The six-episode Malayalam police procedural is out on Disney+ Hotstar.
Perhaps no Indian language industry takes the crime procedural as seriously as Malayalam cinema. (Bengali cinema, with its endless supply of private detectives, comes a close second.) There is a host of Malayalam thrillers revolving around the painstaking police work involved in nabbing murderers or serial killers.
The new Disney+ Hotstar series Kerala Crime Files: Shiju, Parayil Veedu, Neendakara is well aware of its heritage. One of the establishments in the show is named after Mammootty, who starred as a Sherlockian police inspector in a series of such films.
The six-episode series has been written by Ashiq Aimar and directed by Ahammed Khabeer. After Dahaad, here is another show that could have worked better as a movie.
