Killer Soup
A darkly humorous thriller set in a fictional hill station.
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Killer Soup is an Indian Hindi language black comedy crime thriller television series by Netflix. It premiered on 11 January 2024 on Netflix. The series is co-written by Abhishek Chaubey along with Harshad Nalawade, Anant Tripathi and Unaiza Merchant and directed by Abhishek Chaubey.
It stars Konkona Sen Sharma and Manoj Bajpayee. It was previously titled as "Soup." The series is available for streaming on Netflix. It is loosely based on a 2017 case in Telangana.
Lore / Story / Guide
The series is set in the fictional hill station of Mainjur, Tamil Nadu. The plot follows an aspiring yet talentless nurse-turned-home chef, Swathi, who conspires to replace her husband, Prabhakar Shetty, with her lover and Prabhakar's squint-eyed doppelgänger, Umesh Pillai.
Konkona Sen Sharma plays Swathi Shetty. Manoj Bajpayee appears in a dual role as Prabhakar "Prabhu" Shetty, Swathi's husband, and Umesh Pillai, Swathi's lover. The cast also includes Nassar as Inspector Hassan, Sayaji Shinde as Arvind Shetty (Prabhakar's elder brother), Anula Navlekar as Apeksha "Appu" Shetty (Arvind's daughter and Prabhu's niece), Lal as Charles Lucas (Arvind's bodyguard), Rajeev Ravindranathan as DSP Udaya Reddy, Kani Kusruti as Kirtima Kadathanathan, Shilpa Mudbi as Head Constable Asha Ritu, Anbu Thasan as ASI Thupalli, Vaishali Bisht as Khansama, Mallika Prasad Sinha as Zubeida, Bagavathi Perumal as Private Detective Kiran Nadar, and Raja PRS as Police Constable Binny.
Reception
Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave four stars out of five and said Killer Soup is a cleverly written crime and investigative comedy that is characterised by astute writing and flawless performance, calling it witty, cunning, and incredibly amusing. Dhaval Roy of The Times of India also gave 4 stars out of 5 and wrote in his review that viewers will remain captivated throughout Killer Soup, a darkly humorous thriller with subtleties and complexities, and that Abhishek Chaubey's recipe is so amazing that you will devour it in one sitting. Lachmi Deb Roy wrote in Firstpost that it is deliciously dark comedy at its best, intriguing and humorous with just the proper amount of heat, and that Konkona Sen Sharma and Manoj Bajpayee's Killer Soup is just what audiences would desire during the chilly month of January.
Zinia Bandyopadhyay wrote in her review in India Today that the performers do their roles almost well, that as a policeman Nasser stood out, and that the show's exquisite cinematography is one item that merits discussion, with the tale given so much depth by the close-up views. Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave 2 stars out of 5 and said in her review that a black "comedy" is supposed to be humorous and make you laugh despite yourself, yet she was waiting for the jokes to start here and kept looking forward to shockers. Sukanya Verma of rediff.com also gave 2 stars and criticized it, saying when Killer Soup's clever and bizarre graphics lose their impact, the difficulty of maintaining the flow is evident as the stories get overly complicated.
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