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Kohrra Season 2: The Mona Singh-Barun Sobti Show Is A Near-Perfect Second Chapter

Reprising the first season’s format, Kohrra 2 unfolds as a procedural focused on the crime, not the criminal, elevating a competent whodunnit into a social drama where one feeds into the other.

Ishita+Sengupta
Feb 12, 2026

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IT IS NOT UNUSUAL for a good show to be renewed for a new season. What is unusual, however, is for the merit to be inherited, the voice to be sharpened, and the new work to feel like an organic extension and a distinct entity. One that occupies familiar space and yet grows new legs. Few showrunners in the Indian streaming landscape do it like Sudip Sharma. The sophomore season of Paatal Lok (2025), a structurally nuanced follow-up to a still-alive series, was an early example, and the new edition of Kohrra, marking his directorial debut, reiterates it.The form and format are still the same. A persuasive police procedural set in Punjab, spanning six episodes. Murder in a high-profile family opens the gate for a long-drawn investigation that eventually interrogates the soul of the state. Thrown in this cacophony is the fatigue of the officers headlining the case. During the course of the show, even their lives are revealed to be shaped and scarred by the turbulence of the space they all inhabit. In such a set-up, justice is offered, but the fairness scale is irrevocably broken.

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Sharma and Faisal Rehman, the co-directors, even keep the beats similar. In the first episode, the lifeless body of an NRI, Preet Bajwa (Pooja Bhamrah), is discovered. ASI Amarpal Jasjit Garundi (Barun Sobti), now a happily married man and having moved to a new village, Dalerpura (fictional), is tasked with finding the culprit. Joining him is senior officer Dhanwant Kaur (Mona Singh). They haven’t worked together before, and the rustiness shows. Garundi carefully measures his steps around her, and Dhanwant preemptively snaps at him. Momentum arrives soon.As it does for the show. Written by Gunjit Chopra, Diggi Sisodia and Sharma (the same team from the first season), season 2 of Kohrra unfolds on the surface as a solid procedural. A little probing and uncomfortable details seep in. Married with two kids, Preet had recently left her husband in America. At the time of her death, she was living in Punjab with her brother Baljinder Atwal (Anuraag Arora) and his family. More questioning leads to more details. She had fallen in love with a local musician, money was transferred from one account to the other, and in the aftermath of her death, key suspects are missing. The air is thick with fog and deceit. ALSO FROM THE AUTHOR | Kohrra: Netflix's Ambitious Police Procedural Is Rewarding — & Disturbing
Dhanwant and Garundi proceed with the investigation informed by the reality of the land. Their doubts are on men — the husband or the lover. Reasons are aplenty. Preet, a headstrong girl, had left her husband at the first sight of violence, but after having withdrawn a chunk of money from their joint account, was being threatened by him. The local musician is a crook, an unscrupulous man who uses women to his advantage. In the midst is Preet’s brother, an affluent poultry farmer who was indignant with his sister for asking for equal rights in the property and having an affair, even though he, too, has a relationship outside marriage.Although precedent proves that regimented questioning is a narrative decoy — that Kohrra is about the crime and not the criminal — the series commits to the surface with resilience. Trails are tracked down and followed till the end, including a superb chase scene in Manali, scored to Sukhbir’s iconic, 'Taare Gin Gin'. The design is intricate and rewarding. The officers invest their all, trudging along even as their personal lives are upended. During the course of the investigation, Garundi’s pregnant sister-in-law comes to stay with them — a development that alters his marriage. After duty hours, Dhanwant surveys local bars to bring her intoxicated husband home. One hears that she lost a teenage son, and one sees that she is trying to conceive through IVF again, even as her husband refuses to relent. In Kohrra 2, a surprise Paatal Lok reunion? Read more
Men, oppressive, indifferent and unfeeling, abound in the series. There are recurring scenes of them charging at women. In a quieter scene, a man can be seen dozing off to a television comedy show where the host waxes eloquent about Animal Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s hypermasculine film. Despite the reference to fog embedded in the title, hinting at the smokescreen design of the show, Kohrra’s attunement to patriarchs feels less like a red herring and more like a renewed reckoning with the place. Standing in the afterglow of the first season, it comes across almost as a perverse wish, especially for someone like Garundi — the connecting link between the past and the present — that this is all the moral squalor his hometown is capable of. That, if they are cursed with history sticking to their feet like a wrong turn, then conservatism is the only heirloom they possess.In any other show, validating such culpability would be enough. But Kohrra which will possibly go down as one of the finest longform works this year, excavates further. Running parallel to this is another track of a young boy, Arun Kumar (Prayrak Mehta), a migrant from Jharkhand who has come looking for his father, the man he hasn’t seen since birth but carries a crumpled photograph of. This thread occurs unobtrusively, and as it keeps expanding with every episode, it stitches together the core of Kohrra where the past not just informs the present but holds it hostage, and, in doing so, hollows out the characters from inside. No one is untouched, not even Garundi, who possibly tries the hardest to make a fresh start with Silky. The revelation at the end pronounces a man as guilty. And while this is familiar, the outing shifts the goalpost, insisting instead that guilt lies in inaction rather than in action, in the agreement to do nothing rather than in doing something hasty. In the hubris of the select few to craft a world where the guilty are persecuted even before being imprisoned.
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This moral ambiguity elevates Kohrra from a competent whodunnit to a social drama where one feeds into the other. The porosity also makes space for some of the most incredible performances on streaming. There has been a lot of conversation about casting in the last couple of years, but the series asserts the merit of the process with full force (Nikita Grover is credited with it). The usual suspects are great. Singh is having quite a year already (it is only February and this is her third release after Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos and Border 2), and here she is rousingly effective as Dhanwant. The actor brings an exhaustion to the role that carries a lifetime's worth of subtext. It is an incredible turn amplified by the coarse Punjabi coming out of her mouth. Matching her is Sobti, an actor incapable of delivering a bad performance. He has a rare gift of occupying the frame without bringing attention to himself, and this selflessness melds perfectly with a character like Garundi, a man satisfied with standing behind a woman. Sobti brings a tactile charm to the role (there are returning shots of him offering water to Dhanwant) that is so self-contained that it is a thing of wonder.

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But there are others. Arora, long typecast as an angry patriarch, reprises the archetype with surprising tender flourishes. Pradhuman Singh Mall plays Jagdish, Dhanwant’s guilt-ridden husband. It is a deeply moving performance that keeps growing on you. On the contrary, the effectiveness of Prayrak Mehta as Arun Kumar hits like a ton of bricks. It is a bravura turn, so factual in the pathos it evokes that every time he is on screen, Kohrra appears to be non-fiction — a documentation of the first draft of living rather than its re-creation.Good shows know where to stop, great shows know there are no endings. Kohrra culminates with a near-perfect last episode, a symphony of grief played in the orchestra of life. The fog has lifted, and characters are returning home. In the wake, one realises that kohrra was as much a social construct – enabling some to perpetuate misdeeds – as it was a coping mechanism. For many, the only way to move ahead is by refusing to look at the past. Sharma insists that one has to turn and take ownership, and while penance is inevitable, it also lends a singular clarity: take care of the precious heart. Kohrra Season 2 ending explained: Devastating truth behind Preet Bajwa’s killer and haunting symbolism of the migrant labour twist Kohrra is currently streaming on Netflix.

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