‘Shodha’ review: A predictable thriller about a lawyer who refuses to accept his wife

Shodha claims to be based on a play titled Catch Me If You Can – the first of many lies uttered during the six-episode series on ZEE5.

Sunil Mysuru’s Kannada show, written by Suhas Navarathna, stars acclaimed director Pawan Kumar as Rohit, a hotshot lawyer from Madikeri in Karnataka’s Kodagu district. Rohit approaches police inspector Bhairava (Arun Sagar) after his wife Meera (Siri Ravikumar) goes missing.

Meera turns up, but it’s now Rohit’s turn to be lost. Following a car accident, Rohit declares that the woman who says that she is my wife and the mother of our child Tara (Diya Hegde) is lying.

Meera and her sister Aditi (Anusha Ranganath) are flummoxed, while Bhairava is plain annoyed. Having already developed a distaste for Rohit, Bhairava finds himself the unwilling recipient of Rohit’s paranoia-laced complaints about “that woman in the house” who’s a liar and possible fraudster.

The mystery behind the actual source of the show, and the air itself, clears up by episode three – not because of any sleuthing by sharp viewers with long memories, but because a key character spills the beans. From then on, the only question is whether the makers will play the sympathy-for-the-devil card or actually pursue justice.

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