Rudra: The Edge of Darkness is an Indian psychological crime thriller streaming television series, created for Disney+ Hotstar based on the British series Luther. The series stars Ajay Devgn, Raashi Khanna and Esha Deol.
Set in Mumbai, Rudra – The Edge of Darkness is a race-against-the-clock thriller that delves into the psyche of highly intelligent criminals and the detective who hunts them. Each episode in the series features a new threat even as the overarching series arc continues, portraying the grave personal cost at which DCP Rudra Veer Singh pursues criminals and killers and the unlikely friendship that he forms with Dr. Aliyah Choksi, a genius sociopath.
Rudra review: There really can’t be a better choice to play that dark but inherently noble character in Disney+ Hotstar series than Ajay Devgn, because he owned that template years before.
After so many years of the Singham slo-mo stride, parlayed over so many masala movies, I’d forgotten that Ajay Devgn could walk any other way. In ‘Rudra’, his first web outing as the dour, brooding Special Units cop Rudraveer Singh, he does remember not to walk arms akimbo. Instead of khakhi, he is in civvies, black jacket, black trousers. And because this a web series, he is allowed to smoke, which he can’t in our sanskaari movies. But his single-minded focus on finding the bad guys and fixing ‘em is still the same: whether it is Singham or Rudra, when he hits ’em, they stay hit.