Web series Review : Dhootha Season 1

DHOOTHA (Season 1)

Cast : Naga Chaitanya, Parvati Thiruvothu, Prachi Desai. 

Genre : Supernatural,Horror, Suspense, Thriller, Macabre, 2024-watched. 

Director and Writer : Vikram K Kumar 

Watched Medium : Amazon Prime Video 

My Rating : 9.5/10 😀😀😀😀😀

Crime gets reported to the relevant parties before it actually takes place and the future is something that cannot be altered because it is written by a ghost!! One of the best I have ever watched. Kept me hooked from the start till the end! 

Very thought provoking and nerve wracking experience. Makes us wonder at what point the real infiltration of lies and politics started happening into journalism in our country. Journalism is supposed to be a field filled with people who uphold the values of integrity and truth but for quite a while, spreading fake news has become the norm, for the benefits of certain corporate parties. This web series shines a light on the devastation that could result from the work of a few corrupt journalists. Its told with a very fresh voice and from a very uncliched perspective. Love this series. It has a high rating on imdb too! I give it a 9.5/10 for the brilliant story, narration and the acting of all the characters involved!! If there is one web series you are all looking to watch to get scared, to get educated, to get thoroughly entertained – get your pop corn ready and watch this one!! 🙂 

This is the kind of a web series that we either watch it all in one go because it is hyper-addictive or stop watching altogether because of an inability to stomach the hyper gore and violence elements in it. I wonder how the director Mr.Kumar has narrated this tangled web of mystery and horror to the actors to convince them to take up their roles. Its not a simple story and there are layers and layers of mystery, suspense, supernatural horror cascaded together. I watched a couple of trial episodes and got hooked for the rest. It is just so good and subtle at the beginning, then only got better. 

I have never seen Naga Chaitanya act so well. He surprised me with his intense and fully immersed skill as a haunted journalist struggling to keep his life from being torn apart by the forces not in his control at all. He plays the role of a highly corrupted and selfish, callous, hedonistic journalist that cares little to nothing about morals. He runs a news paper agency but sells paper space to politicians and media personalities who bid the highest. Some force is targeting all such journalists everywhere and it is his time to be on the radar. While he and his family are targeted by this supernatural force, he also becomes the suspect in a tightening noose of several murder investigations related to this case. He gets mired into a deep and deep pit of trouble with no breathing space.  How does it all turn out? Who is behind the killings? How does he get out of the police investigation? – a smart journalist hunted down by an equally smart DCP agent.