Mirzapur 2 released today on Amazon Prime Video and with its second season also making waves among the audiences, the caliber of Indian originals has shot through the roof.
Mirzapur 2 released today on Amazon Prime Video and with its second season also making waves among the audiences, the caliber of Indian originals has shot through the roof.
Here is a list of 7 Indian original shows that you can binge-watch over the weekend on OTT platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Voot, and Zee5.
1. Mirzapur 2
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Mirzapur is an action crime thriller web television series on Amazon Prime Video produced by Excel Entertainment. It revolves around drugs, guns, murders, and lawlessness. Its first season consists of 9 episodes in total. The series was renewed for a second season and was scheduled for the 23 October 2020 premiere, but it got released a day earlier on 22 October 2020. It stars Pankaj Tripathi, Divyendu Sharma, Ali Fazal, Vikrant Massey, Shweta Tripathi, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rasika Dugal, Harshita Gaur, and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
2. Special Ops
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Special Ops is created by Neeraj Pandey who was also behind Sushant Singh Rajput's MS Dhoni: The Untold Story. It is essentially a crime thriller that tries to connect a string of terrorist attacks in India to one mastermind. Himmat Singh (played by Kay Kay Menon) is the protagonist of the show who's leading the mission.
3. Hostages
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Created by Sudhir Mishra, Hostages revolves around a surgeon whose family is taken hostage a night before she was supposed to operate on the chief minister. This series is a remake of an Israeli TV series and features Tisca Chopra, Ronit Roy, and Parvin Dabas in pivotal roles.
4. Asur
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Asur is a gripping crime thriller on Voot that also marked celebrated actor Arshad Warsi's OTT debut. It takes viewers on a unique cat-and-mouse chase between two forensic officers from the CBI and a serial killer – placed with Indian mythology.
5. Criminal Justice
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Sex, drugs, and a one-night stand turned into a nightmare weave this crime drama together that stars Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi, Jackie Shroff, Anupriya Goenka, and Mita Vashisht in pivotal roles. The story revolves around Aditya (played by Massey), a cab driver, who indulges in a one-night stand that leads to a murder investigation with him as a prime suspect.
6. Breathe: Into the Shadows
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Breathe is an Indian crime drama thriller web television series. The series starred R. Madhavan, Amit Sadh, Hrishikesh Joshi, Sapna Pabbi, Atharva Vishwakarma, and Neena Kulkarni in its first season. The sequel series starring Abhishek Bachchan was called Breathe: Into the Shadows and debuted on July 10, 2020. The web series really just poses the question of how far would you go to save your loved ones?
7. Paatal Lok
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Created by Anuska Sharma and her brother Karnesh, Paatal Lok is a story of a down and out cop who lands the case of a lifetime when four suspects are nabbed in the assassination attempt of a prime time journalist. The case turns out to be a devious maze where nothing is what it looks like. The pursuit of it leads him to the dark netherworld - the 'Paatal Lok', and to shocking discoveries in the past of the four suspects.
8. Aarya
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Disney+ Hotstar's original Aarya is based on a Dutch drama series, Penoza, by Pieter Bart Korthuis, which unfolds the story of a wife and mother, after she takes charge of her dead husband’s business to tie the loose ends of his drug cartel. Sushmita Sen dons the role of the titular character and leaves you spellbound.
