Moving past a heavy-handed Dunki, Rajkumar Hirani finds his deft touch, imbuing a warm soul into the Over-The-Top streaming space where even empathy feels algorithmic these days. Instead of adding to our daily anxiety, Hirani, who works as a series creator, along with director Avinash Arun, takes the clinical world of cybercrime and wraps it in an engrossing buddy-cop comedy that educates and comforts the audience. Reflecting the anxiety of the times when a single digital mistake can ruin a life, the series effectively uses the theme of forgiveness to heal people and relationships.Led by Arshad Warsi, who balances his signature effortless humour with a tougher tone, and debutant Vir Hirani as his father’s creative voice of the outsider who questions the absurd rules of the world, the narrative finds its sweet spot when the points of view of Pedro, an old school policeman nursing a young wound and Pritam, a modern hacker, living with his grandfather under an assumed identity, collide.The clash is not just about a tough cop or a smart kid; it is about how their opposite worlds need each other to survive. While they use different tools to hunt down a dangerous hacker, they are both driven by a deep love for things that money cannot buy. It is about protecting the priceless.Pritam and Pedro (Hindi)Creator: Rajkumar HiraniDirector: Avinash ArunCast: Arshad Warsi, Vir Hirani, Vikrant Massey, Mona Singh, Satyadeep Mishra, Rajesh Sharma, Vinod NagpalSynopsis: An old-school, tech-challenged cop and a brilliant young hacker form an unlikely partnership to tackle advanced cybercrimes in Goa.As always, Hirani sees a mirror to humanity in situations that look absurd. Here we get his trademark vibe early, as Pritam and his grandfather (Vinod Nagpal) walk into a Goa police station to report their missing tape recorder, which contains a cassette with Pritam’s grandmother’s voice singing an original composition. What starts as a logic-defying scene for the police, busy solving a bizarre ATM theft, becomes a comic situation and ends up choking the throat, because it tells us that the things of highest value in life carry no price tag.