Top 10 Hindi OTT Series of 2021

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Today I'd like to share my favourite Hindi OTT shows/ series of 2021. Let's get into it, shall we? 

1. The Family Man (Season 2): The action moves to Chennai this season where some erstwhile members of the LTTE attempt an assassination and our team of TASC officers race against time to stop them. The second season is as full of thrills, humour and edge-of-your-seat moments as the first. Plus, a lot of loose ends from Season 1 were also closed. The Family Man is streaming on Prime Video. 

2. Your Honour: A judge will break all laws to save his son from a terrible fate. A fast-paced, thrilling series about the extent to which a parent will go for their child. Your Honour is streaming on SonyLiv. 

3. Candy: A boarding school in a hill station. A pervasive drug problem. A teenaged boy brutally murdered. A mythic creature hunting young people in the woods again. A teacher with demons of his own struggling to stop this brutal killer. A really good web series- possibly the best made in India this year! Candy is streaming on Voot. 

4. Criminal Justice Season 2: A well-loved and successful lawyer is found brutally killed in his own home. The suspect- his diminutive wife. Why would she do such a thing? Why would she kill such a nice man? Only her lawyer seems to believe in her innocence and is trying his best to prove her innocence. An interesting series about what happens behind closed doors. Criminal Justice is streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. 

5. Gullak: A middle-class family. Their little and not-so-little trials and tribulations. Small moments of joy and big sources of tensions. Surviving through all these ups and downs is an adorable family with a lot of heart! Gullak is streaming on SonyLiv and on TVF Play. 

6. Empire: The story of how the Mughals (i.e. Babar) arrived in India. A really nicely made series based on the book by Alex Rutherford. Empire is streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.

7. Kathmandu Chronicles: A dreaded gangster is obsessed with a newsreader. Cops are trying to find him and arrest him. They decide to use the newsreader as bait. But is everything really as it seems? An interesting series loosely based on true events, Kathmandu Chronicles is streaming on SonyLiv. 

8. Maharani: When the Chief Minister is sent to jail accused of a scam, his wife is made the interim CM. She is expected to toe the line and not rock the boat because she is just a simple housewife. However, this "simple housewife" has a voice of her own and she refuses to be a proxy. A nicely done political drama inspired by the events in 1990s Bihar, Maharani is streaming on SonyLiv. 

9. Special Ops 1.5: A backstory of Special Ops' unit chief- Himmat- from when he was a young officer. This half-a-season series is nicely done and is streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. 

10. Aranyak: Slightly similar to Candy in terms of the setting and some of the premise but has enough to be unique and interesting. Residents of a small village up in the hills believe that a mythical creature- half man, half panther- emerges every lunar eclipse and kills people. When a young French girl is found raped, murdered and strung up in the pine trees, the new SP in town and the outgoing SP reluctantly team up to solve this media-buzzy case and catch the killer. Aranyak is streaming on Netflix. 

Hope you found something new to watch from this list! If you have something to add to this list, let me know on Instagram.