Hi there, lazybones and streaming addicts! Looking forward to entering the crazy new world of Indian web series? Check out these 9 Indian web series because they are enough to make your sofa your new favourite place, replace your gym membership and make you ignore your best friend’s engagement. So get your pop-corns, decide your couch corner and let’s explore the unexplored world of Indian digital entertainment!
Key Takeaways:
- A variety of Indian web series to please every emotion
- Hottie actors that you can fangirl over.
- Super engaging that you won’t even check your phone.
- The production quality is so high that Bollywood can bite the dust.
- Flavors that are Indian but stories that everyone will love.
1. Sunflower: The Dark Side of the Bright Light
“Sunflower” web series gives the audience the comedy that comes with Laugh Out Loud, complemented by a slice of whodunit mystery. It is a crime-comedy web series with eight episodes and two seasons. It revolves around Sunil Grover, who plays Sonu, an innocent man who is in a murder problem. A humorous take on a typical Indian residential complex, think ‘Desperate Housewives’ meets ‘The Office’. This Indian web series was given an IMDb rating of 7. 4/10, and it’s the combination of laughter and suspense that everyone was seeking. Finally, let me say that director Vikas Bahl takes comedy, suspense, blood, and beer and combines them to make a frothy concoction that will leave you wanting more!
2. Rangbaaz: Gangsters And Drama
They follow the trends of the best television shows around the world, and now, with “Rangbaaz”, they are here to make an offer that you cannot refuse. This crime web series gets you all the adrenaline pumping through three seasons, and each of them is about a different real-life gangster. This one has got leading performances that would make you applaud; it is like an Indian spin of ‘The Godfather’ kind. This Indian web series has a high rating on IMDb, a rating of 7.8.
3. Gyaarah Gyaarah: Time Bending Mystery
If you are ready to have your mind blown, check out “Gyaarah Gyaarah”! This 8-part drama involves detectives from different years using a magical walkie-talkie because it sounds like a fun idea. You thought ‘Stranger Things’ met ‘CID’, but this show where Raghav Juyal, Kritika Kamra and Dhairya Karwa star is like the four of them did the ambulance jump to the future and taken a brief detour. A show by Umesh Bist set in the beautiful hills of Uttarakhand has an 8.3 IMDb rating, and it is causing more stir than a time-travelling bee. Soon, you will be scanning the walkie-talkies in your own home for some kind of interdimensional signal.
4. Kaafir: Where There Is Love, There Is No Borders
Now get ready for the drama because with ‘Kaafir’, the show is truly about to get emotional. This carnage of eight drama casts the beautiful Dia Mirza as a Pakistani woman who has been incarcerated in India unjustly. This is another Sonam Nair-directed series with an 8.2 IMDb rating that’ll leave you ugly crying and restore your faith in humanity. This show is the epitome of the ones that will make the viewer want to hug a stranger.
5. Abhay: Unlocking the ‘Dark Side’ of Kunal Kemmu
Sit tight for this one, folks, “Abhay” is going to take your hats right off your heads! This crime thriller has the multi-talented Kunal Kemmu play a rather complex detective whose past is as black as your coffee. The series has three seasons and contains 24 episodes, and it has been compared to TV shows such as Dexter and Criminal Minds. Directed by Ken Ghosh, the show has a rather good rating on IMDb, with a rating of 8/10.
6. Taj: Divided by Blood— Mughal Drama
“Taj: Divided by Blood” is here to show that one can never escape the tension in the family, like the fictional Lannisters. This 10-part period drama gives you more political machinations and palace intrigue than any other period drama has a right to. What’s fascinating is that it is virtually an epic ‘Game of Thrones’ where Akbar is portrayed by Naseeruddin Shah. It is a play in which dragons are replaced with elephants. On IMDb, a numeric rating of 6.9 out of 10 is assigned.
7. Karenjit Kaur: From Sunny Leone To Superstar
“Karenjit Kaur: The Untold Story of Sunny Leone” Now, the real and unearthed story of Sunny Leone is here to let the viewers know that truth is much more profound and extraordinary than anything that can be scripted and developed for a movie. This three-season, 32-part bio-saga takes a tour from girl next door to adult film actress to Bollywood actress. Also, with a 7. 1/10 IMDb rating, this series, directed by Aditya Datt, is daring and provocative in an attempt to change people’s outlooks. This is a biography series that makes you never give too much thought about Sunny in the same familiar way again.
8. Murshid: Looking at the Ex-Don playing Daddy Rescue
Well, if you are a lover of crime dramas, be prepared to be glued to your seats with popcorn for the next few days. The ‘Murshid’ web series on ZEE5 is going to dish out some gangster content topped with some familial spice. These are seven episodes of the series and tell the story of ex-don Murshid, played by Kay Kay Menon, who gets back into the world of crime to save his son from the complicated gang war. Consider it as “The Godfather on steroids meets Taken along with a backdrop of Mumbai’s gullies”. Add to the mix a cast that shouts ‘acting royalty’, and you’ll find yourself cheering the villains before you can say ‘Bhai’. It is available to watch now on ZEE5.
9. Naxalbari: An Action-Packed Political Cauldron
“Naxalbari” is here to ensure that those involved in politics know no gains can be as explosive as an action film! This 9-episode series deals with the Naxalites, and Rajeev Khandelwal is a police officer in the middle of all of this. Currently, online with an IMDb rating of 7. 1/10, this Partho Mitra-directed show gives a raw feel to a reality that is, in fact, shades of grim. So don’t be surprised if, within the first half an hour of this action web series, you’ll be reaching for your keyboard to Google ‘Naxalite movement’.