Damayanti (Tuhina Das) plays a history professor with keen eye for observation that is her foundation for moonlighting as an amateur detective. She and her husband Samaresh (Indrasish Roy) are on a holiday at a scenic resort in Santiniketan where trouble is brewing. It's a double whammy - first, funds are being misappropriated using POS terminals, and simultaneously, there's a hostile corporate takeover bid on the owner's business empire involving his entire family.
Damayanti almost naturally dives into the cesspool of intrigue and corporate politics, putting her already delayed honeymoon on the backburner, and even risking Samaresh and her lives. There's a murder too, that complicates matters further, but Damayanti has a nose that drives her in the right direction always, and her guesswork, read mere conjectures, are good enough to sniff out the plot and unravel the mystery. So much so that West Bengal Police Inspector Siben Sen (Shoumo Banerjee) is only too happy to play second fiddle to Damayanti, allowing her to take centre stage and follow her directives.
Damayanti is an unapologetic mixture of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, who believes that her exceptional prowess of observation is good enough to solve any case. She walks into any place without authority, snoops into security systems, interrogates people in the police station, and somehow seems to have access to the most important clues always. The story packs power, intrigue and complications, but the execution and script are too simplistic to showcase Damayanti as an intelligent series. Every move of the detective is spot on, a directional strategy that doesn't allow the suspense to rise above a flat line, failing to generate excitement. The script is the real culprit here, that gives Damayanti a "know it all" attitude for an amateur detective, where faltering is not a consideration. Hopefully, Season 2 will address the concerns and make itself more worthy of viewing.
