Raakh Season 1 Episode 6 Review: Bombay Shows Jayprakash The Shape Of Babu

By Mira Vance · Editor & Lead Reviewer

Raakh Episode 6 follows Jayprakash into Bombay, where Babu's past stops being background and becomes a map of old crimes, abandoned names, terrified witnesses, and one more woman who pays for trusting Kumar.

Kumar’s Childhood Begins With Fire

Episode 6 opens by taking the case backward. Before Babu is Babu, he is Kumar: a schoolboy whose cruelty has already gone past mischief. The principal lists the incidents like a warning no one has managed to contain. Kumar shoved a marble into a boy’s mouth. He pushed another boy from a water tank and called it swimming. Now Sanjay has a head injury.

His mother still begs for one last chance. That is what makes the scene painful rather than simple. She is not blind to Kumar. She is exhausted, ashamed, and still trying to mother a child who keeps turning tenderness into a trap. Kumar offers honey, calling himself sweet. Sanjay quietly reveals that Kumar stole it from the staff room.

The mother’s line about no amount of honey sweetening the poison inside Kumar lands because the episode immediately proves she is not being melodramatic. Kumar locks her in and sets the room on fire. The show is blunt: Babu did not become dangerous in one single adult choice. His violence has a long paper trail.

Bombay Gives Jayprakash Another Dead Child

Jayprakash and Gupte reach the Bombay room where Johnny was kept tied for two days. The boy’s body was found three days earlier, after the smell reached the neighborhood. Fingerprints match Rajjo and Babu. The case is no longer only the Arora case, even if Sahil and Suman remain its emotional center.

Gupte’s comment that this is Bombay and neighbors change every week sounds casual, but it explains how men like Babu keep moving. People see a child. They notice something odd. They do not know enough to interfere. By the time police arrive, the room has become another failed alarm.

The couple attacked by Babu adds a different kind of evidence. Freddy can describe being tied up, robbed, and humiliated, but Deena carries the attack in sensory pieces: alcohol, prawns, eyes, voice, and the burn scars on Babu’s hand. Her question to the police is simple and impossible to dodge. That man is roaming free; when will they catch him?

Jimmy Lobo Is A Friend Babu Can Use

Babu’s reunion with Jimmy Lobo begins almost like a grotesque comedy routine. He wants Uncle Seb’s special prawn curry, mocks the kitchen, and then recognizes Jimmy. The old friendship is real enough for Jimmy to share food and wedding plans. It is also exactly the kind of opening Babu exploits.

Jimmy has changed. He says he is done with shady work, is marrying Simone, and is having a suit made at Naseem Tailors. He wants a quieter life. Babu turns that into material. He learns about the honeymoon tickets to Agra, the suit, the dog, and Jimmy’s trust. Then he steals the lot.

The theft matters because Babu does not only hurt strangers. He raids anyone foolish enough to give him a door. Johnny Pinto, Jimmy Lobo, and later Meena are tied to the same old correction-home orbit. Every familiar name is a possible resource, and every resource can become damage.

Babu’s Mother Names The Monster She Survived

Jayprakash’s strongest discovery is Kumar’s mother. Babu visits her first, calling her Ma, talking about Guddi, and claiming he has reformed under a new name. He wants the fantasy of return: mother, half-sister, new father, everyone under one roof. She offers money and a silver chain instead. What she wants is for him to leave and never come back.

Her fear is not abstract. Later, from the hospital bed, she tells Jayprakash what Kumar did after that visit. Guddi, the house, and her husband were burned. Her husband spent a year in the hospital and went to the police, but Kumar disappeared. When she calls him a monster, it is not a figure of speech. It is testimony.

The juvenile correction home fills in the record. Kumar was there from 1966 to 1972 after setting bees loose on an eight-year-old child who died. Johnny Pinto and Jimmy Lobo were in the same block. The facts are almost too many, which is exactly why Jayprakash starts to buckle. Babu is not a single case. He is a trail of people who were failed, ignored, or found too late.

