India, Feb. 20 -- The Punjab imagined by Sudip Sharma, Gunjit Chopra and Diggi Sisodia in their stellar series, Kohrra (2023-), is effectively a Hotel California for Punjabis who have returned home from other shores.

At the start of Season 1, Tejinder "Paul" Singh (Vishal Handa) from London is found dead in a field. Season 2 opens with the murder of Preet Bajwa (Pooja Bhamrrah), who has returned to the fictional town of Dalerpura, leaving a husband and children behind in the US.

This is not the Punjab whose fields and rural life have been romanticised in countless poems and songs. Kohrra, which means fog, is set in a cold and bleak Punjab, a place of neon desperation and melancholy.

Tasked with finding Bajwa's killer is the granite-fac...