Chakravyuh – An Inspector Virkar Crime Thriller

Chakravyuh – An Inspector Virkar Crime Thriller is a Hindi-language Indian crime thriller MX Original web series, directed by Sajit Warrier and produced by Applause Entertainment Ltd, Kailash Surendranath, Arti Surendranath and Mayavid Online LLP. The series features Prateik Babbar, Simran Mundi, Ruhi Singh, Ashish Vidyarthi, Shiv Panditt, Gopal Dutt & Asif Basra.^[1] The show is based on the story and characters created by Filmmaker/Author Piyush Jha in his third book Anti-Social Network, from his Inspector Virkar Crime-Thriller book series. The show follows Inspector Virkar who is out to solve a murder case that seems to be linked to cybercrime. The show was made available for streaming on OTT platform MX Player for free from 12 March 2021.^[2][3]

Chakravyuh – An Inspector Virkar Crime Thriller
MX Player release poster
Based on	Anti-Social Network - An Inspector Virkar Crime Thriller by Piyush Jha
Written by	Karan Shah, Chaitanya Chopra & Kailash Surendranath
Directed by	Sajit Warrier
Starring	Prateik Babbar Simran Mundi Ruhi Singh Ashish Vidyarthi Shiv Panditt Gopal Dutt Asif Basra Ravi Pandey
Music by	Faizan Hussain
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Producer	Applause Entertainment Ltd & Mayavid Online LLP
Cinematography	Hari K. Vedantam
Running time	240 min
Original release
Network	MX Player
Release	12 March 2021 (2021-03-12)

Cast

• Prateik Babbar as Inspector Virkar
• Simran Mundi as Naina
• Ruhi Singh as Sagarika Purohit
• Ashish Vidyarthi as ACP Wagh
• Shiv Panditt as Roy
• Gopal Dutt as Dr. Sinha
• Asif Basra as Raut
• Ravi Pandey as Kaamat
• Anjali sivaraman as IP

Episodes

Season 1

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"Phishing"	Sajit Warrier	Based on Piyush Jha's book "Anti- Social Network", Karan Shah, Chaitanya Singh & Kailash Surendranath	March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)
2	"Click Bait"	Sajit Warrier	Based on Piyush Jha's book "Anti- Social Network", Karan Shah, Chaitanya Singh & Kailash Surendranath	March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)
3	"Malware"	Sajit Warrier	Based on Piyush Jha's book "Anti- Social Network", Karan Shah, Chaitanya Singh & Kailash Surendranath	March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)
4	"Proxy"	Sajit Warrier	Based on Piyush Jha's book "Anti- Social Network", Karan Shah, Chaitanya Singh & Kailash Surendranath	March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)
5	"Access Denied"	Sajit Warrier	Based on Piyush Jha's book "Anti- Social Network", Karan Shah, Chaitanya Singh & Kailash Surendranath	March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)
6	"Side Jacking"	Sajit Warrier	Based on Piyush Jha's book "Anti- Social Network", Karan Shah, Chaitanya Singh & Kailash Surendranath	March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)
7	"Trojan"	Sajit Warrier	Based on Piyush Jha's book "Anti- Social Network", Karan Shah, Chaitanya Singh & Kailash Surendranath	March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)
8	"Anti virus"	Sajit Warrier	Based on Piyush Jha's book "Anti- Social Network", Karan Shah, Chaitanya Singh & Kailash Surendranath	March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)

Release

The series was made available for streaming on OTT platform MX Player for free from 12 March 2021.^[4][5]

Reception

The show was critically quite successful and rose to the no.1 spot on the charts in its first week itself.^[6][7][8]