India, June 14 -- Crime thrillers traditionally revolve around one question: Who did it? But for writer Mayukh Ghosh, that was never the most important mystery at the heart of Brown. The psychological crime thriller, starring Karisma Kapoor as detective Rita Brown, began as a conventional whodunit before evolving into something far more layered. Speaking to Hindustan Times, Mayukh revealed that the show's defining creative choice was shifting the focus away from identifying the killer and toward understanding their motive.

According to Mayukh, the version of Brown he first encountered was quite different from what audiences eventually saw. "Zee Studios wanted to revive an old project based on the novel City of Death and they were looking...