In Neil Gaiman's award-winning short story A Study in Emerald (2003), the reader is made to believe they are following the adventures of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes, until the duo is revealed to be Holmes's archnemesis Moriarty and his ally. A similar sort of mindboggling subversion occurs in the JioCinema series Shekhar Home, created by director Srijit Mukherji and writer Aniruddha Guha. The Hindi-language series gives an adventurous and irreverent spin on Arthur Conan Doyle's canonical Holmes stories.
Set in the fictional sleepy small town of Lonepur in Bengal in 1992, Shekhar Home follows the titular master detective (Kay Kay Menon) lounging in a guesthouse, where he is joined by doctor Jayavrat Sahni. Over six episodes, based on six Holmes stories, beginning with A Study in Scarlet, Home and Sahni team up and solve mysteries until they meet the primary villain M.
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