Best Indian mystery series

A newly minted military interrogator arrives at a covert detention center to discover that some of the terrorists held there are not of this world.

Set in the backdrop of the mystical city of Varanasi, Asur follows Nikhil Nair, a forensic-expert-turned-teacher, who returns to his roots at the Central Bureau of Investigation, and along with his former mentor Dhananjay Rajpoot, finds himself caught in a cat-and-mouse game with a brutal serial killer. What follows is a blend of suspense, mythology and the murders of some people totally unrelated.

The series follows Himmat Singh of Research and Analysis Wing who draws similar patterns in terrorist attacks and is convinced a single person is behind all the attacks. His task force team of five agents living in various parts of the world aim to catch the mastermind. The story is based on an inspiration taken from nineteen years worth of national significant events.

Sex, drugs and a gruesome murder. An edgy one night stand turns into a nightmare for Aditya, when he wakes up with blood on his hands. The evidence is stacked against him, but he doesn't remember the grisly crime. Is he guilty or not ?

A minor girl goes missing in a small town in Tamilnadu and an investigation follows. A sub inspector investigating a missing girl's case in a uncovers some shocking revelations and dirty truths those threaten to shake up the cultural societal fabric.

After a foreign teenage tourist goes missing in a misty village, Kasturi, a frazzled local cop, is forced to team up with her city-bred successor, Angad, on a high-profile case that unearths skeletons and resurrects a long-forgotten legend of a savage serial killer in the woods.

Three young friends in Goa plan to search an old villa for ghosts, but when a new family, accompanied by their attractive daughter moves in, the home's buried past resurfaces in chilling ways and the amateur ghost hunters must spring into action.

Women are disappearing without a trace in Rajasthan and nobody seems surprised. But police officer Anjali Bhaati notices a similarity in the cases: long nightly phone calls and a boyfriend that no one in the neighbourhood has ever seen.

Relentlessly pursued by a powerful politician’s daughter who will do anything to make him hers, a man slips down a dark, risky path to reclaim his life.

A 6-year old girl is kidnapped by a mysterious masked man, who demands an unusual ransom. To save his daughter, Dr. Avinash Sabharwal must kill someone! Meanwhile, Kabir Sawant's journey continues in the hostile environment of the Delhi Crime branch. Lies, deceit and mind games begin when Kabir is given charge of the investigation, and meets Avinash.

Rana Naidu can solve any problem in Bollywood. But when his father is suddenly released from prison, the one mess he can’t handle may be his own.

Tandav is the coming together of different worlds under the gamut of politics. It is a dramatic take of the powerplay between people at the highest level where they get overthrown by others to secure their position. Young and upcoming student politicians are also featured and we get to see where their future is headed in this dark abyss of politics.

Journalist Sagar's life turns thrilling as he unravels dark secrets behind newspaper clippings predicting tragedies. He becomes a murder suspect, racing against time to clear his name and solve the enigma and faces dangerous twists. Suspense builds in this roller-coaster ride.

Madhav Mishra is back to fight his toughest case yet nothing is simple and straightforward. Will justice win?

What made Anu Chandra stab her perfect husband? The evidence and confession are clear, but what's the truth?

Madhu moves into a hostel in Delhi to start afresh, but her room hides a sinister presence that begins to get stronger each day, alarming the other women on her floor. They know what the room hides and desperately want her gone before it is too late for them all.

The man. The legend. The mystery. He fascinated us in life, and long after his "death". This is the story of India's biggest cover-up: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and the mystery of his alleged death.

When a series of ritualistic murders shakes a small town, a detective and an ex-cop must investigate a mystery with deep ties to their pasts.

A medical thriller set in the Emergency Room of a government hospital. The series explores the challenges faced by the medical staff at the hospital as well as other first responders across the city of Mumbai in dealing with a crisis of immense magnitude. In this battle to save lives and heal others, the ones doing the fixing are the most broken.

A sex worker's mysterious and gruesome murder in a suburban lodge called "Grand Tourist Home" baffles the police as the only lead they have is a fake address.

Vivek, a diligent cop, takes charge of the investigation of the murder of a beautiful young girl, Velonie. The rumours about her that spring up post her death threatens to irrevocably damage Velonie's image, Vivek must wade through a web of half-truths and confusing leads to solve the case.

A rebellious vampire with a broken tooth falls for a shy dentist on the streets of Kolkata but will human and mystical forces keep them apart?

A unique case falls into Madhav Mishra's lap, and it is neither simple nor straightforward.

Vikrant aka Vicky Rai, industrialist with a Casanova lifestyle, is killed at his own party to celebrate his acquittal in the rape and murder of two young girls. His father, Jagannath Rai, who is also the Home Minister of Chhattisgarh, demands a CBI inquiry. Officers Suraj Yadav and Sudha Bharadwaj lead the investigation following six suspects.

A grieving mother discovers the criminals behind her daughter's tragic death, and transforms from meek to merciless to get the real story.

