in a world where boxing becomes the only visible escape route from social and economic suffocation.
 
Unfortunately, Glory repeatedly undermines its own strengths by overcrowding the narrative with unnecessary subplots and exaggerated twists. Every time the series appears ready to settle into a grounded family drama or sports thriller, it abruptly introduces another layer — corrupt cops, trafficking rings, prostitution rackets, honour killings, closeted sexuality, manipulative femme fatales and cartoonishly violent gangsters. The result is a story that constantly loses emotional focus because it refuses to trust its strongest central conflict.
 
The supporting characters further highlight this inconsistency. Sayani Gupta’s investigative journalist feels oddly inserted into the narrative without enough grounding in the world around her. Ashutosh Rana and Sikandar Kher bring intensity to their eccentric characters, but the writing often pushes them toward exaggerated theatrics rather than believable menace. Meanwhile, Yashpal Sharma stands out largely because he feels organically rooted within the Haryanvi setting, carrying the dialect and social texture far more naturally than many others in the ensemble.
 
One of the show’s recurring issues is its desperation to constantly shock the audience. Violent moments involving executions, crushed bodies and sudden killings often feel less like narrative necessities and more like deliberate attempts to maintain viewer attention. Instead of deepening tension, this excessive brutality occasionally turns emotionally numbing. The series also struggles with its female characters, frequently reducing them to narrative devices meant to either seduce, suffer or trigger conflict within the male-dominated world.
 
Still, Glory remains intermittently engaging because of its performances and atmospheric grit. There is a genuinely compelling story buried beneath the clutter — a father whose obsession with victory destroys his relationship with his children, and sons trying to survive the emotional wreckage left behind. Had the series trusted that emotional core instead of constantly layering sensationalism over it, Glory could have become a far sharper and more emotionally devastating drama. Instead, it settles for being watchable, chaotic and occasionally powerful, while never quite becoming the knockout it clearly wanted to be.