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Indu

Indu (ইন্দু) is a Bengali-language mystery drama web series streaming on hoichoi, created by Sahana Dutta and directed by Sayantan Ghosal, in which a new bride investigates dark secrets, scandals, and deaths inside her marital home.¹^•² Its first season premiered on 22 October 2021 with eight episodes and stars Ishaa Saha in the title role.³ The series has since expanded to three seasons, with the third premiering on 27 September 2025.⁴^•⁵

Key fact	Detail
Original title	ইন্দু (Indu)⁴
Platform and premiere	hoichoi; Season 1 premiered 22 October 2021³
Format	Drama and mystery; U/A 16+ rating; Season 1 has 8 episodes¹
Creators	Created and written by Sahana Dutta; Season 1 directed by Sayantan Ghosal²
Lead cast	Ishaa Saha as Indu; Chandraniv Mukhopadhyay as Sougato; Suhotra Mukhopadhyay as Sujato; Payel De as Khushi; Manali Dey as Laboni⁴
Seasons	3 seasons: Season 1 (8 episodes), Season 2 (8 episodes), Season 3 (7 episodes)⁴
Reception	IMDb rating 7.4 from about 1.3k votes; Digit Binge rating 7.5⁴^•⁶

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Premise and story

The series follows Indrani, called Indu, a soft-hearted but determined young woman from a traditional Bengali family. Her family arranges her marriage after her sister Milli elopes with Indu's fiancé, and she is hastily married to Saugato Dasgupta after only a brief introduction.³ Strange events begin on the wedding day itself, making it clear that someone in the new household opposes the marriage, and suspicion falls on Saugato's brother Sujato and his estranged wife Laboni.³

As the marriage proceeds, the incidents grow stranger. The series depicts the Dasgupta household as peculiar, misogynistic, and patriarchal, with the women of the house facing insults and violence for small transgressions, and it includes a murder plot and several attempts on Indu's life.³ Indu and Saugato decide to fight the odds together, and Indu resolves to reach the root of the mystery.³ hoichoi's own synopsis frames the setup as "dark secrets of her new home and new family" that may endanger her life.¹

Season 1 episodes

Season 1's eight episodes carry individual Bengali titles, a naming choice that reviewers singled out for attention.¹^•⁷ The episode runtimes range from 18 to 28 minutes.¹

Dodhi Mangal (19m): It is Indu's wedding day, but she is not a happy bride, and an uncanny gift from her future in-laws worsens her unease.¹^•⁶
Shajabo Jotoney (24m): The Dasgupta family prepares for the eldest son's marriage while Khushi's mischief infuriates the family matriarch Annada.⁶
Bashor Ghawr (18m): Indu's painful past resurfaces at the wedding, and that night she sees the silhouette of a woman behind the house.⁶
Kaalratri (28m): As Indu tries to adjust to her new family's strange ways, odd happenings stir her suspicion.⁶
Phulshojya (21m): Saugato loses his calm when Indu's buried past is revealed.⁶
Bish pata (20m): Indu becomes determined to learn more about the mysterious Laboni, and the family receives horrifying news.⁶
Biswash - Sandeho (23m): The tragic news opens an array of dark secrets.⁶
Bhalo Meye, Bhalo Na (27m): Indu realizes that one person in her new family has been behind all the mishappenings.⁶

Cast and characters

Ishaa Saha plays Indu, the new bride whose investigation drives the story. Chandraniv Mukhopadhyay plays her husband Sougato, and Suhotra Mukhopadhyay plays Sujato, the brother-in-law.⁴ Payel De plays Khushi, Saugato and Sujato's mentally unstable elder sister, a performance that drew particular praise from reviewers; Manali Dey plays the mysterious Laboni, and Manasi Sinha plays the conservative mother-in-law.⁴^•² The RadioBanglaNet review also credited Tanika Basu as Indu's sister Milli, Mimi Dutta as the younger sister-in-law Poushali, and Judhajit Sarkar as brother-in-law Mihir.²

Production

Sahana Dutta wrote the story and screenplay, and Binet Ranjan Maitra's production design and Sudipta Majumdar's cinematography were credited by the RadioBanglaNet review with giving the series its atmosphere of light and shadow, confined almost entirely to two houses.² Season 1's total runtime was 180 minutes across its eight episodes.² The producer credited on hoichoi's page is Missing Screw.¹

Director attribution differs across databases: hoichoi's official page and contemporary reviews name Sayantan Ghosal for Season 1,¹^•² while Digit and JustWatch also list Abhimanyu Mukherjee as a director.⁶^•⁴ Season 3 was directed by Ayan Chakraborti, with Sahana Dutta again credited as creator.⁵

Seasons and reception

The first season was among the most discussed Bengali web series of 2021. The Indian Express Bengali service placed it in its year-end roundup of talked-about series, writing that the mystery web the director wove from the first episode held viewers to the end and that the series ran ahead of five other series in content.⁷ The Sangbad Pratidin review praised Ishaa Saha's performance and noted a twist in the final episode.⁸

Reception of later seasons was more mixed. A Sangbad Pratidin review of Indu 2 (January 2023) wrote that the second season did not fulfill the promise of the first, though it praised the performances of Ishaa Saha and Suhotra Mukhopadhyay and the portrayal of the characters' dark sides.⁹ A later review of Indu 3 described the third season as full of mystery and able to hold viewers to the end.¹⁰ On aggregators, the series holds an IMDb rating of 7.4 from about 1.3k votes and a Digit Binge rating of 7.5.⁴^•⁶

Availability

Indu streams on hoichoi, on the Hoichoi Amazon Channel, and free with ads on Amazon MX Player; JustWatch also lists free streaming on Hoichoi.⁴ Digit's catalog lists the series as available on Airtel Xstream, MX Player, Prime Video, and Hoichoi, in Hindi, Bengali, and English.⁶ hoichoi, the platform behind the series, is a Bengali-language on-demand streaming service launched in 2017 by SVF Entertainment, aimed at the roughly 250 million Bengali speakers worldwide.¹¹^•¹²

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › South and Southeast Asian serials › South Asian web serials

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

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