Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach

After two very good seasons that talked about the trappings of the India’s criminal justice system and the perceptions of guilt, with Adhura Sach decides, the show decides it wants to be a run-of-the-mill murder mystery. The story this time revolves around the death of popular child actor Zara Ahuja with all the clues pointing at her minor step brother Mukul. But Mukul’s mother (Swastika Mukherjee) isn’t convinced and asks advocate Madhav Mishra (Pankaj Tripathi) for help. How Pankaj unravels the mystery and fends off the challenge of a new public prosecutor (Shweta Basu Prasad) is the crux of the story.Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach Season 1 Download.

The biggest flaw with Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach is the show is confused about what it wants to be. The first two seasons, as I mentioned, were about the shortcomings of India’s legal systems and how accused can become victims themselves. This track is present in the third season but overshadowed by a more traditional whodunnit track. The show itself discards its USP, something that helped it stand out from among the crowd of murder mysteries in the OTT scene.The accused is a minor, who is sent to a juvenile home. Hence, the show had the opportunity to delve deep into the juvenile justice system in India and show its trappings and shortcomings. Mind you, the original British show Criminal Justice (and its American remake The Night Of) was an indictment of the justice system itself. The show begins to attempt that but abandons that pursuit mid-effort, it seems.

The writing lets the show down dearly. The narrative is disjointed and the pacing is all over the place. The worst offence the show commits is that it fails to depict an accurate portrayal of the Gen Z despite being a show about young people. It seems the writers have never met a real teenager or are aware of how teenagers today talk or behave.