# Black, White & Gray - Love Kills
**Black, White & Gray - Love Kills** is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller web series that streams on SonyLIV, presented as a mockumentary true-crime investigation into a series of murders in Nagpur that are entirely fictional.[1](https://www.sonyliv.com/shows/black-white-gray-love-kills-1790006585) • [2](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/interviews/did-he-do-it-all-your-black-white-gray-love-kills-questions-answered-by-the-shows-creator) Written, directed, and edited by Pushkar Sunil Mahabal, the six-episode series stars Mayur More, Palak Jaiswal, Deven Bhojani, and [Tigmanshu Dhulia](https://www.edgepedia.org/tigmanshu-dhulia).[3](https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india-today-insight/story/how-black-white-gray-raises-the-crime-saga-bar-2727630-2025-05-20) • [1](https://www.sonyliv.com/shows/black-white-gray-love-kills-1790006585)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Format | True-crime mockumentary: a fake documentary investigation interwoven with dramatic reenactments of the crime[4](https://scroll.in/reel/1081698/black-white-gray-review-of-the-true-crime-genre) |
| Release | 2 May 2025 on SonyLIV; one season of six episodes[5](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-web-series-131639) |
| Creator | Pushkar Sunil Mahabal (writer, director, editor); producers Swaroop Sampat and Hemal Thakkar; production company Playtime Creations[3](https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india-today-insight/story/how-black-white-gray-raises-the-crime-saga-bar-2727630-2025-05-20) • [5](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-web-series-131639) |
| Cast | Mayur More, Palak Jaiswal, Deven Bhojani, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Hakkim Shahjahan, Edward Sonnenblick, Anant Jog, Kamlesh Sawant[1](https://www.sonyliv.com/shows/black-white-gray-love-kills-1790006585) • [5](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-web-series-131639) |
| Languages | Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, and Marathi[6](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/news/black-white-8334566/amp) |
| IMDb rating | 7.9/10 from about 1.4K user ratings[7](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35822727/ratings/) |
| Runtime and certificate | About 43 minutes per episode; rated A (adults only, 18+)[8](https://www.justwatch.com/in/tv-show/black-white-and-gray-love-kills) • [5](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-web-series-131639) |
## Spoilers
### Premise
The story follows a 22-year-old man under suspicion of killing four people, including the girl he claims to love, who has been on the run for two years. An independent journalist from the UK investigates the crime and finds that there is more to the story than first appears.[1](https://www.sonyliv.com/shows/black-white-gray-love-kills-1790006585) The setting is Nagpur in 2020, where CCTV footage suggests that a driver's son killed a politician's daughter after the two sneaked out to a hotel; the police allege that he went on to murder a police officer and two others.[2](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/interviews/did-he-do-it-all-your-black-white-gray-love-kills-questions-answered-by-the-shows-creator) • [3](https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india-today-insight/story/how-black-white-gray-raises-the-crime-saga-bar-2727630-2025-05-20)
The journalist, Daniel Gray (voiced by Edward Sonnenblick), is framed as a Western filmmaker visiting India. His documentary features interviews with friends and relatives of the victims, while dramatic reenactments show what could have happened between the accused, the woman, and the three other victims. At the end of the first episode, Gray reveals that he has tracked down and interviewed the accused, Sanjay Kumar Sahu, who denies his involvement and gives a different sequence of events.[3](https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india-today-insight/story/how-black-white-gray-raises-the-crime-saga-bar-2727630-2025-05-20) • [4](https://scroll.in/reel/1081698/black-white-gray-review-of-the-true-crime-genre)
## Format and production
**Mockumentary structure.** The series runs two intertwined strands: a mockumentary about a crime that is presented as real, and the restaging of that crime with actors. Viewers come to realize that both halves are staged and that the talking heads are also actors; the show uses this to question the ethics of the true crime genre and the audience's willingness to accept well-packaged media narratives.[4](https://scroll.in/reel/1081698/black-white-gray-review-of-the-true-crime-genre) • [2](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/interviews/did-he-do-it-all-your-black-white-gray-love-kills-questions-answered-by-the-shows-creator) India Today described the result as part true-crime mockumentary, part chase thriller, and full metafiction.[3](https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india-today-insight/story/how-black-white-gray-raises-the-crime-saga-bar-2727630-2025-05-20)
Director Pushkar Sunil Mahabal, whose earlier thriller was *[Welcome Home](https://www.edgepedia.org/welcome-home-2020-film)*, has said the idea came from watching serial-killer documentaries during the pandemic: since he could not make a documentary, he decided to fake one. He has stated that the story is entirely fiction, not even loosely based on a real case, and grew from an anecdote he had heard about a man whose girlfriend seemed to die and then recover.[2](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/interviews/did-he-do-it-all-your-black-white-gray-love-kills-questions-answered-by-the-shows-creator) After release, he received calls asking about the "actual" case behind the show, which does not exist.[9](https://theprint.in/feature/black-white-gray-fake-docuseries-director-pushkar-sunil-mahabal/2652506/)
**Crafting the illusion.** The documentary portions were shot on a tripod with a small camera to look like a one-man shoot, with visible boom microphones and rough lighting, while CCTV clips were filmed on very old cameras for rawness. The drama half used a different camera and deliberately loud, filmi-style performances. Non-actor interviewees received their English dialogue seconds before shooting and translated it to Hindi within the take, so the fumbles and pauses read as documentary spontaneity.[2](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/interviews/did-he-do-it-all-your-black-white-gray-love-kills-questions-answered-by-the-shows-creator) The shooting schedule ran two months, with post-production lasting seven.[9](https://theprint.in/feature/black-white-gray-fake-docuseries-director-pushkar-sunil-mahabal/2652506/)
The crew included cinematographer Saee Bhope and music director Meghdeep Bose; Mahabal also served as editor.[5](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-web-series-131639)
