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- 09 Jul, 2026
5 Reasons Pritam And Pedro Is Your Next Weekend Binge
So there’s this show where a vacuum cleaner salesman out-hacks a government cybercrime unit, a cop cries over a dead goldfish’s – sorry, dead son’s – swimming lessons, and somehow you’re laughing five minutes later. Welcome to Pritam And Pedro, Rajkumar Hirani’s first OTT rodeo, and honestly? Your weekend plans just got cancelled.
If you’ve been scrolling past the JioHotstar banner thinking “eh, another cop drama,” Gupshup Tadka is here to physically stop your thumb. Here are five reasons this six-episode binge deserves your Saturday, your Sunday, and probably your Monday sick leave.
Quick Fact Box
Genre: Cybercrime comedy-thriller
Platform: JioHotstar
Episodes: 6
Lead Cast: Arshad Warsi, Vir Hirani, Vikrant Massey, Mona Singh
Creator/Producer: Rajkumar Hirani (OTT debut)
Based on: Hidden Files and Return of the Trojan Horse by Amit Dubey
Location Setting: Goa
1. Warsi and Hirani Junior Are an Unlikely Riot Together
Let’s address the elephant in the newsroom first: yes, Vir Hirani is Rajkumar Hirani’s son, and yes, the internet had its pitchforks ready before episode one even dropped. Nepo-baby debut alert, right?
Except – and we say this with mild betrayal to our own skepticism – the chemistry actually works. Arshad Warsi’s Pedro as an old-school Goa cop stuck opposite Vir Hirani as Pritam, a tech-savvy coding whiz, and their forced partnership carries the whole show. Warsi does what Warsi does best: deadpan exasperation wrapped in warmth, the Circuit energy fully intact decades later.
And Vir, to his credit, doesn’t just coast on the surname – he brings an anxious, twitchy energy to Pritam that makes the “genius hiding in plain sight” act genuinely fun to watch.
It feels like as the audience we went in ready to side-eye the casting. We stayed for the bickering. Sue us.
2. This Isn’t Just “Case of the Week” – It’s Got a Broken Heart Under the Hood
Here’s the thing that separates Pritam And Pedro from your average procedural: the crime plot is basically a Trojan horse (pun very much intended) for real grief.
Pedro isn’t just chasing a kidnapping case to get back into the Crime Branch – he’s a man quietly falling apart over the loss of his son, and his marriage to Stacey is held together with duct tape and unspoken blame. The kidnapping investigation keeps circling back to his own guilt about being an absent father, and by the time the emotional gut-punch lands in the final episodes, you’re not watching a cybercrime thriller anymore. You’re watching a man try to forgive himself.
It’s the classic Hirani trick – sneak the feels in while you’re busy laughing at the jokes – and it still works.
3. The Villain Actually Makes You Feel Something (Rare, We Know)
Vikrant Massey’s Martin could’ve been a forgettable hacker-with-a-hoodie type. Instead, the show gives him a backstory tangled up with Pritam’s own secret past, and suddenly you’re not rooting against him so much as wincing for him.
Without spoiling the whole reveal (we’ve got a separate ending-explained post coming for that, don’t worry), let’s just say Martin’s vendetta isn’t random villainy – it’s the fallout of a mistake Pritam made years ago, long before he was “Pritam.” That kind of moral grey zone is rare in a genre that usually hands you a cartoon baddie and calls it a day.
Here’s the thing, a revenge plot only works if you understand why someone wants revenge. This one earns it.
4. Goa Isn’t Just Pretty Wallpaper – It’s a Whole Character
We’re mildly exhausted by Mumbai-coded cop dramas at this point, so Pritam And Pedro setting up shop in Goa feels like a breath of sea air. This isn’t tourist-brochure Goa either – it’s beat cops, cyber cells stuffed into cramped offices, old-school police stations clashing with new-age crime.
The show leans into that culture clash hard: a force built on gut instinct and field tactics suddenly forced to solve crimes through phone triangulation and CCTV footage. Watching Pedro fumble through logging into his own computer while Pritam casually tracks a kidnapper’s location is peak comedy – and also a pretty sharp comment on how policing itself is scrambling to catch up with technology.
5. It’s Funny, Warm, and Sneakily Says Something Important
At its core, this is still a Hirani show, which means under the crime-thriller skin, there’s a soft, sentimental heart beating away. The entire plot kicks off because Pritam’s grieving grandfather has lost the one tape recording of his late wife’s voice – and that small, aching detail sets the tone for everything that follows.
But Pritam And Pedro also isn’t afraid to get serious about the darker side of the internet – cyberbullying, online manipulation, and the very real dangers kids face when nobody’s watching what they do on their phones. It threads that needle between “fun weekend watch” and “actually made me think about my nephew’s screen time” without ever feeling preachy.
Gupshup Tadka’s Final Take
Is Pritam And Pedro flawless? Not quite – a few twists resolve a little too conveniently, and the pacing dips in the middle stretch. Critics have been split down the middle on this one, and honestly, so are we, a little.
But here’s an honest masala verdict by Gupshup Tadka : it’s a warm, funny, occasionally gut-punching buddy-cop watch that never overstays its welcome across six episodes. You’ll laugh, you might tear up at the tape recorder subplot (don’t @ us), and you’ll definitely have opinions about that ending.
What Everyone Else Is Saying
The reviews have been a proper mixed bag – some critics called Warsi’s performance a career highlight and praised Vir Hirani’s debut, while others felt the writing leaned too simple and the cyber-thriller elements didn’t go deep enough. A few pointed out that the supporting cast doesn’t get much to do. Audience chatter online, though, tells a slightly different story – viewers seem more forgiving of the predictability, mostly showing up for the Warsi-Hirani duo and staying for the emotional beats.
Basically: critics wanted a sharper thriller, audiences wanted a good time, and Pritam And Pedro mostly delivers the good time.
So – clearing your weekend yet? Drop your episode rankings in the comments, and stick around, because our Pritam And Pedro Ending Explained (and yes, our Season 2 predictions) are dropping next on Gupshup Tadka.
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