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BOSS: Baap of Special Services

BOSS: Baap of Special Services (बॉस - बाप ऑफ स्पेशल सर्विसेज) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action thriller web series created for the ALTBalaji streaming platform, directed by Ankush Bhatt and created by Ghalib Asad Bhopali. It stars Karan Singh Grover as a conman who infiltrates a Shimla police task force under a stolen identity, and Sagarika Ghatge as the officer who suspects him. All ten episodes of the single season went online on 2 August 2019, and the series has since been listed as ended.1 • 2

Key factDetail
Original release2 August 2019, all ten episodes at once on ALTBalaji1 • 3
PremiseA conman posing as special crime branch officer Sudhir Kohli joins a Shimla task force to find his kidnapped daughter4 • 2
Lead castKaran Singh Grover (Sudhir Kohli / Keshav Khatri) and Sagarika Ghatge (ACP Sakshi Ranjan)4
Creative teamDirector Ankush Bhatt; writer/creator Ghalib Asad Bhopali; producers Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor and Ashish Kapoor2 • 5
Episode lengthAbout 27 minutes per episode6
IMDb rating5.7 out of 10 from roughly 3,300 votes6
Streaming historyOn ALTBalaji from August 2019; later on MX Player from May 2021 to May 2022; unavailable to stream in India as of recent listings6

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Premise

The story is set in Shimla, where rising crime with no leads or arrests prompts the police leadership to form a five-member special task force to fight crime. Inspector Sakshi Ranjan is appointed to lead the force, working alongside Inspector Sudhir Kohli, an officer known for solving cases through peculiar methods.7 • 8

The central twist is that Sudhir is not who he claims to be. He is really a conman named Keshav Khatri who has kidnapped the real Sudhir and taken his place in the police force for personal reasons: he is searching for his kidnapped daughter. Sakshi, a street-smart, no-nonsense officer who abides by the rules, intends to expose his identity.4 The character oscillates between his duty as a fake police officer and the search for his daughter, solving murders along the way.4

Individual episodes form largely self-contained cases in the first half of the season: a murder tied to blackmail and a painting worth lakhs (Blackmail), a newly married man killed in his honeymoon suite with ties to a sleazy porn network (Jaal), and a five-year-old cold case that exposes failures in the Shimla police department (Badlaa).7 The fifth episode, Mumbai Ka Thug, turns to Kohli's backstory, recalling how he cheated people with his friends a year earlier, and reveals that the cop who inspected the car on the night his daughter went missing was Sakshi herself.7 The season closes with a two-part finale, The Balloon Man and The Balloon Man Finale.6

Cast and production

Karan Singh Grover and Sagarika Ghatge both made their digital debuts with the series.9 The supporting cast includes Gaurav Gera (Jignesh), Ayaz Khan (Asif), Mahesh Shetty (the Chief), Tarun Mahilani (Johnny), Jignesh Joshi (Pandey), and Anveshi Jain (Megha).6 • 10

The series was produced by Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor and Ashish Kapoor under the ALTBalaji banner. Ekta Kapoor shared the first look and a motion poster in March 2019, showing Grover's character riding a Harley Davidson with Sakshi firing a gun from the backseat.5 The trailer, released on 12 July 2019, introduced Grover as Sudhir Kohli, a ladies' man in the Crime Branch, and Ghatge as a Special Crime Branch officer given to verbal tiffs with him.9

Reception

The Indian Express reviewer Arushi Jain called the ten-episode series a "full-on masala entertainer" with minimal action and "zero sense," but found it an easy binge because of Grover's comic timing and the suspense around how he became a conman. She criticized the repeated use of the hero's sexual involvement with women connected to his suspects, and advised viewers to watch it "for the pure joy of nonsensical humour" rather than expecting parity with serious Indian web series about police units.4 On IMDb the series holds a rating of 5.7 out of 10 based on about 3,300 votes.6

Availability

The series premiered on ALTBalaji on 2 August 2019 and required a paid subscription there.3 Balaji Telefilms' corporate filings later listed the show among the ALTBalaji titles made available on MX Player.11 According to JustWatch, it was last available on MX Player from May 2021 to May 2022 and is currently unavailable to stream in India.6 No second season has been announced.3

References

  1. BOSS: Baap of Special Services, TVmaze
  2. BOSS (2019), Indian Film History
  3. Boss | Baap of Special Services, Webisoda
  4. BOSS review: Karan Singh Grover and Sagarika Ghatge's show makes no sense, but still it isn't bad, The Indian Express (7 August 2019)
  5. BOSS - Baap Of Special Services First Look, PeepingMoon (11 March 2019)
  6. BOSS: Baap of Special Services, JustWatch
  7. BOSS: Baap of Special Services episode list, TheTVDB
  8. Hindi Web Series BOSS: Baap of Special Services, Nettv4u
  9. Boss trailer out: Karan Singh Grover and Sagarika Ghatge starrer thriller premieres on August 2, India Today (12 July 2019)
  10. BOSS: Baap of Special Services (2019), MDBList
  11. Balaji Telefilms Limited quarterly results (June 2021)

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026

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