Top 10 Web Series Of All Time

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1. Mirzapur

Mumbaiet Krishna, Vineet Krishna, and Karan Anshuman developed the script for the Indian action crime thriller series Mirzapur, which is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. Together with Gurmmeet Singh and Mihit Desai, who helmed the second season of the show, Anshuman directed the first. Excel Entertainment’s Rithesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar are producing the series. The protagonist of the tale is Akhandanand Tripathi (Pankaj Tripathi), popularly referred to as Kaleen Bhaiya, a mafia don and the unofficial ruler of Mirzapur in the Uttar Pradesh Purvanchal region. Pankaj Tripathi, Shweta Tripathi, Divyendu Sharma, Ali Fazal, Vikrant Massey, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rasika Dugal, Harshita Gaur, and Kulbhushan Kharbanda comprise the primary cast of the first season with the exception of Massey and Pilgaonkar, the main cast from the first season returns for the second, while the new cast includes Vijay Varma, Isha Talwar, Lilliput, Anjum Sharma, Priyanshu Painyuli, Anangsha Biswas, and Neha Sargam.

2. The Family Man

Developed by Raj & DK for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video, the Indian Hindi-language spy thriller series The Family Man stars Manoj Bajpayee as middle-class Srikant Tiwari, who works covertly as an intelligence officer for the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), a fictional division of the National Investigation Agency. Priyamani, Sharad Kelkar, Neeraj Madhav, Sharib Hashmi, Dalip Tahil, Sunny Hinduja, and Shreya Dhanwanthary are among the other actors who star in it. In addition to co-writing the story and script with Suman Kumar, Raj & D.K. produced and directed the series. Sumit Arora and Kumar wrote the dialogue with Suparn S. Verma directing a portion of the season, Samantha Ruth Prabhu was brought on board for the second season of the show, where she played the lead antagonist and made her debut on digital media.

3. Farzi 

The television series Farzi, which translates to “Fake,” is an Indian Hindi-language black comedy crime thriller that was written, produced, and directed by Raj & DK. The show’s co-writers are Sita Menon and Suman Kumar. With Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Kay Kay Menon, Raashii Khanna, and Bhuvan Arora in the lead roles, it narrates the tale of a dejected artist who chooses to create fake money.

The protagonist of Farzi is Sunny, an artist who, after failing to maintain his grandfather’s large printing press in operation, has grown weary of India’s economic disparity. He chooses to work with Firoz, his closest friend, to create fake currency. Michael, a police officer, and Mansoor, a thug, challenge them. As co-creator Raj Nidimoru explains, the moniker Farzi (meaning “fake“) alludes to both counterfeiting and the innate “fakeness” of human beings.

4. Aspirants

Arunabh Kumar and Shreyansh Pandey created the online series Aspirants, an Indian drama about coming of age in Hindi that is produced by The Viral Fever (TVF), written by Deepesh Sumitra Jagdish, and directed by Apoorv Singh Karki. Sunny Hinduja, Namita Dubey, Abhilash Thapliyal, Naveen Kasturia, and Shivankit Parihar are among its stars. The plot centers on three friends studying in Rajinder Nagar, Delhi, for the UPSC exam: Abhilash, Guri, and SK.

Five episodes of the series have already debuted online on TVF’s YouTube channel and TVF Play since it started broadcasting on April 7, 2021. It aired on May 8, 2021, as the season finale.

The second season of TVF debuted on October 25, 2023, on Amazon Prime Video, following an announcement made by TVF in October 2023.

5. Sacred Games

The 2006 novel of the same name by Vikram Chandra serves as the basis for the Indian neo-noir crime thriller television series Sacred Games. Produced and directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap under Phantom Films, it was India’s first Netflix original series. Varun Grover, Smita Singh, and Vasant Nath adapted the book. Motwane, Erik Barmack, and Kelly Luegenbiehl served as the show’s executive producers.

The show follows the events that transpire after troubled Mumbai police officer Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) gets a call from mobster Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) directing him to save the city within 25 days. Additional cast members are Aamir Bashir, Jatin Sarna, Elnaaz Norouzi, Pankaj Tripathi, Amey Wagh, Kubbra Sait, Surveen Chawla, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey, Neeraj Kabi, Jeetendra Joshi, Rajshri Deshpande, Karan Wahi, Sukhmani Sadana, and Aamir Apte.

6. Breaking Bad

Vince Gilligan is the creator and producer of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad, which airs on AMC. The show centers on Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underappreciated and dejected high school chemistry teacher dealing with a recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer. It is set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In order to ensure his family’s financial future before he passes away, White turns to a life of crime and teams up with a former classmate, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to manufacture and sell methamphetamine while dodging the perils of the criminal underworld. AMC’s Breaking Bad debuted on January 20, 2008, and ran for five seasons, totaling sixty-two episodes, before ending on September 29, 2013.

Co-stars on the show include Betsy Brandt and Dean Norris as Marie Schrader, Skyler’s sister, and her husband Hank, a DEA agent; Anna Gunn and RJ Mitte as Walter’s wife Skyler and son Walter Jr. Additional actors include Giancarlo Esposito as drug lord Gus Fring, Jonathan Banks as private investigator and fixer Mike Ehrmantraut, and Bob Odenkirk as Walter and Jesse’s attorney Saul Goodman. In the last season, Laura Fraser plays shrewd businesswoman Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, while Jesse Plemons plays the criminally ambitious Todd Alquist.

