If there’s one industry that saw boom amid the pandemic, it’s over-the-top streaming service. With a lot of time in hand and nowhere to go in the wake of covid-19 fear, people glued themselves to couches and binge watch became a daily activity of our everyday life.
Since India’s television doesn’t have a variety of content to offer to the millennial’s generation, over-the-top platforms such as Netflix, Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video and Voot select among others are equally benefitted with their coming of age thrillers and dramas.
While OTT platforms are on a rise for past few years, 2020 saw a never seen before jump in their popularity and rightly so. Keeping the target audience in mind, many web-series released this year and outperformed expectations. Here, we’ve mentioned five must-watch web series of 2020. Have a look.
Paatal lok
An Amazon prime Videos original, Pataal Lok released on 15 May, 2020. The series is directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy and is produced by Anushka Sharma and Karnesh Sharma. The cast of the series include Jaideep Ahlawat, Gul Panag, Neeraj Kabi, Swastika Mukherjee, Ishwak Singh and Abhishek Banerjee.
Scam 1992
Hailed as one of the best crime thrillers of 2020, scam 1992 released on SonyLiv on 9 October, 2020. The series is directed by Hansal Mehta, Jay Mehta and produced by Applause Entertainment. It stars Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Anjali Barot, Nikhil Dwivedi, Mamik Singh, Lalit Parimoo, Rajat Kapoor and Vishesh Bansal among others in pivotal roles.
Mirzapur Season 2
The hotly anticipated second season of 2018 web series Mirzapur released on Amazon Prime Videos 23 October 2020. The series is directed by Karan Anshuman, Gurmmeet Singh and Mihir Desai and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar and Bhaumik Gondaliya. The cast of the series includes Vikrant Massey, Ali Fazal, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Pankaj Tripathi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rasika Dugal, Divyendu Sharma, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Lilliput, Isha Talwar, Vijay Varma and Farida Jalal.
Special OPS
This police drama released on Disney+ Hotstar on 17th March 2020. The series is directed by Neeraj Pandey, Shivam Nair and produced by Shital Bhatia. It features Revathi Pillai, Kay Kay Menon, Karan Tacker, Vipul Gupta, Muzamil Ibrahim, Sana Khan, Meher Vij, Saiyami Kher, Divya Dutta, Vinay Pathak and Sajjad Delafrooz in important roles.
Asur
Featuring Arshad Warsi in the lead role, Asur garnered positive reviews from the critics. It was released on Voot on 2 March, 2020. The series is directed by Oni Sen and produced by Tanveer Bookwala and The cast of the series is Arshad Warsi, Barun Sobti, Anupriya Goenka and Ridhi Dogra.
