Name: Brown
Director: Abhinay Deo
Genre: Crime
Released: 2026-06-05
Cast: Karisma Kapoor, Jisshu Sengupta, Soni Razdan, Meghna Malik, Surya Sharma

Synopsis

Brown

Rita Brown is a detective with the Kolkata Police Force from the city's Anglo-Indian community. She is a recovering alcoholic assigned to investigate the murder of a teenager from a well-connected Kolkata family. The case pulls her into layers of corruption and concealed history, while she is simultaneously managing her own addiction and its effects on her work. Jisshu Sengupta plays a psychiatrist connected to the investigation.

Director: Abhinay Deo
Release: 5 Jun 2026 · Week recap

Cast & crew

Karisma Kapoor Rita Brown

Jisshu Sengupta Sandip Chakraborty

Soni Razdan Janice Brown

Meghna Malik Nonnie Jaiswal SU Surya Sharma Arjun Sinha HE Helen Aunt Bertha SH Shaan Nitin Goswami AJ Ajinkya Deo Dheeraj Jaiswal PA Paresh Pahuja Sanjay Jaiswal AR Aryann Bhowmik Saikat AN Anupam Bhattacharya Anirban VA Vaibhavi Malhotra Ahana Jaiswal AH Ahalya Shetty Shefali JA Jayashree Usha Jain

K. K. Raina Sukumar Sinha PA Pamela Bhutoria Ananya HA Harsh Mishra Ankit LA Latin Ghai Hemant KE Kenny Basumatray John John LE Leena Lal Lisa NE Neha Zulka Divya SU Subhashis Chakraborty Constable Madan AB Abhinay Deo Director DI Diggi Sisodia Writer SU Sunayana Kumari Writer MA Mayukh Ghosh Writer UM Umesh Kumar Bansal Producer GA Gaurav Chatterji Composer AM Amogh Deshpande Cinematographer HU Huzefa Lokhandwala Editor

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Release date: 5 Jun 2026
Country: IN
Director: Abhinay Deo

Trivia

Brown is the first Indian web series selected for the Berlinale Series Market Selects programme.
The series was produced independently by Zee Studios without a platform commission, allowing the studio to retain intellectual property ownership.
Playback singer Shaan made his acting debut in the series.
The series is set and shot in Kolkata, with the city's architecture informing its neo-noir visual tone.
Karisma Kapoor's role as Rita Brown required her to drop the glamour of her previous film career.
The series premiered on ZEE5 on 5 June 2026.

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