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Tandoor (2021 TV series)

Tandoor is an Indian Hindi-language crime thriller web series directed by Nivedita Basu and starring Rashami Desai and Tanuj Virwani, released on 23 July 2021 on the Ullu App.¹ Its first season consists of five episodes.²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Hindi-language web series, 1 season of 5 episodes, about 32 minutes per episode²^•³
Release	23 July 2021 on Ullu App¹
Director	Nivedita Basu¹
Lead cast	Rashami Desai as Palak, Tanuj Virwani as Sahil Sharma¹
Basis	The 1995 Delhi Tandoor murder case, with character names changed⁴^•⁵
Producer	Co-produced by Chandni Soni, who also produced Raktanchal⁶
IMDb rating	5.2/10 from about 1,200 users²

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Premise and source material

The series follows Palak (Rashami Desai), an aspiring politician who secretly marries her lover Sahil Sharma (Tanuj Virwani). When she wants to disclose the marriage to the media, her husband does not reciprocate her love, and she drifts away from him and finds solace with another man.⁷ The promotional synopsis describes a night in 1995 when a middle-aged man drives through the streets of Delhi carrying a suspicious large sack, and a constable on duty later discovers strange fumes from a bistro the man entered.⁸

The title refers to the Tandoor case, a 1995 Delhi murder in which, according to a Times of India review, a husband shot his wife, cut up her body, and burned it in the tandoor (clay oven) of his own restaurant; the case received extensive media coverage across India.⁴ The Aaj Tak report states the series was made about 26 years after the event and that the characters' names were changed.⁵ One streaming guide, Webisoda, describes the series as fictional and not based on a true story,⁸ which conflicts with the Times of India and Aaj Tak accounts; the review and news reports are more specific about the connection, and the review notes that the makers remained close to the original case by using similar character names and the sequence of events of the night of 2 July 1995.⁴

Production and release

Ullu Originals announced the series for release on 23 July 2021, with streaming also on MX Player Originals. At the launch press conference, producer Chandni Soni and lead actors Rashami Desai and Tanuj Virwani were present.⁶ Soni had earlier produced the Nikitin Dheer series Raktanchal.⁶

Desai's web debut. The series marked Rashami Desai's first web project. In an interview around the release, she described her character as a woman from Haryana who is ambitious and sorted but ends up in a situation she does not know how to handle, and noted the difficulty of switching between past and present timelines in the narrative.⁹ Aaj Tak reported that Tanuj Virwani gained 11 kg for the role.⁵

Later availability and reception

In December 2021 the series received a new platform release on Voot, with producer Chandni Soni describing the move to the larger platform as a milestone for the project.¹⁰ As of late 2026 listings, it streams in India with a VI movies and tv subscription and free with ads on Amazon MX Player and Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads.³

The series carries an A (adults only) age rating on streaming listings.³ On IMDb it holds a 5.2/10 rating from about 1,200 users, with individual episode ratings between 7.8 and 8.4.² The Times of India review gave the season 3.0 out of 5, praising the 1990s period detailing and Tanuj Virwani's performance as a man accused of killing his wife, while criticizing uneven production quality, repetitive non-linear execution, and slow-motion shots.⁴

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