The true power of general entertainment content is its ability to re-invent itself. At first from being celebrated widely across television sets in the country, to soon becoming soapy and draining, it has once again undergone an interesting verve of change. Fluid and interesting, arresting and engaging, entertainment content ever since its entered the digital format has brought about a ravishing new change for the Indian audiences. Moreover, people across varied age-groups have taken to the new fancy on the net: web-series.
So which are the Indian web series that are being talked about and which you just cannot afford to miss.
Engaging, biting and interesting with a rich multitude of characters, this widely liked web-series on YouTube is creating a sensation. Permanent Roommates focuses on the relationship of a couple who has been in a relationship for 3 years and finally get a chance to move in together.
Life isn't all that you see happening in the frontlines. In an interesting and fresh slice of perception of reality vs myth, facts vs fiction, I don't watch TV is a fiercely independent, but fictional look at what happens behind the glitz and glamour of working in the Indian television industry. What are the trials, feelings and tribulations of our actors and familiar faces that occupy the home television box, all day long.
Giving a funnily made series on Indian Americans struggling to come to terms with traditional values and modernity- a feminine undertone, Bad Indian is a no holds barred verbatim, humour spank and taste of authenticity that can only be felt by a few.
Brilliant editing, direction and writing have made Pitchers a true class of a series, experienced specially on the digital platform. The rich, evocative and poignant tale of a group of Urban Indians, it can melt your heart, make you burst out with laughter and give you a tinge of nostalgia as you revisit your own life through that of its 4 protagonists.
This one is exclusively for the music aficionado's. A truly engaging and wryly entertaining series that follows the notoriously secretive development of underground hip-hop in India, the heart of Asia, the series is as engaging as it is hugely informing about one of the most loved forms of music in the wider world.
This is an intricate drama about the trials and tribulations and feelings and passions of a couple who are in a live-in relationship, where the female is anxious about the fate of their relationship as against the watchful and hawk-eyed mother-in-law to be.
A funny but emotional journey about three DU students who flimsily decide to open a food delivery service and the light-hearted chaos and constant string of troubles they come to witness in their every-day life. This is a must watch.
A straight guy, living with 2 gays, madly in love, it is about time that the often despotic thinking India, one that seems to be stuck in the morose holds of a patriarchal society opened up to embrace the LGBT community.
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