‘Shekhar Home’ review: An irreverent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories
The six-episode series created by Srijit Mukherji and Aniruddha Guha is out on JioCinema.
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After inspiring several unauthorised knockoffs, Sherlock Holmes officially comes to India – sort of. Shekhar Home, featuring a Bengali avatar of Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective, is decidedly non-canonical in its approach and treatment.
From the silly pun involved in the title to Shekhar Home’s antics, the JioCinema series is light-hearted and insouciant, forever jabbing in the ribs of serious-minded Holmesians. Created by Aniruddha Guha and Srijit Mukherji, Shekhar Home is baggily based on Conan Doyle stories available in the public domain. Mukherji also directs four out of the six episodes written by Guha and Niharika Puri.
The overall tone is closest to the BBC series Sherlock led by Benedict Cumberbatch (Shekhar Home has been produced by BBC Studios India). Sherlock, apart from plonking Holmes in a contemporary setting, took massive liberties with the source material. Shekhar Home too plays with Doyle’s creations, laying out familiar and yet distinctive arcs for Shekhar (Kay Kay Menon) and the Watsonian Jayvrat (Ranvir Shorey).
Sherlock’s brother Mycroft is Mrinmay (Kaushik Sen), his housekeeper Mrs Hudson is Mrs Henry (Shernaz Patel) and the bumbling cop Lestrade is Laha (Rudranil Ghosh). Irene Adler, the only woman to pierce Holmes’s adamantine heart, is Irabaty (Rasika Dugal).
The Hindi-language show takes place between 1991 and 1993 in the fictitious town Lonpur. Shekhar arrives here...
