Murder in Mahim – TV Series (Hindi)
8 Episodes
May 10, 2024
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Murder In Mahim is a 2024 Hindi-language crime drama TV series on JioCinema written by Mustafa Neemuchwala and Udai Singh Pawar and directed by Raj Acharya. It stars Vijay Raaz, Ashutosh Rana, Shivani Raghuvanshi and Shivaji Satam. It was released on 10 May 2024.
Plot summary
Police officer Shivajirao Jende and his friend, retired journalist Peter Fernandes, dive into a murder case in Mumbai’s darker side. In a gripping story based on Jerry Pinto’s highly praised book, they discover hidden truths about longing, avarice, hopelessness, and also face the ghosts of their estranged friendship.
Cast
- Vijay Raaz as Shivajirao Jende
- Ashutosh Rana as Peter Fernandes
- Shivani Raghuvanshi as Firdaus Rabbani
- Shivaji Satam as Dullar Jende ( Shivajirao’s father )
- Divya Jagdale as Millie
- Smita Tambe
- Rajesh Khattar as Leslie
- Sonal Jha as Shaheen
- Benafsha Soonawalla as Rehana
- Rohan Verma as Sunil
- Ashitosh Gaikwad as Unit
- Nishant Kkhanduja as ViralVira
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Murder In Mahim Review
Jerry Pinto’s richly observed crime novel, Murder in Mahim, was published in 2017, a year before the Supreme Court finally read down Section 377 and decriminalised homosexuality. The book — a noir murder mystery — took a gritty yet empathetic look at gay life in the Mumbai underbelly. Seven years on, it’s been turned into a web series on JioCinema. The series, directed by Raj Acharya and adapted by Mustafa Neemuchwala and Udai Singh Pawar, has the benefit of hindsight, and it shows. Pinto sought to patiently delineate the repression, ignorance and homophobia that formed the basis of a draconian provision like Section 377. The series, releasing in marginally freer times, can afford to look virtuous, even didactic.
Murder in Mahim has the most literal start — indicative of the bland and business-like filmmaking Acharya will mostly rely upon. In the male public urinals of Mahim station, a mutilated body is found. The victim is discovered to be a young gay sex worker; soon enough, another sex worker turns up dead. A grisly detail ties both murders: the victims’ kidneys were forcefully removed. More troubling still, the killer — a hooded, unrevealed figure — has been leaving flagrant clues for their next target. It calls for the expertise of Shiva Jende (Vijay Raaz), who, along with assistant sub-inspector Firdaus (Shivani Raghuvanshi), wearily applies himself to the case.
The official investigation is closely tailed by a private one: that of retired journalist Peter Fernandes (Ashutosh Rana). Shiva and Peter were pals in their heyday (the characters first appeared in a short story by Pinto, in the anthology Mumbai Noir). When Peter is informed that his son, activist-y college-goer Sunil (Rohan Verma), is on the police’s radar — his phone number had turned up on the victims’ call records — Peter sets about seeking some answers. All the while, we see him nervously speculating about his son’s sexual preferences.
As Peter warily investigates, he gets an up-close view of the city’s underground gay scene, a world of masseurs and “personal trainers”, young boys pulled to prostitution through a mix of poverty, prejudice and police corruption. The series maps the fragility of gay rights in India — and the problems of class and social exclusion that attend queer existence in a city like Mumbai. The show is set in 2013 when the Supreme Court — overturning an earlier Delhi High Court ruling — upheld Section 377 and continued to do so for five more years. The legal stigma is reflected in common everyday attitudes: Peter and his wife, Mille (Divya Jagdale), though educated, empathetic parents, react with typical heteronormative discomfort at the possibility that their son might be gay.