TWISTS IN THE TALE

JioCinema’s cop drama Gaanth Chapter 1: Jamnaa Paaris a fictionalised account of the 2018 Burari deaths

- Devarsi Ghosh

Gaanth Chapter 1: Jamnaa Paar is the latest excursion into the 2018 ritualistic mass suicide of 11 members of a family in Northeast Delhi's Burari area. Creator Soham Bhattacharya, with writers Anagh Mukherjee and Fahim Irshad, spins a cop drama out of the infamous incident, hedging bets on a simple question: was it suicide or murder? Out on JioCinema in June, Gaanth follows Manav Vij as angry cop Gadar Singh, who is investigating the deaths, along with psychiatry intern Sakshi Murmu, whose savant syndrome allows her to cut through the clutter and see patterns in the crime everybody else is missing.