Top 5 Web Series 2020

 

1. Scam 1992 - SonyLIV

National Award-winning director Hansal Mehta’s debut web series, which released on October 9, 2020, has received the highest IMDb rating among all the other Indian web series on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, SonyLIV, Voot and TVFPlay. It is based on the scam run by a stockbroker called Harshad Mehta in the 1980s-90s Bombay. Scam 1992 chronicles Harshad Mehta’s meteoric rise and catastrophic downfall, which resulted in a market crash.

2. Special Ops - Disney+ Hotstar

Special OPS is an Indian Hindi-language action espionage thriller web series for Hotstar Specials, created and directed by Neeraj Pandey, with Shivam Nair serving the credits for co-direction. Pandey also produced the series under his Friday Storytellers, a division of his production house, for providing content to the digital medium. It stars Kay Kay Menon as Himmat Singh, a member of Research and Analysis Wing, forms a team of five agents, in order to track down a person, who is the mastermind of the terror attacks which took place in India.

3. The Family Man - Amazon Prime Video

Srikant Tiwari (Manoj Bajpayee) leads a dual life in this Indian web series. One is of a middle-class man working as a government employee and the other of a spy with the National Investigation Agency. While protecting the country from grave terror threats, Srikant must also fill his stomach on roadside vada pavs, travel in a beaten-up scorpio and also juggle his family life. The comical take on certain things in this show is what sets it apart from most espionage thrillers.

4. Mirzapur - Amazon Prime Video

The story follows the rule of Akhananad Tripathi (Pankaj Tripathi), also known as Kaleen Bhaiya, the mafia don and proverbial ruler of Mirzapur in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh. The series chronicles the events which follows. In the first season, it features Pankaj Tripathi, Shweta Tripathi, Divyendu Sharma, Ali Fazal, Vikrant Massey, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rasika Dugal, Harshita Gaur and Kulbhushan Kharbanda, whereas the second season retains the principal cast from the first season, excluding Massey and Pilagonkar, with new cast consisting of Vijay Varma, Isha Talwar, Lilliput, Anjum Sharma, Priyanshu Painyuli, Anangsha Biswas and Neha Sargam.

5. TVF Pitchers - TVFPlay

One of the older Indian web series on this list is a masterpiece created by The Viral Fever. Titled TVF Pitchers, this show revolutionised the way we consumed short-format content in India, without the frills of a highly dramatic plot, subplots and complicated characters. The mini-series follows the story of four men, who quit their well-paying jobs to run a start-up. It documents their ups and downs, and the consequent hilarity of life.