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Iru Dhuruvam

Iru Dhuruvam (இரு துருவம்) is an Indian Tamil-language crime thriller streaming television series that premiered on SonyLIV in September 2019 as the platform's first Tamil original.¹ Its first season, written and directed by M. Kumaran, follows Inspector Viktor Selladurai (Nandha Durairaj) as he hunts a serial killer who leaves couplets from the Thirukkural, a classic Tamil text, at each crime scene.² A second season of ten episodes, written and directed by debutant Arun Prakash, was released on SonyLIV on 24 February 2023.³

Key fact	Detail
Format	Tamil-language story-based web series, produced in India⁴
Platform	SonyLIV; the series was SonyLIV's first Tamil original¹
Season 1	9 episodes, released 27 September 2019, written and directed by M. Kumaran⁵
Season 2	10 episodes, released 24 February 2023, written and directed by debutant Arun Prakash³
Lead cast	Nandha Durairaj as Inspector Viktor Selladurai; Abhirami Venkatachalam as Geetha; Prasanna as Lankeswaran in Season 2⁶
IMDb rating	7.7/10 from about 1,500 votes⁷
Title meaning	The title means "bipolar"; the series is also known as "Two Poles"²^•⁸

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Premise and structure

Season 1 centers on a murder case that turns out to be the work of a serial killer who quotes verses from the Thirukkural as clues. Inspector Viktor, returning from a short break, is tasked with identifying the murderer and uncovering his reasons; the investigation grows more personal the further he gets into it.⁹ Director M. Kumaran, a debutant director who had co-directed the films Arima Nambi and Iru Mugan, said he wanted the series to depart from the usual tropes of the crime thriller genre and used the Tamil language as an investigative device: each crime scene carries a Thirukkural as a clue because, in his telling, the killer loves the language.¹⁰

The season ran to nine episodes of roughly 25 to 30 minutes each and ended on a cliffhanger, with Viktor discovering that the killer is personally associated with him.¹ Episode guides record the season's opening installment as the investigation into the homicide of Nivetha, a young, unmarried woman, with subsequent episodes following leads that surface the Thirukkural connection.¹¹

Season 2 picks up from that climax. Viktor, still without leads on the whereabouts of his wife Geetha, who went missing, is pulled back into the police force when a series of police officers is found murdered. He comes to believe that Lankeswaran (Prasanna), a psychologist and motivational speaker, is behind the murders, while remaining himself under investigation for his wife's disappearance.³ India Today described the shift in genre between the two seasons: the first was a straight crime thriller, while the second is a psychological thriller built on mind games between the officer and his suspect.¹²

Production and release

The series was announced as a partnership between SonyLIV and Applause Entertainment, a content studio of the Aditya Birla Group, and was produced for Applause by Pramod Cheruvalath's Sign of Life Productions.² Gadgets 360 credits Season 1's cinematography to Raja K. Bakthavatchalam and its music to Surya Prasadh R, with Sona Jayaram and Vignesh Menon as producers; the same credits carried over to Season 2.⁵^•³

Release dates differ slightly across databases: Gadgets 360 and Sacnilk list Season 1 as released on 27 September 2019, while TheTVDB and Moviefone list the first airing as 29 September 2019.⁵^•¹³^•⁴^•¹⁴ Renewal news in October 2021, confirmed by female lead Abhirami Venkatachalam, predated Season 2 by about a year and a half; the second season arrived on SonyLIV on 24 February 2023.¹^•³ Actor Nandha said in a February 2023 interview that Iru Dhuruvam was one of the earliest Tamil web series to launch in India, and that Prasanna's antagonist role was important to the season because a strong antagonist makes the protagonist strong.¹⁵

The series is available in more languages than its original Tamil: SonyLIV lists audio in Tamil, Bangla, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, and Telugu, in formats up to UHD with Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision.¹⁶ Outside India, JustWatch reported no streaming availability in the United States while the show streams in India on VI movies and tv and Sony Liv, the latter also free with ads.¹⁷

Reception

On IMDb the series holds a weighted rating of 7.7/10 from about 1,500 votes, with an unweighted mean of 6.2; per-episode ratings run from 7.0 to 8.4 in Season 1 and cluster between 7.2 and 7.6 in Season 2.¹⁸ Critical reception of Season 2 was mixed. India Today rated it 2 out of 5, calling the writing lacklustre and noting that the murderer is identifiable by episode six, but singled out Prasanna's performance as Lankeswaran as the standout and observed that the season closes with an open ending that points to a possible third season.¹² The Tamil-language review on Filmibeat rated it 2.5 out of 5.¹⁹

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Indian and South Asian web series

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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