# Mandala Murders (2025)

> A detective and an ex-cop investigate a string of ritualistic murders in a small town, uncovering a mystery entangled with their own pasts.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/163369

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 40 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama, mystery
- Created by: Gopi Puthran
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Vaani Kapoor, Vaibhav Raj Gupta, Surveen Chawla, Manu Rishi Chadha, Kiran Karmarkar, Rahul Bagga, Anang Desai, Raghubir Yadav
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26626214/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: graphic
- Tone: tense, brooding, atmospheric, bleak, paranoid

## Synopsis

Mandala Murders (2025) is a Hindi-language Indian crime thriller limited series created by Gopi Puthran for Netflix. When a series of ritualistic murders shakes a small town, a detective and an ex-cop must dig into a case with deep ties to their own pasts. Vaani Kapoor plays Rea Thomas and Vaibhav Raj Gupta plays Vikram Singh, the two investigators whose personal histories become tangled with the killings, while Surveen Chawla appears as Ananya Bhardwaj in a principal role. The engine of the story is the slow pull of clues that seem to point toward local belief and ritual, with each episode peeling back another layer of suspicion among townspeople and officials. Across eight episodes of roughly forty minutes each, the series builds as one continuing investigation rather than a case of the week, giving it the shape of a compact, self-contained serialized mystery. The setting is a small Indian town where old traditions and modern policing collide. The tone is tense and brooding, with a steady undercurrent of dread and moral unease. Fans of Sacred Games, Mare of Easttown and True Detective will find resonance in its blend of atmospheric small town dread, ritual mythology and investigators haunted by the past.

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