A celebrated crime novelist suffering from Alzheimer's is found at a murder scene with no memory of what happened. Now, it is up to his daughter to save him.

Guilty Minds is a legal drama about one family that is the paragon of virtue and the other, a leading law firm dealing with all shades of grey.

A disgraced IAS Officer sets out to vindicate herself and takes up a strange case in Shilaspura,a land with occult practices.

Strange events take place in the Nilgiri Valley School that seem to be connected to Vedant, a 10-year-old new student. When the batch of 2007 returns for its reunion, Adhiraj Jaisingh, an ex-student must face what he did fifteen years ago. But things take a horrifying turn when Vedant and Adhiraj's paths collide. A dark secret begins to reveal itself threatening the lives of everyone on campus.

This supernatural series narrates the story of a vampire, Abhay who falls in love with Piya, a human and how they reunite despite all odds.

Set in the cold winter of Himalayas, Candy revolves around a horrific murder mystery of a high-school student which forces an agonized teacher and a crooked cop to bury their differences and hunt down the killer.

This thriller series focuses on an anti-terrorist unit agent named Jai Singh Rathod who has twenty-four hours to save the country from a major terrorist attack.

Paridhi, a cop undergoing a stressful personal situation, must solve a mysterious murder case that has put the police department on its toes.

An assassination attempt on Mumbai's most powerful politician triggers a dirty game of power and politics in the Gaikwad family. With his son and daughter racing to the throne, lines between moral and immoral blur and a lot is at stake

In the race to make the next money-spinning drug, saving lives takes a backseat and people become less than human.

An esteemed judge who forgoes his moralities and relationships and goes on to undermine ethics in order to save his son who gets involved in a hit and run case.

The time is 1930s, and crime is culminating. One man can uproot the sin: Satyanweshi Byomkesh Bakshi. Hoichoi Originals brings Bengal’s popular sleuth in an all-new but familiar avatar.

A sceptic one-eyed crime branch Inspector Rishi Nandhan assisted by his two trusted sub-inspectors Ayyanar and Chitra, investigates strange and mind-bending cases involving supernatural or paranormal phenomena. He stops at nothing in his efforts to find the truth behind unexplainable murders while also battling various challenges in his personal life.

What if two individuals share the same destiny- the same palm lines, then what would happen? Samantar is a story about a young man Kumar Mahajan, whose life changes after he goes on journey to find, Sudarshan Chakrapani, a man who shares the same destiny with him. The life that Kumar is living is the life that Chakrapani has already lived. Will Kumar be able to control his present or change his future after meeting Chakrapani?

A mysterious young shaman, on the run protecting a secret gift, joins hands with a seasoned city cop to hunt down a dangerous figure from his dark past. But when he falls for the cop's young daughter, he is torn between duty and love.

Separated at childhood, Divya and Drishti attain super powers - to not only see the future, but also manipulate it. However, their own future lies in the hands of an evil Pishachini.

Young, socially awkward yet morally grounded SI cadet Brinda stumbles upon a brutal murder with a chilling modus operandi. As the killer slips through her grasp, she faces personal and bureaucratic turmoil, but the hardest challenge is the moral reckoning that could define her career and conscience. Will Brinda uphold justice, or lose herself in the chaos closer to home?

Adalat is a show revolving around KD Pathak, a suave, sophisticated, witty and yet unconventional lawyer who is known as a ‘Houdini’ in circles of law because he can get his clients out of the tightest of situations. His success rate of acquittals is 100 percent. But most importantly KD stands not for his client, but for Justice. KD has an amazing eye for detail and an insatiable thirst for knowledge. He always seems to know enough about every profession, and what he doesn’t know he covers up/makes up with his smartness. A quick thinker. KD steps into a case when all is doomed for the accused. All the doors are shut. When the prosecution has prepared a water tight open and shut case where even a blind man can tell that the accused is guilty. But no one can see the case from the angle KD does.

The first thrilling investigative series on Indian Television, is today one of the most popular shows on Sony Entertainment Television. Dramatic and absolutely unpredictable, Crime Investigation Department (C.I.D.) has captivated viewers over the last eleven years and continues to keep audiences glued to their television sets with its thrilling plots and excitement. Also interwoven in its fast-paced plots are the personal challenges that the C.I.D. team faces with non-stop adventure, tremendous pressure and risk, all in the name of duty. The series consists of hard-core police procedural stories dealing with investigation, detection and suspense. The protagonists of the serial are an elite group of police officers belonging to the Crime Investigation Department of the police force, led by ACP Pradyuman.

