Candy likes twists – at the rate of one per episode, or sometimes even within episodes. Never wanting for frenetic event or goggle-eyed development, the Voot web series reserves its coup de grace for the closing minutes. You will need to wait all the way until the end to learn the shocking truth about a key character, only one of this show’s denizens with a saucerful of secrets.
Directed by Ashish R Shukla (the movie Prague, the web series Undekhi) and based on a story by Agrim Joshi and Debojit Das Purkayastha, Candy is set in the fictional town of Rudrakund in Uttarkhand. Rudrakund is under the thumb of the corrupt politician Money Ranaut (Manu Rishi Chadha). He also goes by the more conventional-sounding Bhaiyyaji.
Ranaut has the police in one pocket and anything resembling civil society in the other. Even the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Ratna (Richa Chadha), leaps to his commands.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Ranaut’s son Vayu (Nakul Roshan Sahdev) is Rudrakund’s Pablo Escobar. Several of the local boarding school’s students are addicted to the Candy drug that rolls out of the Ranauts’ factory. Troubled and drug-addled himself, Vayu despises his father and seeks comfort in Ratna’s company.
The cosy arrangement is shaken up by the gruesome death of a student, which is blamed on a masked forest-dwelling serial killer called Masaan. School teacher Jayant (Ronit Roy) is deeply affected by the teenager’s demise. Jayant hasn’t yet overcome his daughter’s suicide, and he leaps into the investigation when the student’s girlfriend Kalki (Riddhi Kumar) says that she has been attacked by Masaan. It is suggested that she isn’t the only one.
