Review: Charlie Chopra & The Mystery Of Solang Valley Is Watchable

A whodunit that may appear outmoded but continues to be enduringly appealing - the book from which this web series is adapted, Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery, was first published in 1931 - receives a lively, absorbing and nifty makeover in Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley.

Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj from a script he wrote with Anjum Rajabali and Jyotsna Hariharan, the six-episode SonyLIV series centres on a murder foretold and a wrongful arrest, which forces an amateur sleuth to swing into action in a terrain where danger lurks at every corner.

Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley takes liberties, often frothily so, with the source novel and rustles up situations and thinks up character quirks that serve not only to significantly indigenize the story but also to update it for contemporary sensibilities. The result isn't instantly scintillating but as Charlie Chopra's investigation unfolds, the show grows on you.