''Guilty Minds'' is an Indian

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-language legal drama streaming

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. The series is written and directed by Shefali Bhushan and Jayant Digambar Somalkar. This series stars Shriya Pilgaonkar, Varun Mitra, Sugandha Garg,

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and

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in the lead.

Plot

The story revolves around Kashaf Quaze, Deepak Rana and Vandana Kathpalia, three law school friends who are often put opposite each other in the court of law. Kashaf and Vandana run a law centre where they take up class action and humanitarian cases while Deepak represents Khanna & Khanna a popular law firm with rich clients. Each episode in the series dwells with issues such as rape, artificial intelligence, water shortage and how those issues interact with the lives and principles of the characters.

Cast

* Shriya Pilgaonkar as Kashaf Quaze * Varun Mitra as Deepak Rana * Sugandha Garg as Vandana Kathpalia *Namrata Sheth as Shubhangi Khanna *

as Tajinder Bhalla *

as L N Khanna * Benjamin Gilani as Munawwar Quaze *Pranay Pachauri as Shubhrat Khanna *Diksha Juneja as Riya Singh *

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as Mumtaz *Deepak Kalra as Kitu Bhalla *Chitrangada Satarupa as Sunanda Bose * Virendra Saxena as Vishwambar Chauhan *

Karishma Tanna Karishma Tanna Bangera (born 21 December 1983) is an Indian actress, model and anchor who predominantly works in Hindi films and television shows. She made her television debut with '' Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'' in 2001. She is well known ...

as Mala Kumari * Suchitra Krishnamurthy as Neela Raghunandan *Dinker Sharma as Hasan *Akshay Baghel as Abhijeet *Vasundhara Kaul as Antara *Arun Kalra as Shamsher Khanna *Meet Vora as Prateek Malhotra *Hans Dev Sharma as Dilrah Khanaa *Atul Kumar as Diveyendu Khurana *Suhita Thatte as Justice Shukla *

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as Anwar (Episode-5 Aalaap)

Reception

''Guilty Minds'' received positive to mixed reviews.

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from ''

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'' writes, "This is a well-done, well-acted show. My only quibble is the banal title ‘Guilty Minds’, which feels un-nuanced for a show which says everyone is innocent until they are proved guilty, and maybe not even then. Just by virtue of the fact that one of the lead characters is Muslim, whose unresolved childhood trauma can belong to anyone– religion, caste, creed no bar– makes it a big win, given our times." Abhimanyu Mathur from ''

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'' writes that "It is refreshing to see the courtrooms of India depicted as how they are, and hats off to showrunner Shefali Bhushan for that."

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