Sony Liv is the youngest web channel on the internet. Currently, it's kitty of Hindi web series comprises of 3 originals. All of them are - Indian by origin, constitute of only the first season and quite worthy of binge watching.
They are -
1. Your Honor (18 Jun 2020)
Genre: Crime Drama Thriller
No. of Episodes: 12
Running Time: 35 minutes
Short Review: This web series is about - how an extremely honorable and effective circuit court judge (Jimmy Shergill) in Ludhiana, Punjab is first blinded by the love for his only son and then his ambition and the stake imposed upon his life and career, so as to put in danger, the life and reputation of an innocent teenager, who is just a small time thief.
The story backdrop is a complex web of tussle between two local dons - a local Punjabi and a migrant bhaiyya aka UPite, who further get entangled with a sharp lady police officer (Mita Vashisht) and a CRPF personnel (Varun Badola).
The web series ends with an absolutely unthinkable climax.
Jimmy Shergill and Varun Badola are expectantly good. Mita Vashisht as the seasoned lady cop is a treat to watch. Whenever she is in the frame, she just steals the scene. Rest of the cast has also performed well.
The pace of the web series is rather uneven and majorly slow.
2. Gullak (27 Jun 2019)
Genre: Comedy Drama Family
No. of Episodes: 5
Running Time: 24 minutes
Short Review: Centred around the middle class Mishra family comprising of father, mother and their two sons, one barely of voting age and the other in high school, Gullak is a not a story but a collection of anecdotes narrated by the gullak aka the earthen piggy bank of the family!
Inspired from the usual happenings of any town based nuclear middle class family, the anecdotes are simple, funny, engaging and a treat to watch.
The casting is perfect and everyone has acted quite well. Vaibhav Raj Gupta, who plays the elder son, looks and sounds a lot like Arjun Kapoor.
3. Undekhi (10 Jul 2020)
Genre: Crime Thriller Drama
No. of Episodes: 10
Running Time: 26-40 minutes
Short Review: A well scripted and engrossing web series that travels from poverty ridden tribal lands of Sunderban to pomp, glitz and power oozing wedding of Manali, in the house of the ultra rich industrialist cum don (Harsh Chhaya) of the hill station.
Two tribal women are the common link between the aforementioned places, who happen to face extremely bad deal in both the places, as if their root level vanilla existences simply don't matter!
Harsh Chhaya has marvellously enacted the role of the extremely powerful and revered but perennially drunk and melodramatic Papaji aka patriarch of the family, as well as, the business enterprise.
Surya Sharma has stood out as the stoic, practical and ruthless Rinku ji, the blind follower, relative and true successor of Papaji.
The web series is well paced and unmasks some gruesome out-in-the-open but royally ignored practises of the society.
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