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Kohrra

Kohrra is an Indian investigative crime drama streaming on Netflix, set in Punjab and told largely in Punjabi. Created and written by Gunjit Chopra, Diggi Sisodia, and Sudip Sharma, the series follows police officers solving murders in the state's winter heartland while their own personal lives come apart in parallel. Its Punjabi title means fog, a word the show uses both for the weather that hangs over its crime scenes and for the obscurities in its characters' relationships.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Punjabi-language investigative crime drama on Netflix; two seasons, rated U/A 16+³
Creators	Gunjit Chopra, Diggi Sisodia, and Sudip Sharma¹
Season 1	Six episodes, directed by Randeep Jha, produced by Clean Slate Filmz, announced for 15 July 2023¹^•⁴
Season 1 case	Cops Balbir and Garundi investigate the death of an NRI who had returned to his hometown to marry¹^•⁵
Season 2	Premiered 11 February 2026; Mona Singh joins as Sub-Inspector Dhanwant Kaur opposite Barun Sobti's Garundi⁶
Reception	Season 1 holds a 100% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes (12 reviews); the series received over 20 awards, including a Best Series Award in Melbourne²^•⁷

Spoilers

Season 1

The first season opens with a couple in a fog-covered field where a bludgeoned body is soon discovered. The victim is a non-resident Indian who had come back to his hometown in Punjab to get married, and the investigation falls to two policemen, Balbir (Suvinder Vicky) and Garundi (Barun Sobti). Early episodes link the dead man to his wedding and to a missing foreigner, while a father's grief pulls him toward violence.⁵^•³

The season ran six episodes and was directed by Randeep Jha, whose earlier credits include Trial by Fire and Halahal. The cast also included Harleen Sethi, Manish Chaudhari, Varun Badola, and Rachel Shelley, and the production came from Karnesh Ssharma's Clean Slate Filmz.⁴^•¹

Season 2

Netflix announced a second season in August 2024, and it premiered on 11 February 2026. The new case is set in the town of Dalerpura, where a woman (played by Pooja Bhamrrah) is found dead in her brother's barn and her husband (Rannvijay Singha) is among the suspects. Barun Sobti returns as Assistant Sub-Inspector Amarpal Garundi, now posted away from his home station of Jagrana and working under a new commanding officer, Sub-Inspector Dhanwant Kaur (Mona Singh), whose methodical style contrasts with Garundi's instinctive approach.⁷^•⁶

New production setup. Season 2 is a Film Squad Production in association with Act Three, produced by Saurabh Malhotra, Sudip Sharma, Manuj Mittra, and Tina Tharwani, and it marks Sharma's debut as a director, working alongside Faisal Rahman. Chopra and Sisodia returned as co-creators and writers.⁹ Netflix India's series head Tanya Bami described the show as the platform's "cult classic" and credited Sharma's craftsmanship, noting that the new season keeps the setting rooted in Punjab's wintry terrain.⁹

Themes and title

Showrunner Sudip Sharma, previously known for Paatal Lok, has said that love and fog, not murder, were the starting points of the writing. The murder arrived later as a vehicle for the show's real subject: the fog in the characters' minds, relationships, and prejudices, which keeps the answer to the mystery just out of view even when it lies ahead of them.⁸

Love in its damaging forms runs through the season. India Today's review described a series in which love is messy, challenging, and also kills, with patriarchy and toxic masculinity at its core and the generational trauma they cause; one of Sharma's favorite lines in the show is "tussi bande hi zahar ho (all you men are just poison)".⁴ Sharma has said he initially hesitated to make another crime show so soon after Paatal Lok, but accepted the pitch from Gunjit Chopra and Diggi Sisodia because it treated the crime as secondary to relationships, lives, and the sub-societies of present-day Punjab.⁵

Reception

Season 1 drew strong critical response. Rotten Tomatoes recorded a 100% Tomatometer from 12 reviews, with a critics consensus calling it "a tightly constructed procedural featuring compellingly human investigators"; reviewers highlighted the lead performances of Suvinder Vicky and Barun Sobti and the show's use of "kohrra" (fog) as a metaphor extending beyond the mystery.² Netflix reported that the season received more than 20 awards, including a Best Series Award in Melbourne and wins for Best Web Series, Best Actor, Best Ensemble, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography at various ceremonies.⁷

Season 2 also scored 100% on the Tomatometer (8 reviews). Critics singled out Sobti's performance and the season's social lens; Hindustan Times gave it 4.5 out of 5, placing it alongside Delhi Crime and Paatal Lok among strong Indian second seasons, and Scroll.in noted its greater emphasis on the procedural mechanics of investigation.¹⁰

Language and availability

The series is primarily in Punjabi, with Hindi also used; Netflix offers audio description in English and Hindi and dubs in Tamil and Telugu. Both seasons stream on Netflix, where the show is listed as a drama with two seasons.³

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 › Premiered 2013 to 2024

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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