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Masoom

Masoom (मासूम) is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller web series in which a young woman investigates the mysterious death of her bedridden mother, suspecting her father despite her family's resistance. It premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 17 June 2022 with all six episodes released the same day.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Premiere	17 June 2022, Disney+ Hotstar (Hotstar Specials); all six episodes released at once¹^•³
Format	Six-episode Hindi drama, mystery and thriller; average runtime about 32–33 minutes²^•⁴
Source material	Official remake of the 2018 Irish series Blood¹
Key creatives	Directed by Mihir Desai; showrunner Gurmmeet Singh; written by Satyam Tripathy⁵^•⁶
Lead cast	Boman Irani (Dr. Balraj Kapoor), Samara Tijori (Sana), Manjari Fadnis, Veer Rajwant Singh, Upasana Singh, Manu Rishi Chaddha⁷^•⁸
Setting	Falauli village in Punjab¹
Reception	IMDb 5.8/10 (455 votes); Ormax estimated 16.4 million viewers in the first half of 2022⁹^•¹⁰

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Premise

The series opens with the death of Madamji (Upasana Singh), the wife of Dr. Balraj Kapoor (Boman Irani), a respected figure in a Punjab village who is standing for elections. The youngest daughter, Sana (Samara Tijori), arrives from Delhi for the funeral and is immediately suspicious of the circumstances. While her older sister (Manjari Fadnis) and brother (Veer Rajwant Singh) accept their father's account of the death, Sana discovers her father's extramarital affair with a colleague and becomes convinced there is more to her mother's death than a fall. With help from a friendly local policeman (Manu Rishi Chaddha) and a friend (Akashdeep Arora), she investigates despite her family's disapproval, uncovering a web of closely guarded secrets.⁸^•¹¹^•¹²

The official synopsis describes 21-year-old Sana Kapoor driving down to her estranged family after news of her bedridden mother's mysterious death, finding her father, brother, and extended family hiding secrets that fuel her suspicions. Once her father's most loved child, she now shares a love-hate relationship with him as he demands she leave the house once the rituals are over, to stop her digging into the family's affairs.¹³

Episodes

All six episodes were released on 17 June 2022:²

Bhulekha (31 min): Sana arrives for her mother's funeral, senses things are not as they seem, and decides to find the truth even at the cost of her father's wrath.
Muqaddar (37 min): Sana reconnects with an old friend and uncovers a repressed memory as her suspicion of her father solidifies.
Rehnuma (33 min): The quest brings Sana face to face with unsavory characters and uncomfortable revelations.
Family Secrets (29 min): Confronted by danger, Sana takes a drastic step and the siblings trade their secrets.
Dheeth (24 min): Events take a toll on the family and Balraj's political aspirations suffer; Sana struggles with her relationship with her father.
Majnu (41 min): Loose ends are tied as the family learns to open up, and Sana gains closure, though a new chapter opens.

Production

Masoom was directed by Mihir Desai with Gurmmeet Singh as showrunner, the duo behind Mirzapur, and written by Satyam Tripathy as an adaptation of the 2018 Irish series Blood.⁵^•⁶ The trailer credits list Anand Bhaskar as composer, Ginny Diwan for lyrics and poetry, Vivek Shah as director of photography, and Manan Ashwin Mehta as editor, with production by Reliance Entertainment and Namit Sharma.³ The series marked Boman Irani's debut on streaming platforms; he described playing Sana's father as intense and gritty, and director Mihir Desai framed the story as "a daughter's hunt to know the truth when her whole family tries to conceal it".¹³

Reception

Critics gave the series mixed reviews. The Times of India rated the season 3.0/5, praising the atmospheric build, the gray characters, and the performances of the cast, particularly Samara Tijori in the lead, while noting that the effective build-up was squandered as the narrative stretched despite the limited six-episode run and left loopholes unanswered.⁸ Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express called it a serviceable thriller that was only intermittently effective and "strangely bloodless" overall.⁵ Scroll.in found that the question of whether Sana was justified in accusing her father or being gaslit soon lost its potency, and judged Irani's Balraj too monotonal, though it credited Tijori with a suitably nervy presence.¹¹ ThePrint called the plot weak and loophole-ridden but singled out Irani's performance.¹⁴ Moneycontrol highlighted the series' themes of family dysfunction, trauma, mental illness, and toxic behavior patterns.⁶

On audience measures, the season holds a 5.8/10 rating on IMDb from 455 votes.⁹ Ormax Media's viewership estimates placed Masoom among the most-watched Hindi streaming shows of the first half of 2022, with an estimated 16.4 million viewers, behind titles such as Rudra: The Edge of Darkness (35.2 million) and Aashram season 3 (34.3 million).¹⁰ The series is rated U/A 16+ and has been made available with dubs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, and Bengali.¹

References

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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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