Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV opined, "As a piercing look at Tihar, an absorbing story of a baptism by fire and an insightful snapshot of an era in the life of a nation, Black Warrant warrants bingeing on".Read at source
Black Warrant (TV series) 2025 
Synopsis
Black Warrant (TV series)
Black Warrant is 2025 Indian Hindi-language crime drama thriller television series based on the 2019 non-fiction book Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer by Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury, about Gupta's time as a jailer at Tihar Prisons. Created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh, it stars Zahan Kapoor as Gupta, alongside Rahul Bhat, Paramvir Singh Cheema, and Anurag Thakur.
- Director
- Vikramaditya Motwane
- Release
- 10 Jan 2025
- Studio
- Applause Entertainment
- Run time
- 50 min
- Language
- Hindi
Reviews
4 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Mixed
Wikipedia-cited reviews for Black Warrant (TV series) are mixed overall across 4 collected excerpts. The cited excerpts do not provide enough numeric scores for an aggregate.
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Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express wrote that the "series goes the full yard in attempting to unpack the intricate power structure and showcasing caste-and-religious hierarchies in rough-tough Tihar Jail".Read at source
The Hindu's Shilajit Mitra wrote, "Black Warrant is a grim, discomfiting series, and the flashes of levity and camaraderie only serve to reinforce the tone." He was also appreciative of the performances of Bhat, Zahan Kapoor, and Rajendra Gupta.Read at source
Writing for The Hollywood Reporter India, Rahul Desai termed it "skilfully written, performed and crafted" and took note of its ability to subverse "easy tropes and resolutions".Read at source
Details
Technical specs
- Release date
- 10 Jan 2025
- Run time
- 50 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Vikramaditya Motwane
- Studio
- Applause Entertainment
- Distributor
- Netflix
- Certificate
- TV-MA
Trivia
- The series stars Zahan Kapoor as Sunil Gupta, who was cast after a blind audition process.
- Rahul Bhat was cast as DSP Rajesh Tomar after the creators saw his performance in the 2023 film Kennedy.
- The show was produced by Applause Entertainment, which spent two and a half years on production before selling the finished product to Netflix.
- The series features real-life criminals Charles Sobhraj and Ranga-Billa, with Sidhant Gupta portraying Sobhraj.
- According to Netflix data, the series was streamed by 2.3 million viewers in its first three days.
Tags
Indian Series2025Crime DramaReleasedNot listed in source page
