Goa Police inspector Pedro has been relegated to the cybercrime department even though he neither knows nor cares about what a “cloud” could also mean. Pedro (Arshad Warsi) points out that he is a boots-on-the-ground type, a man of action who prefers a pistol over a mouse.

This grumbling Luddite teams up with the talented young hacker Pritam (Vir Hirani) to solve crimes that require phone tracing, password cracking and the like. The orphaned Pritam lives with his grandfather (Vinod Nagpal), making the gruff Pedro both a crime-solving buddy and something of a family member.

The unlikely pair face their biggest challenge when the minister Sardesai’s son is kidnapped – the same minister (Satyadeep Mishra) who had punished Pedro with the cyber cell posting. The kidnapper Martin (Vikrant Massey) is using the internet to weave a web of misdirection around Sardesai, his wife Shraddha (Shruti Marathe) and the investigators.

The JioHotstar show Pritam and Pedro is based on cyber-consultant Amit Dubey’s books Hidden Files and Return of the Trojan Horse. Avinash Arun Dhaware directs a screenplay by Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi and Suyash Trivedi.

Pritam and Pedro examines a cybercrime that used to be a major source of worry before digital arrests took over the conversation. The show too is old-fashioned in its pacing and...

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