In this recent time, almost everything is becoming digital. This generation does not watch TV at all. Everyone is investing their time on the internet, social media, and digital platform. So, nowadays, many directors and producers are creating web series and TV shows which are released in the digital platform called OTT platform, which makes it easy to access any series or tv shows at any time and anywhere.
There are a lot of options available now to watch, so people are getting confused about what to watch from the unlimited number of lists. Therefore we make a sorted list of web series and Tv shows as per IMDb from the list of 250 top-rated shows, which will help the people not to miss the best one.
Here we present the list of Top 10 Indian web series and TV shows as per IMDb:
1. Scam 1992
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story is a crime drama series released on SonyLIV on 9th October 2020. It has 1 season consists of 10 episodes. It was directed by Hansal Mehta and Jay Mehta. Its IMDb rating is 9.1. It is a story based on an Indian stock market scam that was made by many stockbrokers, including Harshad Mehta. It stars Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Hemant Kher, and Nikhil Dwivedi.
2. TVF Pitchers
TVF Pitchers is a comedy-drama web series released on TVF play on 10th June 2015. It consists of 1 season with 5 episodes. It is directed by Amit Golani. Its IMDb rating is 8.8. This story is all about 4 friends Naveen Bansal, Jitendra “Jitu” Maheshwari, Yogendra “Yogi” Kumar, and Saurabh Mandal. In this series, they discover that they are not meant for routine jobs and they are not satisfied with them so the 4 friends decided to start up a new company. This series shows us the practical life where they struggle to build up their new company and want to secure their future after quitting their jobs. It stars Naveen Kasturia, Arunabh Kumar, Jitendra Kumar, Abhay Mahajan.
3. Aspirants
Aspirants is a comedy-drama web series released on TVF Play on 7th April 2021. It has 1 season consists of 5 episodes. It is directed by Apoorv Singh Karki. Its IMDb rating is 8.8. It is a story of UPSC aspirants who struggle to became IAS. This story revolves around 3 friends who were from different backgrounds who came to Old Rajender Nagar, Delhi, for UPSC preparation. It shows us the struggle of survival for rooms, dreams, anxiety, as well as working for the country. It stars Naveen Kasturia, Shivankit Parihar, Abhilash Thapaliyal, Sunny Hinduja, and Namita Dubey.
4. Kota Factory
Kota Factory is a drama-comedy web series directed by Raghav Subbu. It is released on TVF Play and Netflix on 16th April 2020. It consists of 1 season with 5 episodes. Its IMDb rating is 8.8. It is the first black and white web series. This series is another masterpiece of TVF. This series shows us the struggle of IIT aspirants which was faced by them in their day-to-day life. It is focused on the life of Vaibhav played by Mayur More, who came to Kota for preparations for the entrance exam of IIT. Jitendra Kumar plays the role of “Jeetu bhaiya”, which was very inspirational whose guidance helps Vaibhav a lot and changed his life forever. It stars Mayur More, Ranjan Raj, Alam Khan, Jitendra Kumar, Revathi Pillai, Urvi Singh, and Ahsaas Channa.
5. Gullak
Gullak is a drama-based web series directed by Amrit Raj Gupta, Palash Vaswani. It consists of 2 seasons with 10 episodes. Its first season was released on TVF Play and SonyLIV and the second season was released on SonyLIV. Its first season was aired on 27th June 2019 and its second season was released on 15th January 2021. Its IMDb rating is 8.7. It is a story of the Mishra family which explains about Santosh and Shanti Mishra, and their sons Anand (Annu) and Aman. It stars Jameel Khan, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Vaibhav Raj Gupta, and Harsh Mayar.
6. Ramayan
Ramayan is a mythological-based series based on Ramayana has released on DD National on 25th January 1987. It has 1 season consists of 78 episodes. It was directed by Ramanand Sagar. Its IMDb rating is 8.7. It was adapted and based on the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana, It shows the journey of Rama who goes to an exile of 14 years along with Sita and Lakshman. It recently again aired during the Covid lockdown period which wins almost all the hearts of fans. It stars Arun Govil, Deepika Chikhalia, Sunil Lahri, Arvind Trivedi, and Dara Singh.
7. Mahabharat
Mahabharat is a history-based TV series released on DD National and DD Bharati on 2nd October 1988. It was directed by B.R.Chopra and Ravi Chopra. It was based on the Sanskrit epic named Mahabharata written by Vyasa. It consists of 1 season with 94 episodes. Its IMDb rating is 8.6. The story revolves around Lord Krishna, Pandavas, Kauravas, Karna, Draupadi, etc. It stars Nitish Bharadwaj, Firoz Khan, Puneet Issar, Pankaj Dheer, Gufi Paintal, etc.
8. Sarabhai v/s Sarabhai
Sarabhai v/s Sarabhai is an Indian sitcom TV series. It consists of 2 seasons with 80 episodes. It was released on Star One (season1) and on Hotstar (season 2). The first season was aired between 1st November 2004 to 11th September 2006 and the second was streamed from 15th May 2017 to 17th July 2017. It was directed by Deven Bhojani and Aatish Kapadia. Its IMDb rating is 8.6. The story revolves around the life of an upper-class Gujrati family who lives in the upmarket Cuffee Parade area of South Mumbai. It stars Satish Shah, Ratna Pathak, Sumeet Raghavan, Rupali Ganguly, and Rajesh Kumar.
9. Yeh Meri Family
Yeh Meri Family is a comedy-drama web series released on TVF Play on 12th July 2018. It was directed by Sameer Saxena. The series has a total of 7 episodes containing 1 season. Its IMDb rating is 8.6. It is a story tells about the life of a 12-year-old Harshu Gupta who lives in Jaipur Rajasthan in the late 1990s. It stars Vishesh Bansal, Mona Singh, Akarsh Khurana, Ahan Nirban, Ruhi Khan, and many others.
10. Panchayat
Panchayat is a comedy-drama web series. It was released on Amazon Prime Video on 3rd April 2020. It was directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra. It consists of 1 season with 8 episodes. Its IMDb rating is 8.5. In this series, an Engineering graduate due to lack of better jobs became secretary of the village panchayat office in Uttar Pradesh. It is also quite similar to that of the previous two series. It also shows us the struggle of an Engineering graduate who became a panchayat secretary in the village but he was still studying for an MBA for having better and joyful life and to get rid of the old remote village’s lifestyle and enjoy life.
