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3. The Great Indian Murder
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Cast: Richa Chadha, Pratik Gandhi, Ashutosh Rana, Raghuvir Yadav, Paoli Dam
Release Date: February 4, 2022, on Disney+ Hotstar
Synopsis: Vicky Rai is the cunning 32-year-old owner of the Rai Group of Industries and son of the Home Minister of Chhattisgarh, Jagannath Rai. Vicky gets murdered in cold blood at a party thrown by him to celebrate his acquittal in a rape and murder case of two shelter home girls. Six suspects surrounding his murder come under the radar of the case’s investigating officers DCP Sudha Bhardwaj (played by Rischa Chadha) and Suraj Yadav (played by Pratik Gandhi) of Central Bureau of Investigation.
4. Rocket Boys
Director: Abhay Pannu
Cast: Jim Sarbh, Ishwak Singh, Saba Azad, Namit Das, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Release Date: February 4, 2022, on SonyLIV
Synopsis: The story of two extraordinary physicists, Jehangir Bhabha (played by Jim Sarbh) and Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (played by Ishwak Singh), who created history while building India’s future!
5. The Fame Game
Director: Bejoy Nambiar and Karishma Kohli.
Cast: Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Kapoor, Manav Kaul, Lakshvir Saran, Suhasini Muley and Muskkaan Jaferi
Release Date: February 25, 2022, on Netflix
Synopsis: When India’s most famous actress goes missing, the search for her chips away at the flawless facade of her life and family, revealing painful truths.
6. Mithya
Director: Rohan Sippy (and produced by Applause Entertainment)
Cast: Avantika Dassani, Huma Qureshi
Release Date: 18th February 2022 on Zee5
Synopsis: ( Maine Pyar Kiya actress Bhagyashree’s daughter, Avantika Dassani is making her Bollywood debut with this show)
This six-part series is the Indian adaptation of the 2019 British show – ‘Cheat’. Set in Darjeeling, ‘Mithya’ showcases the conflicted relationship between a Hindi literature professor Juhi ( Huma) and her student Rhea Rajguru (Avantika).
What begins as a matter of academic deception, snowballs into a psychological combat between the two, as neither are willing to back down.
