The Hunt for a Murderer Takes Center Stage in ‘Kohrra’ Trailer

Starring Suvinder Vicky and Barun Sobti, the Indian Noir Series debuts on Netflix this July. Netflix recently debuted the first trailer for its upcoming noir thriller series Kohrra, starring Suvinder Vicky and Barun Sobti as police officers investigating a murder in the heartland of India. Kohrra is mainly set in the state of Punjab, which remains largely unrepresented in mainstream Indian cinema. Described as a “masterful exploration of human nature” where the search for justice “becomes intertwined with the politics of interpersonal relationships,” Kohrra, which translates to “fog” in Hindi, is set for release later this month.

The trailer opens with a young couple discovering a dead body in a field. The police are summoned, and immediately begin questioning the victim’s family members. They discover the victim was an N.R.I. — a non-resident Indian — who’d just returned home from abroad to get married. Suspicion falls on his fiancé, of course, but also on her ex-boyfriend, with whom she is still in contact. The cops also contemplate the involvement of a gang, but everybody is left scratching their heads over one aspect of the case: the victim’s friend, a British national named Liam, who went missing on the same day as the murder. “Love blurs the lines between right and wrong,” reads the text on screen, as the trailer implies that the victim was murdered by somebody close to them. “We spend our entire lives without really understanding our own family,” one of the cops — our veteran protagonist’s younger partner — says over a glass of alcohol one evening, as the trailer cuts to dramatic action beats and ominous revelations.