The concept of mini-series isn’t quite familiar to our industry, despite the fact that it trims a lot of unnecessary elements and makes your viewing experience better. Particularly when it comes to a thriller, pacing is the most important aspect, but many of our modern thrillers that came on OTT have forgotten this basic logic. With a runtime of over 400 minutes, they just couldn’t hold on to the thrills and excitement of the product. With ZEE5’s latest offering, Mithya, this mistake seems to have found a new solution called ‘Mini-Series’. A Mini Series, which is neither too long as a Web series nor too short as a feature film, is a new form of storytelling that finds a perfect middle ground. Directed by Rohan Sippy, Mithya is a six-part original mini-series. It provides a lot of elements all together, with each episode being about 35 minutes long. It does not have a strong motive behind the main story, it doesn’t have any concrete reason for the main context of it, whether it is social or personal connect, it lacks soul, but that’s not it. Mithya emerges as a clear winner as a thriller, despite being a lukewarm murder mystery, which we have all been seeing for years. It’s the conviction of the writer who keeps you guessing about the twists, and they keep coming one after another to leave you with new questions. But the questions that are answered have logic, and that’s where Mithya wins you over. Maybe it is also because of the mini-series formula, but at the end of the day, it is always about the right storytelling, and Mithya has got it. The idea of making a risky narrative which hangs over the conflict between Satya and Mithya (Truth and Myth), works very nicely here, luckily, you can say. Otherwise you know ZEE5 and its mediocre products.