There are, of course, detractors. Some traditional viewers find the magical realism confusing. “Why are the birds humming? Just argue like normal people,” wrote one YouTube comment. But that seems to be the minority opinion. Most agree that the show’s willingness to be weird is its greatest strength.

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is a groundbreaking pilot episode that completely subverts traditional Indian television tropes. Directed by Homi Adajania and streaming on Disney+ Hotstar, the series replaces traditional domestic melodramas with a dark, ultra-violent, and fiercely matriarchal crime syndicate. There are, of course, detractors