MUMBAI â A faceless cast does not take away from the neat, if slightly self-conscious, attempt at creating a whodunit, that too with a double twist, in Pratilipiâs first web offering âMidnight Lily.â Based on a best-selling short story they had put out earlier, this tale of four episodes is just about an hour in total length.
It is simple: writer Ved Kumar Tomar (Sandeep Jain) suspects wife Neena (Harita Shah) of an extra-marital affair and in an argument, she is accidentally murdered. While he is considering several panicky options, the body disappears. Worse, he gets visitors at that late hourâa woman whose bike has broken down outside (Spoorthi Biradar) and a man who had a meeting anyway with Neena, a counsel (Rohit Hemrajani).