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The Raikar Case

The Raikar Case is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language thriller web series directed by Aditya Sarpotdar and streamed on Voot Select, built around the death of the youngest member of a wealthy Goa-based business family and the investigation that follows.¹^•² It runs for seven episodes of roughly 30 minutes each and stars Atul Kulkarni, Ashwini Bhave, Parul Gulati, Neil Bhoopalam, Kunal Karan Kapoor, and Lalit Prabhakar.¹

Key fact	Detail
Format	1 season, 7 episodes of about 26 to 34 minutes; Hindi language, thriller genre, certificate 16+³^•⁴
Director and writers	Directed by Aditya Sarpotdar; written by Karmanya Ahuja, Bijesh Jayarajan, Chinmay Mandlekar, and Anitha Nair³
Production	Bodhi Tree Multimedia with Voot; producers include Sukesh Motwani, Mautik Tolia, Aakansha Bisht, and Persis Siganporia³^•⁵
Lead cast	Atul Kulkarni as patriarch Yashwant Naik Raikar, Ashwini Bhave as Sakshi, Parul Gulati as Etasha, Neil Bhoopalam as SP John Pereira⁶
Release	Listed as 24 March 2020 by Gadgets360 and IMDb, while promotional coverage announced streaming from 9 April 2020 on Voot Select³^•¹
Reception	IMDb rating 6.8/10 from about 2,700 votes (unweighted mean 7.8); Times of India critic rating 3.5/5⁷^•⁸
Current availability	Streaming on JioHotstar, free with ads, after Voot's shutdown-era migration⁶

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Premise and plot

The series opens with Tarun Naik Raikar (Honey Kamboj), the youngest son of the Naik Raikar family, standing at the edge of a cliff, blaming his family, and jumping to his death in front of his cousin Etasha (Parul Gulati). Superintendent of Police John Pereira (Neil Bhoopalam) declares the death a murder rather than a suicide, and the question of who killed Tarun and why drives the story.⁹

The family at the center is described as Goa's leading business family, headed by patriarch Yashwant (Atul Kulkarni), a cashew businessman and Rajya Sabha aspirant who took charge of the household after losing his brother and niece in a car accident four years earlier, and his wife Sakshi (Ashwini Bhave). After Tarun's death, secrets held by each family member begin to surface, and every member becomes a suspect with a motive to kill.²^•¹⁰ Other pivotal characters include a local politician and his son Eklavya (Lalit Prabhakar), who has anger management issues.²

The story unfolds largely from Etasha's standpoint as she works with Pereira to establish whether Tarun's death was suicide or murder.¹ The writers use a Rashomon structure, presenting varying versions of the death, and each episode focuses on one suspect's probable motive.²^•⁹

Ending: Reception

Ending. Like Voot Select's earlier series Marzi, The Raikar Case ends ambiguously, and several reviews noted that the final episode's hook was designed to lead into a second season.⁹^•²^•⁸

Production and release

The series was produced by Bodhi Tree Multimedia for Voot, the streaming platform of Viacom18, with cinematography by Manoj Soni, editing by Kathikuloth Praveen, and music by Nayantara Bhatkal and Aditya N. (credited as Aditya-Nayantara).³^•⁵ Its trailer was released in early April 2020, and promotional material claimed the story was inspired by true events.¹¹ A review in The Bridge Chronicle states the series is not inspired by the actual Raikar case that occurred in Goa years earlier.¹²

Release dating differs across sources. Gadgets360, IMDbPro, and TVmaze list the first episode as released on 24 March 2020, while mid-day, The Indian Express, and Scroll announced streaming from 9 April 2020 on Voot Select.³^•¹³^•¹^•¹¹ The series was later made available on JioHotstar, where it streams free with ads, and is also offered through Tata Play Binge and Airtel Xstream Play with audio options in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Kannada.⁶^•⁴^•¹⁴

Reception

Critical response. Reviews were mixed but generally found the performances stronger than the mystery. The Indian Express called it an engaging whodunnit whose main selling point is its able cast, praising Atul Kulkarni as the family patriarch and Ashvini Bhave, while noting that the pace suffers at times in the build-up to the ending.⁹ Scroll.in found plenty of family drama but not enough mystery, criticizing a script that takes sweeping liberties and an investigation that happens arbitrarily or coincidentally.² The Times of India gave the season 3.5 out of 5, writing that the riveting part is not who did it but how it all unfolds, and that the final episode's uncertain climax sets up a next season.⁸ The Deccan Herald judged the basic plot gripping but the screenplay less compelling than expected, with the first two episodes lacking urgency.¹⁵ Hindustan Times praised the performances and the Goa locations but called loose writing the show's undoing.¹⁰

Audience ratings. On IMDb the series holds 6.8/10 from about 2,700 votes, with an unweighted mean of 7.8; per-episode user ratings range from 8.1 to 8.6 across the seven episodes.⁷ Gadgets360 lists a user rating of 2.5/5 alongside the 6.8/10 IMDb figure.³

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 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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