Watch These Murder Mysteries On The Small Screen This June
A good murder mystery is timeless. This June, as the subcontinent swelters in heat, it’s time to switch on the air conditioners and make good use of holidays with some binge-watching. Here is a list of some Indian murder mysteries that promise to keep you on your toes:
Wrong Turn
Zee Theatre's Wrong Turn is inspired by a German story titled Breakdown. Penned by Ranjit Kapoor for the Indian audience, the story is set in a mysterious, isolated house on a rainy evening where a stranded stranger takes shelter and gets entrapped in a deadly game. Arun (Varun Badola) finds himself fighting a battle of wits with a retired judge and his friends as a mock trial ensues.
The teleplay also stars Govind Namdev, Lalit Tiwari, Suneel Sinha, Liliput Faruqui, Varun Badola, Suzzane Mukherjee, Anangsha Biswas, Shalini Sharma and Niraj Sah.
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Kasganj
A misty hill town, the death of a young girl, a murderer on the loose, tangled relationships and an alcoholic police officer fighting his own demons – this is the plot of ZEE5’s Kasganj. Written by Shashi Bhushan, Anurag Goswami and Matt Greene, the compelling procedural follows a potentially deadly investigation in a resort where everyone is a possible suspect.
The film stars Vaquar Shaikh, Kundan Kumar, Vivek Madaan, Jeetendra Shastri, Sargun Luthra, Hetal Gada and Shashi Bhushan.
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Talvar
Meghna Gulzar's Talvar explored the tangled web of unanswered questions around the 2008 Noida double murder case though it fictionalised a few elements. A morning like any other in a middle-class home turns into a shocking tragedy when a househelp's body is found on the terrace and the young daughter of a doting couple is found murdered in her bed.
Starring Irrfan Khan, Konkana Sen Sharma, Tabu, Neeraj Kabi and Gajraj Rao, you can watch Talvar on Disney+Hotstar.
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Murder Mubarak
This mind-bending mystery by Homi Adajania unfolds in an elite club frequented by a bunch of privileged, rich people. When a string of murders disturbs their lives, everyone turns into an amateur sleuth trying to find skeletons in each other's closets.
Murder Mubarak stars Sara Ali Khan, Vijay Varma, Pankaj Tripathi, Karishma Kapoor, Tisca Chopra, Dimple Kapadia and Sanjay Kapoor. Watch it on Netflix.
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Badla
Badla is a superhit remake of an even bigger Spanish hit film The Invisible Guest. The story begins when a tragic murder begins to unravel and ends up implicating Naina Sethi, a successful business woman in the case. How a series of random events and the arrival of a famous defence attorney Badal Gupta changes everything is worth watching.
Directed by Sujoy Ghosh, the film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Tony Luke and Amrita Singh. It is streaming on Netflix.
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