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Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach is an Indian Hindi-language legal drama web series directed by Rohan Sippy. Starring Pankaj Tripathi, Shweta Basu Prasad, Purab Kohli and Swastika Mukherjee in prominent roles, the storyline follows the murder case of a teenage celebrity.[1] It premiered on 26 August 2022 and is the third installment in Hotstar Specials' anthology courtroom drama, Criminal Justice.

Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach
Genre	Crime Legal drama Thriller
Written by	Bijesh Jayarajan Iti Agarwal Riya Poojary Siddharth Hirwe[1]
Directed by	Rohan Sippy
Starring	Pankaj Tripathi Shweta Basu Prasad Purab Kohli Swastika Mukherjee
No. of episodes	8
Production
Production companies	BBC Studios India Applause Entertainment[2]
Distributor	Star India
Release
Original network	Disney+ Hotstar
Original release	26 August (2022-08-26) – 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07)
Chronology
Preceded by	Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors

Synopsis

Mukul Ahuja is a young and spoilt son of Avantika and stepson of Neeraj Ahuja. Neeraj's daughter Zara Ahuja is a child star who appears in a teleseries called Bittu. Ahujas practically live on money earned by Zara. A property developer in Madh Island contracts Zara to shoot an ad film for his upcoming property. A night before the shoot, both Mukul and Zara sneak out of their villa separately and end up in the same party. They have a big fight in public before they leave the party.

Mukul ends up back at home, but Zara does not return. Her body is then found drowned in the sea with acid burns on her face. All circumstantial evidences point to Mukul, who is arrested and placed in Juvenile Justice Home. Public Prosecutor Lekha is appointed to represent State of Maharashtra, who is almost prejudiciously determined to get Mukul convicted. Meanwhile, Zara's parents hire Madhav Mishra (Pankaj Tripathi) as defense councel, but Mukul does not have confidence in his lawyer and tried his own means to get out of the mess.

Cast

• Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra
• Shweta Basu Prasad as Lekha
• Purab Kohli as Neeraj Ahuja
• Swastika Mukherjee as Avantika Ahuja
• Aaditya Gupta as Mukul Ahuja
• Deshna Dugad as Zara Ahuja
• Gaurav Gera as Arvind
• Khushboo Atre as Ratna Mishra
• Adinath Kothare as Prashant Waghmare
• Kalyanee Mulay as Gauri Karmakar
• Rushad Rana
• Chandresh Singh
• Ishrat Khan
• Rajesh Khera
• Upendra Limaye
• Aatm Prakash Mishra as Deepu[1]

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Original release date
1	"A Dark Night"	Rohan Sippy	26 August 2022 (2022-08-26)
2	"Web of Lies"	Rohan Sippy	26 August 2022 (2022-08-26)
3	"Bail Denied"	Rohan Sippy	2 September 2022 (2022-09-02)
4	"Section 15"	Rohan Sippy	9 September 2022 (2022-09-09)
5	"Confirmation Bias"	Rohan Sippy	16 September 2022 (2022-09-16)
6	"The Breaking Point"	Rohan Sippy	23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)
7	"Digging Deeper"	Rohan Sippy	30 September 2022 (2022-09-30)
8	"Nothing but the Truth"	Rohan Sippy	7 October 2022 (2022-10-07)

Release

On 10 August 2022, Disney+ Hotstar released the trailer[3] and announced the release date. The series premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 26 August 2022[4] and concluded on 7 October 2022.[5]

Reception

The series received mixed reviews from critics. Subhash K. Jha, reviewing on Firstpost, praised the "storytelling structure, giving to each episode a kind of free-flowing momentum that doesn’t seem artificial or simulated" and added that the "new season manages to go beyond the other two seasons in the pursuit of an engaging thriller perched on the legal theme."[6] Agnivo Niyogi of The Telegraph praised the screenplay and acting performances, calling the series "an instant hit".[7] Nandini Ramnath wrote on Scroll.in that Pankaj Tripathi "hugely boosts the new edition, even if he can’t quite rescue it entirely."[8]

Archika Khurana of The Times of India gave the series three stars out of five, calling it an "engaging legal drama with emotionally dragging scenes", which is "overly stretched before the actual action and courtroom drama begins."[1] Srijita Sen of News18 opined that important topics like trial by media, juvenile justice system, substance abuse and mental health issues in adolescents remained underexplored due to "unnecessary, slow-paced drama".[9] Abhimanyu Mathur of Hindustan Times was critical of the storyline for sidetracking from the show's original theme of portraying "the shortcomings of India’s legal systems" and labelled it a "run-of-the-mill murder mystery".[10]

References

External links

• Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach at IMDb

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