Top 5 Indian Crime Web Series You Must Watch in 2020

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6 min readOct 21, 2020
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With the rise of Netflix and Amazon prime video, several hits movies and web series were made into the crime genre and when talking about the crime genre we cannot forget about Indian Web series which went viral like Australian bush fire. Yaah!!! You think we are going to talk about Sacred Games which is rated 8.7/10 on IMDb but not this time, despite the fact, sacred games were fantastic, beautifully cast, and directed there are many other series which of course cannot compete to the level of sacred games but can stand along with it. So here are the top 5 Indian Crime Web Series You Must Watch in 2020, and I am sure most of the series you had watched during Quarantine (Ghar pe Baith Kr Tum Ne Konsa Ambani Bn Jana Hai) but you should check out the list. BTW the list is sorted from least rated to the top-rated.

5. Jamtara-7.3

Jamtara is an Indian crime drama, directed by Soumendra Padhi and scratch by Trishant Srivastava and Nishank Verma. This series officially release on Netflix on 10 January 2020 consists of 10 episodes. Along with Monika Panwar as Gudiya, Anshuman Pushkar as Rocky, and Sparsh Shrivastav as Sunny is playing as a leading role.

Synopsis:

The story of Jamtara is based on the true events that happened in Jamtara UP in 2015–2016. This is a story of two cousins rocky and sunny living in the small town of Jamtara making the money from phishing the peoples, taking their atm number, CVV number, and OTP by using the name of “bank helping service”. As there is money politician seems to come as a dog comes to the bone. So, the famous and powerful politician of Jamtara wants to shake hands with those cousins. On the other hand, superintend of police dolly Sahu posted to Jamtara, after seeing this she wants to take down this lucrative phishing but faces many problems as Lazy constables and officers, having departmental pressure, the involvement of politicians, and others. If you are curious to watch this series check out this series on Netflix?

4. Paatal Lok-7.8

The Amazon Prime Video comes with another unique story in the form of Paatalok (Underworld). The story is directed by Avinash Arun, Rosit Roy, and produced by famous filmstar Anushka Sharma, Karnesh Sharma. Jaideep Ahlawat as Hathiram Chaudhary, Gul Panag as Hathiram’s wife, Neeraj Kabi as Sanjeev Mehra, Abhishek Banerjee as Vishal “Hathoda” Tyagi seems to be playing a featuring role. The story is a little bit based on the novel The Story of My Assassins. Paatalok officially released on May 15, 2020, on Amazon Prime videos.

Synopsis:

The story revolves around a police officer (Hathiram Chaudhary), a famous journalist (Sanjeev Mehra), serial killer (Vishal Tyagi) aka “Hathoda Tyagi”. The story begins with the near-missed attack on Sanjeev Mehra by Hathoda Tyagi with four other members. Police track down the Hathoda Tyagi gives this case to Hathiram Chaudhary senior officer of Outer Jamuna Paar Police station. Due to the humiliation of people around him the case is a Life-changing for Hathiram to prove himself. This motivates Hathiram to investigate the murder attempt of Tyagi and Sanjeev Mishra and he found the name “Master Ji”, Tyagi’s inspiration/ideal who is behind all of this. Now, who is a master, Jee? why Tyagi works for master Jee? Is there only murder or a big conspiracy behind it? will Hathiram find out? If you are a fan of the crime genre you should watch this series and if you had already watched the series then let us known in the comment section how Anushka Sharma directs and produce the series.

3. Raktanchal-8.1

Like Amazon Prime Videos and Netflix, MX player comes with another action crime drama based on true events. The series is directed by Ritam Srivastav and written by Sarvesh Upadhyay this series features Kranti Prakash Jha as Vijay Singh, Nikitin Dheer as Waseem khan in a Leading role. The series premiered on 28 May 2020 on MX Player.

Synopsis:

This story is based on true events of Purvanchal in the 1980s when the state development and industrial works distributed through the tender and these tenders took by the mafias aka Tender mafias. The story starts with tender mafia Waseem Khan running their business for many years faces complications in their business due to new rising tender mafia Vijay Singh in the state of Purvanchal which ignites the fire between them. Now It is interesting to watch how Vijay Singh become so power full and why? And how Purvanchal become Raktanchal? If you are fans of Gangs of Wasseypur you should have to watch it.

2. Bhaukaal-8.5

Bhaukaal is an Indian crime drama with a rating of 8.5 on IMDb directed by Jatin Wagle. The series was released on the MX player on the 6th of March 2020. SSP Naveen Sikhera played by Mohit Raina, Nazeem played by Bidita Bag, Chintu Dedha played by Siddhanth Kapoor, Pintu Dedha played by Pradeep Nagar, Shaukeen Khan played by Abhimanyu Singh seems to play a leading role in the series.

Synopsis:

The story revolves around the two gangs Dedha Brothers and Shaukeen khan that holds the Muzaffarnagar and SSP Naveen Sikhera along with their police force.

Dedha brothers are the evils in the human bodies they can do anything from kidnapping to extortion even they burn the whole village without any fear. there is no word for fear that exist in their dictionary that they put into the people of the city. On the other hand, Shaukeen khan is clever. He kills their enemies from their plans. Every child of the city fears from his name and obligate like a god. The story turns their path when SSP Naveen Sikhera is transferred to Muzaffarnagar. He is a passionate police officer who hates crime since childhood due to some incident. Now It is interesting to watch how Naveen wipes out the crime from Muzaffarnagar or something will happen in Muzaffarnagar that will be unstoppable.

1. Family Man-8.6

Amazon Prime comes with many new action-thriller web-series in 2019–20 “The Family Man” is one of them. Manoj Bajpayee and Priyamani starring as a main character in the series. The Series is directed by Raj & D.K and written by Raj & D.K Suman Kumar. Release on the 20th of Sep 2019.

Synopsis:

The man named Shrikant Tewari belongs to a middle-class family secretly working for Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC) which is a fictional secret agency part of the National Investigation Agency India. Shrikant doesn’t tell about his low paying high risky job to his family and tries to protect them. working with his team Shrikant found something suspicious about terrorist activities in the city. Shrikant and his team take down them and secure the Muslim guy along with them. As the investigation goes deep TASC found that people in terrorists are coming from the neighboring country to fulfill their mission Zulfiqar under the guidance of major Sameer. Now, what is project Zulfiqar? and How is it actually, behind it? Are the governments of either country are involved or not? And How Shrikant stops this? The interesting fact of the story is that it is based on the true events collected from different newspapers.

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