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Touch Me Not

Touch Me Not (టచ్ మీ నాట్) is a 2025 Indian Telugu-language mystery thriller web series directed by Ramana Teja and written by Chaarvi Murari, an official remake of the 2019 Korean drama He Is Psychometric. It follows Rishi, a young man who can perceive the past of people and objects through touch, as he helps police investigate a serial-killer case while being stalked by an enigmatic murderer.¹^•² The series premiered on JioHotstar on 4 April 2025.¹

Key fact	Detail
Original release	4 April 2025, JioHotstar¹
Format	One season of six episodes, average runtime about 31 minutes²
Source material	Official remake of the 2019 Korean drama He Is Psychometric, created by Jin Ah Yang¹^•³
Lead cast	Navdeep as SP Raghav Rao, Dheekshith Shetty as Rishi, Komalee Prasad as Megha, Sanchitha Poonacha as Devika⁴
Key crew	Music Mahati Swara Sagar, cinematography Gokul Bharathi, editing Anwar Ali, Telugu dialogues Venkatesh Nimmalapudi³
Languages	Telugu original, also streaming in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, and Marathi⁵
IMDb rating	4.8/10 from 181 votes⁶

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Premise and plot

The story begins in 2009 in Hyderabad, during the Diwali festival, when four women are murdered at Maruthi Apartment and the killer escapes after triggering a gas leak that sets the building on fire.⁷ Raghav (Navdeep) loses his mother in the blaze, and Rishi (Dheekshith Shetty) loses his parents.⁴ The building's watchman (Devi Prasad) is falsely blamed for the tragedy and jailed; his daughter Megha (Komalee Prasad) grows up to become a policewoman and is a college mate of Rishi.⁴^•⁸

While escaping the fire, Rishi suffers a head injury that leaves him with psychometry, the supposed ability to discover facts about an event or person by touching objects associated with them.⁴^•¹ Ten years later, Raghav has become a Superintendent of Police who raised both Rishi and Megha, and a new hospital fire kills several people, reopening the old case.⁴^•⁹ Raghav turns to Rishi's ability to investigate, and the team works the case while an unseen killer stalks them.² Raghav's assistant Devika (Sanchitha Poonacha) is devoted to him, though her feelings are unreciprocated.⁸

Production and adaptation

The series was produced by Sunitha Tati, Yuvraj Karthikeyan, and Vamsi Bandaru under Guru Films, with Ramana Teja directing and Chaarvi Murari adapting the screenplay.³ It is officially based on He Is Psychometric, created by Jin Ah Yang and originally produced and distributed by Studio Dragon Corporation and CJ ENM.³ The Animal Welfare Board of India recorded no-objection certificate applications for the Telugu web series in January and February 2024, indicating production was underway more than a year before release.¹⁰

JioHotstar released the trailer on 19 March 2025, presenting the psychometry premise and the serial-killer investigation.¹ The trailer was published on the JioHotstar Telugu YouTube channel on 18 March 2025 and drew over 2.3 million views.³

Release and reception

All six episodes streamed on JioHotstar from 4 April 2025, in Telugu with dubs in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, and Marathi.¹^•⁵ TVmaze lists the series as ended after its single season.²

Critical response was mixed. Reviewers consistently praised the performances while criticizing the execution. OTTplay gave 3/5, calling it a decent adaptation with taut performances and a satisfying payoff, though noting that key investigative scenes were rushed.⁴ Sakshi Post found it emotionally engaging but lacking investigative depth, with a slow, backstory-heavy first episode.⁹ Telugu outlets were harsher: 123telugu rated it 2.25/5, criticizing the slow pace and heavy drama;¹¹ Big TV Live gave 2/5;¹² ABP Telugu gave 2.5/5;⁵ and Filmy Focus gave 1.5/5.¹³ News India Times, rating it 1.5 stars, called the narrative confused and argued that changing the killer's identity from the Korean original required reworking the adaptation did not deliver.⁸ On IMDb the series holds 4.8/10 from 181 votes.⁶

Performances drew the strongest praise. Komalee Prasad's portrayal of Megha Chandra, transforming from a vulnerable student to a determined police officer, was singled out by several reviewers as a highlight.¹⁴ Navdeep's restrained turn as Raghav and Dheekshith Shetty's conflicted Rishi were also noted, though one review found Shetty's frequent muttering during psychometric readings grating.⁹^•⁸ Telangana Today credited the series with treating psychometry seriously rather than sensationalizing it, and with framing its mystery as a question of why rather than who.¹⁵

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 › Premiered 2021 to 2025

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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