India, July 21 -- There's a lot to cover in the seven-episode series The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case by Nagesh Kukunoor. Adapted from Anirudhya Mitra's non-fiction book Ninety Days: The True Story of the Hunt for Rajiv Gandhi's Assassins, this is a coolly objective and engaging investigative drama that demands every second of the viewer's attention. The stakes are high because this is a real-life event, with real characters and places, and in 2025, taking offence is not that hard to begin with.

Without much ado, the show opens with the Rajiv Gandhi's horrific death on May 21, 1991, by a suicide bomber at a Congress Rally in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. We will return to this gruesome incident later, and come to know how the w...