At a time when crime thrillers are increasingly occupied with serial killers, gang wars, and political conspiracies, Exam finds suspense in something far more familiar and arguably more unsettling: the government recruitment examination system. The seven-episode Tamil web series follows Jhansi (Dushara Vijayan), a determined young woman whose dream of entering public service is derailed by an examination scam, setting her on a path that exposes corruption, power networks and the human cost of a broken system. The series comes from producer duo Pushkar and Gayathri, whose work on projects such as Vikram Vedha and Suzhal: The Vortex has consistently blended genre storytelling with social commentary. With Exam, they back filmmaker A. Sarkunam’s exploration of examination fraud, a subject that affects thousands of aspirants across Tamil Nadu, but has rarely found space in mainstream fiction. In a conversation with Filmfare, along with actor Abbas, the duo revealed that what first attracted them to the project was not just the topicality of its subject, but the emotional story at its centre. “Sarkunam said he was working …