## Themes
Reviewers identified class difference as the story's central fault line: the "Boy" is a driver's son and the "Girl" is the daughter of the driver's boss, though the series leaves caste unspecified and only hinted at.[9](https://theprint.in/feature/black-white-gray-fake-docuseries-director-pushkar-sunil-mahabal/2652506/) • [10](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-review-a-plot-told-with-conviction-backed-by-solid-performances-9978842/) [The Indian Express](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-indian-express)'s Shubhra Gupta found patriarchy, parental opposition, class differences, and power structures familiar from earlier crime dramas, but praised the series for creating vivid portraits of its characters and for the seamless seguing between the "real" interviewees and the actors playing them.[10](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-review-a-plot-told-with-conviction-backed-by-solid-performances-9978842/) Scroll noted that the show smuggles in themes of biased policing, confirmation bias, and public perceptions of ideal victims while dissecting the true crime genre's claim to expose hidden truth.[4](https://scroll.in/reel/1081698/black-white-gray-review-of-the-true-crime-genre) The Hollywood Reporter India observed that the recreations and most episodes unfold from the accused's perspective, with the Western documentarian's empathy lying with those at the bottom of the social hierarchy.[11](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/amp/story/reviews/streaming/black-white-gray-love-kills-series-review-a-triumph-of-form-and-narrative-ambition)
## Reception
The series holds a 7.9/10 rating on IMDb from about 1.4K user votes, with individual first-season episodes rated between 7.7 and 8.1.[7](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35822727/ratings/) The Deccan Chronicle gave it 3.5 out of 5, calling it a well-crafted docu-drama that blends true crime with emotional depth, while noting that the pacing slows at times.[12](https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/movie-review/review-black-white-gray-love-kills-on-sony-liv-1876030) The Indian Express rated it 3 out of 5.[10](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-review-a-plot-told-with-conviction-backed-by-solid-performances-9978842/) The Hollywood Reporter India called it a triumph of form and narrative ambition, and India Today described it as one of the more innovative Indian series in recent years.[11](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/amp/story/reviews/streaming/black-white-gray-love-kills-series-review-a-triumph-of-form-and-narrative-ambition) • [3](https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india-today-insight/story/how-black-white-gray-raises-the-crime-saga-bar-2727630-2025-05-20) Many viewers initially took the show for a real documentary; Mahabal has said some people watched all six episodes without realizing it was fiction.[2](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/interviews/did-he-do-it-all-your-black-white-gray-love-kills-questions-answered-by-the-shows-creator)
The series is available on SonyLIV with a subscription, in 4K with [Dolby Vision](https://www.edgepedia.org/dolby-vision) and [Dolby Atmos](https://www.edgepedia.org/dolby-atmos) audio, and is not available for streaming in the United States.[8](https://www.justwatch.com/in/tv-show/black-white-and-gray-love-kills) • [13](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/black-white-and-gray-love-kills)
## References
1. [Black, White & Gray - Love Kills, SonyLIV official page](https://www.sonyliv.com/shows/black-white-gray-love-kills-1790006585)
2. [Did He Do It? All Your 'Black White & Gray - Love Kills' Questions Answered By The Show's Creator, The Hollywood Reporter India](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/interviews/did-he-do-it-all-your-black-white-gray-love-kills-questions-answered-by-the-shows-creator)
3. [How 'Black, White & Gray' raises the crime saga bar, India Today](https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india-today-insight/story/how-black-white-gray-raises-the-crime-saga-bar-2727630-2025-05-20)
4. [Black White & Gray OTT review: A gripping dissection of the true crime genre, Scroll](https://scroll.in/reel/1081698/black-white-gray-review-of-the-true-crime-genre)
5. [Black, White & Gray–Love Kills Web Series (2025), Gadgets 360](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-web-series-131639)
6. [Black, White & Gray - Love Kills Now Streaming on SonyLIV, Gadgets 360](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/news/black-white-8334566/amp)
7. [Black, White & Gray: Love Kills - Ratings, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35822727/ratings/)
8. [Black, White & Gray: Love Kills - streaming online, JustWatch (India)](https://www.justwatch.com/in/tv-show/black-white-and-gray-love-kills)
9. [Fake docuseries: 'Black, White & Gray' director didn't want clear answers, ThePrint](https://theprint.in/feature/black-white-gray-fake-docuseries-director-pushkar-sunil-mahabal/2652506/)
10. [Black, White and Gray Love Kills review, The Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/black-white-and-gray-love-kills-review-a-plot-told-with-conviction-backed-by-solid-performances-9978842/)
11. ['Black, White & Gray – Love Kills' Series Review: A Triumph of Form and Narrative Ambition, The Hollywood Reporter India](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/amp/story/reviews/streaming/black-white-gray-love-kills-series-review-a-triumph-of-form-and-narrative-ambition)
12. [Review: Black White & Gray: Love Kills on Sony Liv, Deccan Chronicle](https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/movie-review/review-black-white-gray-love-kills-on-sony-liv-1876030)
13. [Black, White & Gray: Love Kills - streaming online, JustWatch (US)](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/black-white-and-gray-love-kills)
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