Grahan stars Zoya Hussain and Pavan Malhotra in leading roles. It is directed by Rajan Chandel. All 8 episodes of Grahan will start streaming from 24 June.

The trailer begins with riots that ensued after the assination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984. We hear the chants against Sikh community in the background while mobs torch houses. Now the story shifts to Ranchi in the year 2016.

We learn that the state government has decided to reopen the pending cases of the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots in Bokaro and have set up a Special Investigation Team to investigate it further.

Amrita Singh, City SP, is the incharge of the SIT. Amrita says that innumerable inquiries have been appointed for this case but the moment the election is over, the case files are closed. In the next scene we hear her father tell her that she is not cut out for the job because in her profession the honest and sincere will always be under duress.

Now a new character is introduced, DSP Vikas Mandal. He is the investigating officer.

We see flashes of a man called Rishi Ranjan who is responsible for kidnapping people and burning down the city during riots. Amrita receives an old picture of Rishi and recognises him as her father. We see her confronting her father about it and even asks him why he wasn’t wearing a turban in the photograph. Her father refuses to answer. 

Vikas tells Amrita that he is not going to share anymore information with her. In the last flashes of the trailer we learn that Rishi might have had a lover but the couple had to part ways for undisclosed reasons.

The trailer is very interesting. Grahan adds a fictional element and carves the story around a real event that shook the nation. The topic chosen is very sensitive and the writers of the story, 

Navjot Gulati, Prateek Payodhi and Vibha Singh will have to approach the story with care. Provisions should be taken to ensure the amount of creative liberties taken do not hurt sentiments of the people who were victims of the heinous riots.

The book on which the show is based has a lot of romance in it as per reviews but the show seems to be built around a serious mood.

From the trailer it looks as if Amrita will have to face the moral dilemma of either taking the investigation further and incriminating her father or hiding clues and evidence that comes up in her inquiry to save him.

I hope the adaptation does justice to the book.