Undekhi

Undekhi
अनदेखी
Genre	Crime Thriller
Created by	Sidharth Sengupta
Written by	Siddharth Sengupta Varun Badola Umesh Padalkar Mohinder Pratap Singh
Directed by	Ashish R. Shukla
Starring	Dibyendu Bhattacharya Surya Sharma Harsh Chhaya Ankur Rathee Abhishek Chauhan Anchal Singh Ayn Zoya Apeksha Porwal
Composers	Anuj Danait Shivam Sengupta
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Producers	Siddharth Sengupta Jyoti Sagar
Production location	India
Cinematography	Murzy Pagdiwala
Editor	Rajesh Pandey
Running time	30-35 Minutes
Production companies	Applause Entertainment Edgestorm Ventures
Distributor	Sony Liv
Release
Original network	Sony Liv
Original release	10 July 2020 (2020-07-10)
External links
Undekhi

Undekhi (English: Unseen) is an Indian Hindi-language crime thriller web television series which premiered on Sony Liv on 10 July 2020. It is produced by Applause Entertainment & Edgestorm Ventures. The first look was released on 21 June 2020 while the trailer was out on 26 June 2020.^[1] The series is based on true incidents and depicts the two aspects of the society - the power-drunk influential people who think they can get away with anything and the oppressed, subjected to years of torture, who finally decide to bring themselves to justice.

Synopsis[]

Undekhi begins in Sunderbans but soon shifts to Manali. In less than 30 minutes, viewers witness two murders. DSP Barun Ghosh (Dibyendu Bhattacharya) is investigating the Sunderban murder of a policeman, whose mutilated body is found in the forest. Two tribal girls are on the run and Ghosh, who suspects them to be the killers is on their trail.^[2]

Cast and characters[]

• Dibyendu Bhattacharya as DSP Barun Ghosh, a policeman from West Bengal.^[3]
• Surya Sharma as Rinku Paaji.^{[citation needed]}
• Harsh Chhaya as Papaji.
• Abhishek Chauhan as Rishi, the videographer.
• Ayn Zoya as Saloni, head of wedding film team.
• Apeksha Porwal as Koyal, Adivasi girl from Sundarban.^[4]
• Ankur Rathee as Daman, Papaji's son & the groom.
• Karmveer Choudhary as Kandpal
• Anchal Singh as Teji, the bride.
• Mandeep Bamra as Lovely singh.
• Vaarun Bhagat as Lucky.
• Sayandeep Sengupta as Shashwat.
• Meenakshi Sethi as Papaji's wife.
• Shivaani Sopuri as Rinku's Mother

Episodes[]

Season 1 consists of 10 episodes.^[5]

Reception[]

Undekhi received mostly positive reviews from critics and audiences. Rajkumar Rao appreciated the show on twitter on the date of the release on his twitter page.^[6] Pramit Chatterjee of Mashable said it an Impressive show quoting "Undekhi is made of stories and people that we’ve met whose actions make them live in our minds rent-free. It’s what builds the sentiment that we as a nation are truly not free. Yes, the British have left us. But what about our privilege, classism, racism, communal divisions, power dynamics, corruption, etc? Did they take it with them? No. It still exists."^[7] Ronak Kotecha of The Times of India said it "An Engrossing and Gritty Crime Drama" giving it 3.5 stars out of 5.^[8] Avinash Ramachandran of Indian Express praised the performances of the actors saying "Competent performances power this thriller".^[9]

Controversies[]

As a part of the promotional activity, citizens received 'fake murder calls' from the network. The call has a man's trembling voice saying that he has witnessed a murder and that he is about to get murdered too. At the end of the call, it is revealed that this is a promotional call for the web show. ^[10] The ploy, however, seems to have backfired for SonyLIV, the channel streaming the show, because many people started taking the call seriously, and took to Twitter to express shock.^[11] Finally, Sony LIV tweeted that it was a promotional activity. “If you have received a call for our show...and it has disturbed you, we would like to sincerely apologize to you. This was a test activity which has gone out accidentally,” it said.^[12][13]

References[]

External links[]

• Undekhi at IMDb
• Undekhi on Sony Liv
• Official Blog