Nisar Gives Jayprakash A Way To Keep Moving

Jayprakash’s phone call to Nisar is one of the episode’s quieter turns. He does not call with evidence first. He calls because he wants to hear her voice. Then the darkness spills out: his mother, an infant girl, Johnny, Freddy, Deena, Sahil, Suman, and the unnamed others he fears may exist.

Nisar does not solve that crisis with romance or rhetoric. She tells him the real fight is not losing hope. If darkness exists, good must exist too. If it is dark, there must be stars. The line could sound soft in a different show, but here it is practical. Jayprakash needs enough hope to keep working.

The conversation also repairs their earlier argument. He admits she was right and he was wrong. She hears the apology. Then work returns. He sends her photos of Rajjo and Babu because ordinary people need to see their faces. The press, which had been pressure and danger before, becomes part of the public hunt.

Meena Trusts Kumar For Too Long

Jenny at the hospital recognizes Kumar from the paper and pushes Aarti toward the police, even when Aarti wants to avoid involvement. That call brings Jayprakash to Meena, the nurse Babu has been seeing. It is already too late.

Babu arrives with Jimmy’s dog as a gift and the same demand he made of his mother: prove love by accepting him now. Meena sees the newspaper clipping. She says she trusts him, but her body is trying to get out of the room. She mentions her emergency shift and tries to delay. Babu hears rejection anyway. The question becomes the same as before: do you love me?

When Jayprakash reaches the nurses’ quarters, Meena is dead. The show does not need to linger on the body. The pattern is enough. Kumar asks for love. If the answer does not arrive the way he wants, he punishes the person in front of him.

Agra Becomes The Next Lie Jayprakash Tells

Naseem Tailors turns the Jimmy lead into direction. Jimmy is terrified, newly married, and desperate to explain that Babu came after five years, stole his suit, took the dog, and ran away with his honeymoon tickets. The destination is Agra.

Jayprakash then calls SP Hajra and gets the official wall he has been avoiding. He is ordered back to Delhi with a written apology. If he refuses, suspension waits. He does not have Babu in hand, only the likely next stop. For Hajra, that is not enough.

So Jayprakash lies to the Bombay team. He says the SP is happy, has asked him to follow Babu to Agra, and has thanked Gupte and the others. It is a bad lie in a strict sense, but the episode has made the alternative look worse. If he obeys, Babu gets more time. If he moves, he risks his career and keeps the trail warm.

Tiny details worth clocking

Kumar’s stolen honey in the opening mirrors his adult habit of turning gifts into manipulation.

Deena’s memory of prawns links Babu’s restaurant night with evidence, not only atmosphere.

Jimmy’s dog becomes a weirdly precise sign of how Babu steals identities as much as objects.

The correction-home file ties Johnny Pinto and Jimmy Lobo to Babu before Jayprakash reaches Meena.

Nisar’s public-photo role gives her journalism a concrete investigative function, not just commentary.

Jayprakash’s fake report to Gupte is risky because Gupte has actually helped him; he lies to the people doing the work with him.

Final verdict

Episode 6 is the season’s ugliest expansion of scope. Raakh stops treating Babu as the visible half of one murder case and reveals Kumar as a man whose violence has been archived across childhood, correction homes, family fire, murdered children, and assaulted strangers.

The hour also tests Jayprakash differently. He is not only chasing clues now; he is trying to stay human while reading the record of someone who has made cruelty into a method. By ending with the Agra lead and another lie to authority, the episode turns his obsession into both a liability and the only thing keeping the case alive.

Rating: 8.6/10 - A grim, necessary chapter that makes Babu’s history feel like evidence and pushes Jayprakash past procedure into open defiance.

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Reviewed by Mira Vance · QuizFandom Editor & Lead Reviewer. Every rating is an honest per-watch assessment from the desk that also writes the quizzes — not a press release rehash.

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