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Best Netflix India Original Shows You Can Binge On

Do you want to know what the best shows in India are? So we've compiled a list of all the shows that have been released on OTT over the last three years, ranging from drama to comedy to romance to thrillers.

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 Since its launch in India, Netflix has been putting out global content, and as the weekends approach, everyone wants to head to a couch and chill. However, there are an infinite number of shows to choose from, and we can't possibly watch all of them, especially if you're looking for the finest. So we've compiled a list of all the shows that have been released on Netflix over the last three years, ranging from drama to comedy to romance to thrillers.
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2o Best Netflix Shows In India:

  1. Bard of Blood ( 2019)

Bard of Blood is an Indian spy thriller television series based on Bilal Siddiqi's 2015 espionage novel of the same name. Kabir Anand (Emraan Hashmi) is a former Indian Intelligence Wing (IIW) agent who fell out when his colleague was killed during an assignment. He is now a literature teacher who cares for the widow and son of a departed friend. When four Indian intelligence personnel are kidnapped by the Taliban in Quetta, Sadiq Sheikh, the director of the Indian secret agency, calls on a reluctant Kabir to save them.

2. Delhi Crime ( 2019)

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Delhi Crime is a crime drama series. The series Delhi Crime is based on a gang rape crime that occurred in the Munirka neighbourhood of South Delhi in 2012. The series picks up after a gang rape, with Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Vartika Chaturvedi (Shefali Shah) tasked with tracking down the perpetrators of the crime and the subsequent death of the female victim.

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3. Jamtara - Sabka Number Ayega ( 2020)

Soumendra Padhi and Trishant Srivastava created and directed Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega, an Indian crime drama streaming television series. The plot centres around social engineering efforts in Jharkhand's Jamtara area. A group of small-town young guns run a lucrative phishing operation, but a crooked politician wants a piece of the action, and a cop wants to fight them all.

4.  Taj Mahal 1989 ( 2020)

 Taj Mahal 1989, an Indian comedy-drama web series is set in Lucknow, India, in 1989, and follows a cast of characters who have diverse perspectives on love. In 1989, India was a simpler society, still a few years away from economic liberalisation, and Indians were more tolerant people, more willing to accept a Muslim man( Neeraj Kabi as Akhtar Baig) and (Geetanjali Kulkarni as Sarita) a Hindu woman than they appear to be now. Love, unlike a poorly snapped digital photograph, wasn't disposable back then; it took patience, skill, and work.

5. She ( 2020)

 She is an Indian crime drama streaming television series. She tells the story of a poor female policeman in the Indian Police Force who is sent to the Anti Narcotics Group in order to combat a major drug trafficker. Aaditi Pohankar as Bhumika goes undercover as a prostitute in Mumbai as part of the assignment. Meanwhile, Bhumika is battling her drunken husband at home and working to finalise her divorce with him. Her mother is suffering from an illness, and her sister is a college student, so she is the family's lone breadwinner. The show portrays the idea that a woman's body may be used to effectively dominate her environment.

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6. Hasmukh ( 2020)

Hasmukh is  an Indian dark humour streaming television series. Jimmy, Hasmukh's manager, joins him in his criminal-comedian lifestyle (Ranvir Shorey). They select targets, sign contracts with television studios, burn bodies in incinerators, go on double dates with their girlfriends, and meet with mafia bosses all while working together. They rapidly become companions in a dark life and show true affection and care for one another.

7. Betaal ( 2020)

Betaal is an Indian zombie horror streaming television series set in a rural town where East India Company Army soldier Lt. Col John Lynedoch battles the fictional CIPD force with his battalion of zombie redcoats from the Indian Rebellion of 1857. A commando unit has been dispatched to evict the residents of Nilja village. The tribals will not budge, and their forced departure unleashes an ancient curse as well as a zombie attack.

8. Masaba Masaba ( 2020)

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Masaba Masaba is a streaming Indian biographical drama television series based on Masaba Gupta's life. The show is a dramatised portrayal of Masaba Gupta's life, including her family, love life, and job as a fashion designer. Gupta and her mother, Neena Gupta, portray themselves in a fictitious rendition.

9. Mismatched ( 2020)

Mismatched is a Netflix coming-of-age romance drama web series based on Sandhya Menon's 2017 novel. The story revolves around Prajakta Koli as Dimple Ahuja met Rohit Saraf as Rishi Singh Shekhawat. Shekhawat is a young guy who believes in the traditional way of dating: meeting in person, being drunk on love, and has come to Aravalli Institute to find his "Future Wife."  Ahuja wants to be a tech wizard. Also, Dimple is motivated, and Rishi is enamoured with her and wants to marry her.


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10. Bhaag Beanie Bhaag ( 2020)

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Swara Bhaskar is the lead character of Bhaag Beanie Bhaag, an Indian romantic comedy web series. On the day of her engagement to corporate worker Arun Kalra (Varun Thakur), Beanie Bhatnagar (Swara Bhaskar) has an epiphany: she wants to be a comedian, not a married woman with children. The plot revolves around what occurs next.

