The tagline for 36 Days is “Secrets are injurious to health.” There’s an inordinate amount of dysfunction in a cluster of villas tucked away somewhere in Goa, where tourists have not yet discovered an isolated stretch of sand. Adapted by Anahata Menon from the first season of the Welsh noir crime series 35 Diwrnod , and directed by Vishal Furia ( Criminal Justice , Chhorri ), the Sony Liv series is a whodunit in a slightly different format.
It begins with a corpse and then goes back 36 days to examine the period that lead to the killing. No detective comes in to solve the murder. Farah (Neha Sharma) has recently moved into Casa de Magnolia in Goa.
As a sexy and single woman, she instantly sets the cat amongst the pigeons. Farah drives a flashy red car, has a red stewardess uniform and languorously lounges by the pool in a bikini. She is ogled by the men (surely a bikini in Goa is not a rare sight?) and disliked by the women.
The neighbours include scientist Rishikesh (Purab Kohli), his sulky wife Radhika (Shruti Seth) and two teenage kids. There are the eccentric Machados – Denzil (Kenneth Desai), his wife Binafar (Shernaz Patel) and their disturbed son Riad (Faisal Rashid). The aspirational Lalita (Amruta Khanvilkar) and her disgruntled casino manager husband Vinod (Sharib Hashmi) do not seem to belong to the Casa but are lodged there due to the largesse of the vulgar landlord Tony (Chandan Roy Sanyal).
Tony lords over the property and his wife Sia (Chahat Vig). Pura.
