Ishi herself is a complex character who pretends to have benefitted from the system. The story gives each character a hush-hush situation they need to address head-on using the plot device of Ishi’s death as the catalyst. After all, these are all hush-hush hidden truths of the society we all know about, but turn a blind eye to. As the story progresses, none of the issues brought forward and discussed are surprising to the viewer. Through the investigation, we explore the inner battles in the lives of these women as well as uncover the hidden truths of high societies. The narrative is built around finding the truth behind Ishi’s death which is suspected to be a murder by Inspector Geeta (Karishma Tanna). Hush Hush is a story explored through the kinship between four women: Ishi (Juhi Chawla), Saiba (Soha Ali Khan Pataudi), Zaira (Shahana Goswami), and Dolly (Kritika Kamra). The premise of the show also reminds one of the Indian film Angry Indian Goddesses (2015) in which themes such as homosexuality, patriarchy, and power are discussed through the friendship of the all-female protagonists. Just like the American counterpart, there is a suicide/murder mystery investigation underway, in which all of the women characters of Hush Hush are involved. The seven-episode murder mystery thriller is a high-society drama that explores hush-hush themes ranging from personal and private taboos like mental health, sexuality, infertility, and infidelity, to matters that are of public concern such as murder, and child sex trafficking.įrom the first look of Hush Hush, one gets a sense of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning series Big Little Lies (2017) as the story follows the lives of four rich ladies and a female inspector. Hush Hush is a star-studded web series on Amazon Prime directed by Tanuja Chandra and written by Shikha Sharma and Ashish Mehta. Trigger warning: Death by suicide, child sex trafficking, murder
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