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Netflix’s Killer Soup has the perfect ingredients of crime, suspense, panic, eccentricity, and drama broiled into a piping hot dark-comedy thriller. The first scene opens in Tamil Nadu’s refreshing town of Minjur, dotted with lush green hills and a gorgeous river. Through the convoluted alleys of the town, we reach the handsome Shetty Villa sitting atop Dickinson Lane. The straight-from-story book house introduces us to the Shettys played by The Family Man’s Manoj Bajpayee and Lust Stories 2’s Konkona Sen Sharma.
While the walls are loaded with numerous happy couple pictures, it couldn’t be more misleading. This loveless marriage brings together the chauvinistic Prabhakar Shetty and his dissatisfied wife Swathi, who is having an illicit affair with the former’s masseuse Umesh Pillai (also being played by Bajpayee) — who is a cross-eyed lookalike of her husband.Swathi is fixated on just one thing — she wants to open her restaurant and dazzle everyone with her paaya (trotter soup). Well, the bad news is she is a terrible cook who, for some reason, hasn’t yet figured out that her culinary skills are disastrous.
During the first episode itself, Prabhakar catches Swathi and Umesh, loses his temper and tries to kill her— although he has also been cheating on her throughout their marriage. When the forbidden lovers hit him in self-defence, Prabhakar falls unconscious.
Coincidently, on the same night, the deadly accident of a private detective, whose phone had several missed calls from Prabhakar earlier, leads to the involvement of the police, further complicating the situation for the two. This is when Swathi hatches a vicious plan of posing Umesh as Prabhakar in front of the world.For the rest of the seven episodes, we see how the couple desperately tries to hide the truth while a new threat pops up every ten minutes of the show.
Even though the first half has several thriller elements crammed together, it is during the second half that the plot actually thickens and takes a rather serious tone (sorry, can’t reveal much without giving away any spoilers; there are just too many twists in the plotline and too many people falling like Newton’s apple).
