Bhumi Pednekar as DCP Rita Ferreira in Amazon Prime’s Daldal
Bhendi Bazaar
Three teenage girls planning a flight from the Soviet Union to the West end up being sold in Mumbai’s red-light district instead.
The murders begin a quarter of a century later. The victims are all men, all of them tricks, waiting for trysts with high-class escorts. DCP Rita Ferreira quickly recognises the serial-killer pattern; the media isn’t far behind. The news sends shockwaves through the city. The first serial killer in living memory of Mumbai is on the streets.
As Rita struggles to establish the killer’s pattern through BHENDI BAZAAR, the killer gives her 24 hours to prevent the next murder. Can she do so before she becomes the next victim?
Doosra – The Other One
Ron Jogani, a jeweller from Mumbai, is in Belgium to buy a consignment of loose diamonds worth over €10 million. Hours later, he’s dead in his hotel room in Brussels: murdered. The perpetrators are highly tech-savvy and have disabled all the CCTV cameras in the hotel… except for one concealed camera in the lift, which has captured one of the men. When one of the stolen diamonds is sold in Mumbai, the Belgian Police reach out to their Indian counterparts.
The case is assigned to DCP Rita Ferreira. But when Rita and her team track down the man in the photograph provided by the Belgians, they realise there must have been a slip-up: the target does not even have a passport — he couldn’t have travelled to Brussels. And then they discover that a private detective is already following their target…
Lipstick
DCP Rita Ferreira is called in to the investigation after a third corpse is discovered in Mumbai, confirming it is the work of the same killer who paints his victims’ lips with dark red lipstick. The Lipstick Killer, like all serial killers, is rapidly decompensating – the time between murders shortening, the victims shifting from street-side hookers to high-heeled wives … And he watches everything and everyone – the news of his exploits, Rita, the investigation – and talks.
However, he only talks to you: ‘When I’m gone, some people may tell you that I was evil, perhaps even call me a psychopath. Don’t believe them. I am not. I am anything but irrational and impractical; perhaps only slightly more detached than your average guy on the street.’
Showtime! (Coming Soon)
When DCP Rita Ferreira and the team are assigned to the first murder, they have no inkling they are actually investigating the second. The first corpse, yet to be discovered, is already rotting elsewhere. Identical MO. The two men, both over 50, have been hacked to death and decapitated. Both philanderers. But the lack of a cooling-off period between the two murders tells Rita it isn’t a serial killer’s work. Someone is exacting revenge. Some old photographs reveal the killer is targeting six men.
Then a tenuous financial link leads the team to the third man, but before they can investigate him, he is murdered too. Whoever it is, they’re not giving the police much time. The fourth man is murdered outdoors, on the seaside. The police identify the fifth man, but—as Rita and the team discover—he has long since died of a cardiac arrest. It’s panic time. If the killer gets to the sixth man before the police, it might be his final kill. He’s left no clues and could well disappear after the fifth murder, never to resurface. And all that Rita and the team have so far is that a young girl escaped from her home in Amritsar, and a poor man once sought financial help from a philanthropist. Where did their paths cross?
Vish Dhamija 