A special screening for ZEE5’s Bi-lingual web-series Karkat Rogue was organized in Kolkata which was graced by the director Utsav Mukherjee, cast members Chitrangada Satarupa, Indraneil Sengupta and others.

The series is based on Indranil Sanyal’s novel Karkat Kranti.

The story of the web-series revolves around the underbelly of anti-cancer drug trial on unassuming people and the associated corporate greed which can go to the extent of debasing itself to safeguard their image. The story shows Beas Banerjee, a forensic surgeon who unearths a deadly plot behind the suicides and murders of lymphoma patients. She is initially unsure but as the death count increases, she digs in and unearths facts which shook her belief in the medical system and the malpractices. She finds out that it was a doctor who was conducting the tests on the patients. When the tests go wrong, people die. The people who conduct those tests will go to any extent to cover their ill deeds. They might even kill her to save themselves. She then reaches out to a senior police official named Barun Sarkar. Along with him, they unearth the truth which shocks them.

The production house is Fatfish Entertainment.

Chitrangada Chakraborty, Sudip Sarkar, Indraneil Sengupta, Rajesh Sharma, Jayant Kripalani, Arya Dasgupta, Chandreyee Ghosh, June Malia, Rana Basu Thakur and Priyanka Sarkar will be seen in pivotal roles in the web series.

There are eight episodes of the series which is of forty minutes duration each.

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