Director: Abhishek Chaubey
Writers: Anant Tripathi, Abhishek Chaubey, Unaiza Merchant, Harshad Nalawade
Cast: Konkona Sen Sharma, Manoj Bajpayee, Nasser, Sayaji Shinde, Anula Navlekar, Kani Kusruti, Lal, Rajeev Ravindranathan, Anbuthasan
Streaming on: Netflix
Once upon a time, in a land not too far away, an influential family found itself in a soup. Corrupt businessman Arvind Shetty (Sayaji Shinde) is neck-deep in a money-laundering racket. To make matters worse, his daughter Apeksha (Anula Navlekar) has no intentions of inheriting his empire; she wants to study art in France. Prabhakar Shetty (Manoj Bajpayee) – or Prabhu – is a failed entrepreneur who dreams of starting a luxury hotel with his brother Arvind’s money; he has also scammed Arvind of a whopping INR 30 crore over the years. Prabhu’s wife Swathi (Konkona Sen Sharma) is a mediocre home chef who aspires to run a restaurant in said luxury hotel. Except she’s also having an affair with Prabhu’s squint-eyed masseuse Umesh (Manoj Bajpayee), who looks like Prabhu but loves her dearly.
When things go wrong one night, Swathi schemes to replace her husband with Umesh; she manipulates him into having a painful ‘makeover’. But they’re not alone. A jaded inspector on the verge of retirement, Hassan (Nasser), gets obsessed after his eager subordinate, ASI Thupalli (Anbuthasan), is found dead during the investigation. The soup thickens, with the involvement of Prabhu’s lovesick accountant Kirtima (Kani Kusruti), a loyal bodyguard and former jungle rebel Lucas (Lal), a bumbling private detective (Bucks), a bumbling DSP (Rajeev Ravindranathan), and many more characters that I’m sure we’re expected to forget.