The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case

2025 - 2025

Where Do We Begin?

Episode 1

The Indian High Commission in Colombo receives a mysterious phone call, followed by the meticulous assembly of a suicide bomb. As the news of the tragic bombing at Sriperumbudur shakes the nation, Prime Minister Chandrashekhar appoints D.R. Kaarthikeyan to lead a multi-agency Special Investigation Team. Parallelly, forensic expert Prof. Chandrashekar uncovers vital clues, while a leaked press photo accelerates the case but compromises the investigation, leading to a chilling revelation.

If You Prick Us, You Will Bleed Too

Episode 2

As the Special Investigation Team uncovers propaganda operations and hidden printing presses, they confirm Haribabu was a key operative. Meanwhile, surveillance intensifies on some suspects, who narrowly escape arrest. The team captures Koneshwaran, a low-level operative part of a nine-member team smuggled in from Jaffna. With mounting evidence and shocking confessions, the investigation uncovers how dangerously close a second assassination attempt came.

In Moments Of Pain, You Seek Revenge

Episode 3

Sivarasan, a close aide of LTTE chief Prabhakaran, narrowly escapes the coast guard, confirming he is still in India. As the Special Investigation Team scrambles to find him, they face a flood of misleading tips. Surveillance intensifies, and Ravi Shankar is finally caught and interrogated, revealing key links to the assassination plot. Meanwhile, Sivarasan plots a daring second attack. With his team spreading out in disguise and scouting the location, the threat escalates.

The Noose Tightens

Episode 4

As the investigation intensifies, interrogations reveal how Nalini and Murugan became central to the conspiracy, and the SIT orchestrates a nationwide manhunt for them. Meanwhile, Sivarasan, defying LTTE orders, attempts a failed bomb attack on the SIT headquarters. The SIT gains vital intel from Murugan, including safe house locations and operational details. As the net tightens, the investigators move closer to dismantling the LTTE network on Indian soil.

He Must Go!

Episode 5

The SIT learns how Dhanu, Shubha, and Haribabu conducted dry runs to prove they could breach high-level security-setting the stage for Rajiv Gandhi's murder. Meanwhile, the SIT arrests key LTTE sympathizers who expose the elaborate smuggling and safehouse networks along the Tamil Nadu coast. However, when one of them, who is the key to finding the mastermind, escapes custody, it reignites a desperate chase.

No One Is A True Friend

Episode 6

The SIT intensifies its hunt for Sivarasan, believing he may have fled Tamil Nadu. However, a lucky arrest in Coimbatore reveals that Sivarasan was smuggled into Bangalore in an oil tanker. As surveillance sweeps the city, a near-raid on one safe house in Indiranagar misses Sivarasan by mere metres, and a tragic misstep by local police in Biroota and Muthati results in the deaths of 17 LTTE operatives, prompting political backlash and urgent pressure on the SIT to capture Sivarasan alive.

The Trail Ends?

Episode 7

The net tightens around Sivarasan as a local tip leads the police and SIT to his last known hideout in Konanakunte, Bangalore. Despite internal conflicts, media frenzy, and repeated delays, the NSG prepares for a final assault. Tension mounts as Sivarasan, hiding with Shubha, Nero, and others, grows paranoid and desperate. The SIT finally receives clearance to act, but will it be too late?

Top Cast

Amit Sial•Sahil Vaid•Bagavathi Perumal

Director

Nagesh Kukunoor

Writer

Rohit G. Banawlikar

Follows the events leading up to the tragic 1991 assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and the intense manhunt that unfolded after , unraveling a complex web of espionage, intelligence failures, shifting allegiances, and the profound human cost involved in the pursuit of justice.

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Amit Sial Image

Amit Sial

Kaarthikeyan

Sahil Vaid Image

Sahil Vaid

Amit Verma

Bagavathi Perumal Image

Bagavathi Perumal

Ragothaman

Danish Iqbal Image

Danish Iqbal

Amod Kanth

Girish Sharma Image

Girish Sharma

Radhavinod Raju

Vidyuth Gargi Image

Vidyuth Gargi

Capt. Ravindran

Shafeeq Mustafa

Sivarasan

Anjana Balaji

Nalini

Sai Dinesh Badram

Murugan

Sruthi Jayan Image

Sruthi Jayan

Dhanu

Gouri Menon

Abhishek Shankar Image

Abhishek Shankar

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Nagesh Kukunoor Image

Nagesh Kukunoor

Director

Rohit G. Banawlikar

Writer

Sriram Rajan

Writer

Anirudhya Mitra

Novel

Nagesh Kukunoor Image

Nagesh Kukunoor

Producer

Sangram Giri

Director of Photography

Tapas Relia

Music

Farooq Hundekar

Editor

Vicky Arora

Action Director

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