A rich and successful family jet-setting across the world. Picture-perfect vacation photographs with champagne glasses clinging along. And just when everything is going picture-perfect, the dark secrets start coming out. No, it's not the storyline for an upcoming Bollywood movie, but the beginning of the Mukherjea family drama that's taken the nation by storm.
As the Sheena Bora murder case gets murkier by the minute, bitter truths about the rich-and-famous are pouring out, each more shocking than the other. The daughter was introduced as the sister, the husband didn't know about his wife's past and the son has shocking secrets about his mother, it's all way too filmi to be honest. Yet, it's the harsh reality of this family. It's another addition to the growing list of high society families in India, those with big houses, fancy cars and deeply disturbing personal equations. They may have more than most of us, but even when you have it all, can you really have it all? As the Sheena Bora murder case teaches us, apparently not.
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Happy, smiling faces always conceal the darkest fears and dirty secrets. Can we ever really know the truth about people around us? Since no one is closer to us than our family, do we really know them?
Corporate magnate and henpecked husband, Peter Mukherjea in happier times, blissfully unaware that he'd been living with a woman allegedly responsible for the murder of her daughter, introduced to him as her sister.
A mother who killed her daughter, a wife who built a web of lies around her third husband or a successful woman who always knew how to have fun. What's the reality of Indrani Mukherjea?
A girl who was killed by her mother. What was Sheena Bora's fault? Falling in love?
A familiar face in Kolkata's society circles, is Sanjeev Khanna, a hapless victim dragged into a murky murder investigation, or a killer who joined hands with his ex-wife? Only time will tell.
In happier times, a much in-love couple, Sheena and Rahul Mukherjea. Did he even know he was dating his stepmother's daughter?
A revengeful brother trying to seek justice for his sister or a rogue son getting back at his mother for abandoning him as a child? Mikhail Bora has many faces, each graver than the other.