7. Panchayat

The Viral Fever is the creator of Panchayat, an Indian Hindi-language streaming television series on Amazon Prime Video. Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Sanvikaa, Chandan Roy, Durgesh Kumar, Ashok Pathak, Faisal Malik, and Sunita Rajwar are among the cast members of the Deepak Kumar Mishra-directed series that Chandan Kumar wrote the screenplay for. It tells the story of an engineering graduate who, after being denied better employment opportunities, moves to a rural fictional village in Uttar Pradesh called Phulera and works as a Panchayat secretary.

The show was filmed in the village of Mahodiya, in the Madhya Pradesh district of Sehore, at an actual panchayat office. The distance between Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, and Sehore is roughly 40 kilometers. Mahodiya is almost ten kilometers away from the district office in Sehore. Anurag Saikia composed the series’ soundtrack and score, while Amitabh Singh and Amit Kulkarni handled the filming and editing, respectively. This is Mishra’s first-ever full-length directing endeavor; she previously directed the corresponding second seasons of Humorously Yours! and Permanent Roommates.

8. Scam 1992

Hansal Mehta and Jai Mehta are the co-directors of Scam 1992 – The Harshad Mehta Story, an Indian Hindi-language biographical financial thriller that is available for streaming on SonyLIV. The show is based on the 1992 Indian stock market scam that involved numerous stockbrokers, notably Harshad Mehta. It is based on The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away, a 1992 book written by journalist Sucheta Dalal and Debashish Basu. Vaibhav Vishal, Karan Vyas, Saurabh Dey, and Sumit Purohit wrote the dialogue and screenplay.

Pratik Gandhi plays the main character, Harshad Mehta, while Shreya Dhanwanthary plays Sucheta Dalal in a parallel starring role. Additionally playing important roles in the series are Satish Kaushik, Anant Mahadevan, Rajat Kapoor, K K Raina, Lalit Parimoo, Hemant Kher, and Nikhil Dwivedi. The life of Harshad Mehta, his quick ascent, and his eventual fall from grace are the main subjects of the series.

9. Asur

Asur, which is transliterated as “Demon” in Hindi, is a psychological criminal thriller that is available for streaming on television. Tanveer Bookwala produced the first season, which aired on Voot. Bombay Fables, Sejal Shah, Bhavesh Mandalia, and Gaurav Shukla produced the second season, which aired on JioCinema. On March 2, 2020, the first season debuted, and on June 1, 2023, the second season.

In the show, a group of forensic specialists are tasked with apprehending a serial killer who believes he is the asura Kali in human form. Alongside Anupriya Goenka, Riddhi Dogra, Amey Wagh, and Arshad Warsi, Barun Sobti plays a prominent role. In the first season, Sharib Hashmi starred, while in the second, Meiyang Chang and Abhishek Chauhan became members of the main cast.

10. Money Heist

Money Heist, a Spanish heist crime drama television series developed by Álex Pina, is also known as La casa de papel, [la ˈkasa ̰e paˈpel], lit. ‘The House of Paper’. From the viewpoint of Tokyo, one of the thieves, the series follows two meticulously planned heists carried out by the Professor (Álvaro Morte), one on the Bank of Spain and one on the Royal Mint of Spain (Úrsula Corberó). The narrative is presented in a way that feels authentic, with the intricacy coming from time jumps, flashbacks, unreliable narrators, and concealed character motivations.

The original plan for the series was to be a limited series consisting of two parts. It debuted on the Spanish network Antena 3 on May 2, 2017, and ran for 15 episodes until November 23, 2017. In late 2017, Netflix purchased the worldwide streaming rights. The show was recut into 22 shorter episodes, which were then distributed globally. The first installment was released on December 20, 2017, and the second installment on April 6, 2018. Netflix renewed the show in April 2018 with a much larger budget for a total of 16 new episodes. On July 19, 2019, Part 3, comprising eight episodes, was made available. On April 3, 2020, Part 4, which consists of eight episodes, was also released. The same day, Money Heist: The Phenomenon (Spanish: La casa de papel: El Fenómeno), a documentary featuring the producers and actors, debuted on Netflix. The fifth and final season of the program was renewed by Netflix in July 2020, and it premiered in two volumes of five episodes each on September 3, 2021, and December 3, 2021, respectively.

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Stranger Things

The Duffer Brothers are the creators of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, which is available on Netflix. The first season, which was produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, debuted on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The fourth season aired in two parts in May and July 2022. The second and third seasons debuted in October 2017 and July 2019, respectively. Stranger Things received a fifth and final season renewal in February 2022.

A human research facility nearby creates a portal between Earth and the Upside Down, causing the inhabitants of the fictional tiny town of Hawkins, Indiana, to be afflicted by a malevolent alternative realm known as the Upside Down. The series is set in the 1980s. Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, Cara Buono, Matthew Modine, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, Dacre Montgomery, Sean Astin, Paul Reiser, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, and Brett Gelman are among the ensemble cast members.

The Duffer Brothers created Stranger Things by combining elements of 1980s popular culture with horror and infantile sensibilities to create a blend of supernatural and investigative drama. The films of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, David Lynch, Stephen King, Wes Craven, and H. P. Lovecraft served as inspiration for a number of thematic and directorial decisions. Conspiracy theories about covert government initiatives and tests carried out during the Cold War served as additional sources of inspiration.