What do you do when justice itself is out of order? A racy legal drama, set in the lesser-known world of a high-end law firm where justice is measured against billable hours and the lawyers are seldom on the right side of the law. Enter the infamous ‘Mad Lawyer’ Niharika Singh who will fight tooth and nail for justice… even if that means standing up against her own firm and the hotshot lawyer Janardhan Jaitley

In the desolate hinterlands of Tamil Nadu, a stranded urbanite enlists the help of three locals to find his missing family believed to have been abducted by nefarious beings of a cursed village. Meanwhile, a maniacal heir to a pharma empire sends a group of mercenaries to the same village to retrieve something long forgotten. Will they come out of this terror-stricken night alive?

An intelligent detective from Kolkata solves many mystery that unsolved by police without any weapons.

In the midst of a pandemic, Sahil Gujral goes missing. Thought to be a victim of the coronavirus at first, his death points to a mysterious crime. Sahil's sister and father takes matter into their own hand to find what actually happened.

Miltary lawyer,Major Monica Mehra,is roped in to solve, what seems like an open and shut case, of the death of an army officer, killed by militants in an encounter. The truth is far from what it appears to be. Will she crack the code?

Eken Babu is not your average, middle-aged Bengali man. He is Ekendra Sen, a detective extraordinaire who effortlessly cracks complex cases in his own quirky style. And wherever a mystery takes him, he is accompanied by his friends, Bapi and Pramatha.

After the Sino-India war, a highly trained Indian spy enters Pakistan on a mission to gather crucial intelligence and stop Pakistan from launching an attack against India. Will he succeed?

A Food Delivery Guy, who finds a bloody corpse of a young woman in the middle of a night & A Female Police Inspector investigating a missing child's case collide into each other as they meet with a fatal accident, which sends both of them into a Never ending time loop until they figure out an Unimaginable way out of it.

A rich man dead, a town full of suspects, narratives filled with lies and an innocent convict. How will Charlie navigate through the mystery when every face hides a secret?

Crime Patrol attempts to bring stories of crime happening all around the country. However the case presentation would be a story telling form that would have the interest of a fiction drama presentation. The prelude and finale to the case would make the case a complete story. Interactions with the analysts on the show would be treated with the audience interest point of view keeping it only as much as essential to the story telling. Going beyond the drama of police action in a crime situation, the show also aims to look into the "why" behind a crime. Police action on one hand gives the show the edge of how the law keepers bring the culprits to book or stop a crime from being committed. On the other hand, the show will also be looking at the sociological aspect behind a crime- both from the victim as well as the criminal's side. The cases would be driven by cameras moving along with the police force from the time a crime is reported or when the police receive a call till the point the case is brought to a logical conclusion in the police records for further movement in the court of law.

Haunted by flashes of a tragic past, a private investigator, Meenakshi Iyer, aka P.I. Meena, starts investigating what seems like a routine hit-and-run case, only to discover that there's more to it than meets the eye and becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy that is tearing apart the worlds of everyone who comes close to it.

Follows the events leading up to the tragic 1991 assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and the intense manhunt that unfolded after , unraveling a complex web of espionage, intelligence failures, shifting allegiances, and the profound human cost involved in the pursuit of justice.

22-year-old Rivanah shifts to Mumbai from Kolkata and notices that someone is following and blackmailing her. This someone is voiceless, faceless, nameless and is forcing her to "know her worth". Even though he is stalking her and making her miserable, she is drawn to the Stranger and soon realizes that he is actually helping her. But everything comes at a cost, as the stranger’s obsession with her and eventually hers with him leads her down a dangerous path, affecting her life and the lives of all those around her.

A housewife is forced to take full responsibility of her family after her husband is imprisoned over a corruption and sex scandal.

"ATMARAM Insights" is a journey into the teachings of Samarth Ramdas Swami's 'ATMARAM', unraveling the profound path from surrender to liberation. Through in-depth commentary and historical context, this series/documentary sheds light on ancient wisdom and its relevance to the modern world.

Shanmugam does not spare the rod and spoil his children. But despite his strict nature, they go on a joyride on his bike and get lost. What will he do now?

Amid a sprawling border of our country, begins the journey of a young Pakistani mother who comes into India through strange series of circumstances and is unable to go back home. The series revolves around the relationship between this accused militant and her lawyer who makes her justice, his mission. Will his mission and her dream ever come true?

A tale of two women who are at odds with each other over allegations of plagiarism, which sparks a series of hostilities and shocking revelations spun around a murder for which they both are suspects.

Meera begins to suspect every female associate of Akarsh, her husband after she found a stray hair which is not hers. After discussing with her friend, she thought she might be over reactive but does not stop digging up for finding the evidence.

Set in 1998 UP, this is the story of a dynamic cop leading a Special Task Force which becomes instrumental in eliminating a dreaded weapons cartel.

Seeds of crime, ploys of destruction, and legends of a hidden treasure lurk in an erstwhile royal fort of Jankigarh. Shotyaneshi Byomkesh Bakshi returns, along with Ajit and Satyabati, to unravel the mysteries in the dark hallways of the mysterious fortress.

Explore the journey of Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati's love, duty, sacrifice, and separation.