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'Raakh' review: A sordid tale of depravity with a few grace notes
Scroll | June 12, 2026 1:40 PM CST

The day starts like any other. It will involve oceans of regret, though nobody knows it just yet.

Suman (Divya Sharma) and her younger brother Sahil (Vihaan Sharma) bid goodbye to their mother Mona (Sonali Bendre) and head off to an event. Sahil doesn’t want to go but Mona orders him to. Be your sister’s bodyguard, Mona tells Sahil.

Their father Ashok (Aamir Bashir) was supposed to have dropped them, but he couldn’t. When it starts to rain, the teenagers hitch a ride. The car is being driven by Babu (Akash Makhija) and Rajjo (Ramandeep Yadav), who have fled from Mumbai to Delhi after having committed a couple of brutal crimes.

The children never come home. Their parents grapple with shock and guilt. The investigating sub-inspector Jayaprakash (Ali Fazal) too has moments of what-ifs and what-could-have-beens – one of the more nuanced strands in the often sensationalist and gratuitously grisly Raakh.

The Hindi-language Prime Video series is a fictionalised account of the kidnapping-murders of the siblings Geeta and Sanjay Chopra in 1978 in New Delhi. The killers, Billa and Ranga, were arrested, convicted and eventually hanged in 1982.

The adaptation’s creators and writers, Anusha Nandakumar and Sandeep Saket, share directing duties with Prosit Roy across eight episodes. A tale of depravity and...

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