11. Paava Kadhaigal ( 2020)

Paava Kadhaigal (Sinful Tales) is a four-episode Tamil-language anthology drama web series. Sudha Kongara discusses equal relationships in her segment. It revolves around a transgender (Thangam) who wishes to be loved like everyone else. The film, which is set in the 1980s, also addresses issues such as interfaith marriage and transphobia. In this segment, Kalidas Jayaram, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, and Bhavani Sre appear. In the role of Thangam, Kalidas Jayaram was a revelation, and he could not have played the character more realistically.

12. Pitta Kathalu ( 2021)

Pitta Kathalu is a Telugu-language anthology drama film. Despite the fact that the shorts are strong and tackle some dark subjects, you wish they were more approachable in terms of the messages they sought to convey through their storytelling. The other two shorts, with the exception of Tharun Bhascker's Ramula and Nag Ashwin's wildly creative X-Life, don't leave an impression.

13. Bombay Begums ( 2021)

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Indian drama web series Bombay Begums is set in modern-day India, five generations of women grapple with desire, ethics, personal crises, and vulnerabilities in order to achieve their goal. Pooja Bhatt as Rani Irani, CEO of Royal Bank of Bombay goes to tremendous lengths to keep the bank's issues hidden. Rani's assistant, Fatima, goes to great lengths to impress her husband. Lily, who lives in a chawl, used to be a bar dancer and is now attempting to swindle her way to a better life for herself and her son. Ayesha is bisexual, from a little village called Indore, and is new to Mumbai. The series delves into the issue of drug usage.

14. Ray ( 2021)

Ray is a Netflix Hindi-language anthology drama web series created by Sayantan Mukherjee and based on Satyajit Ray's writings. Ray is inspired by series like Black Mirror and other anthologies based on Stephen King or Ray Bradbury's books. The "episodes" are truly films in and of themselves, with just the most tenuous conceptual ties connecting them.

15. Feels Like Ishq ( 2021)

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Feels like Ishq is a streaming Indian anthology television series. It's a collection of five boy-meets-girl stories (plus one girl-meets-girl) that take about half an hour apiece. The short stories in this book, unlike Lust Stories (which also dealt with relationships), are light-hearted. It stars Radhika Madan, Amol Parashar, and Rohit Saraf in an ensemble cast. The episodes are light-hearted to watch, and the goal was to create a "sweet love ">narrative" with a target demographic of adolescents and 20-somethings.

16. Navarasa ( 2021)

Navarasa is a Indian Tamil-language anthology streaming television series produced by Mani Ratnam, who also cooperated on the series' production with Jayendra Panchapakesan under their newly founded label, Justickets. Navarasa is a nine-film anthology centred on nine human emotions: compassion, laughter, amazement, disgust, serenity, anger, fear, courage, and love, as we know it.

17. Call My Agent: Bollywood ( 2021)

Call My Agent: Bollywood is a web series based on the French television show, Call My Agent! Call My Agent: Bollywood, starring Rajat Kapoor, Aahana Kumra, Ayush Mehra, and Soni Razdan, are part of the show. The show is set at a fictional Mumbai talent agency, and it follows the key characters' trials and tribulations as they try to delight their famous clients while simultaneously staying one step ahead of their coworkers.

18. Aranyak ( 2021) 

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Aranyak is a Bengali-language novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, written between 1937 and 1939 and published in 1976. It is based on his long and gruelling years in northern Bihar, primarily in the districts of Purnea and Bhagalpur. "Of the Forest" is how Aranyak is translated. The novel follows Satyacharan, the protagonist, on his trip between the woods and the city. Actor Parambrata Chatterjee as Inspector Angad Mallik is taken aback when the coroner, ostensibly a man of science, states after inspecting the body of a teenage girl that she must have been killed by the 'Nar Tendua,' a mythical figure worshipped by the villagers. Raveena Tandon, a cop, is cast in one of the most challenging roles of her career.

19. Decoupled ( 2021)

Decoupled is an English-language comedy web series produced in India. The absurdities and annoyances of life in their rich environment are juggled by a misanthropic writer and his startup-founder wife. The show's misanthrope in-chief, Arya, is played fairly effectively by the real-life 'wonderful man next door,' R Madhavan as Arya, in Decoupled, doling out lessons in the futility of "boring" jobs, therapy, and body acceptance.

20. Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein ( 2022)

The show is based on Vikrant (Tahir Raj Bhasin) who is a small-town lad who wants to settle down with a basic job and marry Shikha (Shweta Tripathi) , his true love. His dreams, however, are about to be destroyed when he becomes the object of Purva's (Anchal Singh) affection, the daughter of a politician who will go to any lengths to obtain him.

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