Top 5 Indian Series on Netflix to Binge Watch

These days we find really interesting Indian series on Netflix. Some are based on real events whereas some are fictional. Here is a list of those series:

1.   Delhi Crime 2

An Indian crime drama streaming television series written and directed by Richie Mehta, casting director Radhesh More and produced by Golden Karaven, Ivanhoe Productions, Film Karavan and Poor Man's Productions. The series star Shefali Shah, Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain and Rajesh Tailang. The first season is set in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi gang rape. The second season focuses on the Chaddi Baniyan Gang. Based on Moon Gazer, a chapter from ex-top cop Neeraj Kumar’s book Khaki Files, the moral dilemmas that have been woven into the narrative gives the series its sharp claws that scratches the conscience. Can an entire tribe be castigated for the transgressions of a few?

2.   Sacred Games

 An Indian neo-noir crime thriller streaming television series based on Vikram Chandra's 2006 novel of the same name. India's first Netflix original series, it was produced and directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap as Phantom Films. When police officer Sartaj Singh receives an anonymous tip about the location of criminal overlord Ganesh Gaitonde, he embarks on a chase around Mumbai in what becomes a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. Amidst the chaos, trappings of a corrupt underworld are revealed. After being removed from the Gaitonde case, Singh begins his own investigation as he works to save Mumbai from impending doom. Flashbacks reveal some of the crimes that Gaitonde has committed through the years. 

3.   Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega 

An Indian crime drama web television series created & directed by Soumendra Padhi and written by Trishant Srivastava. The story revolves around the social engineering operations in the Jamtara district of Jharkhand. Cousins Sunny and Rocky and their friends run a wildly successful phishing scam from the remote village of Jamtara in Jharkhand; things go awry when the scam gets ousted in a news report.

4.   House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

Netflix has been stepping up the game with every true crime documentary it’s producing in the Indian context. House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths (released on October 8, 2021) follows the successful formula of Indian Predators and Crime Stories: Indian Detectives but is also Netflix’s most ambitious and challenging Indian docuseries yet. In 2018, 11 members of the Chundawat family were found dead in their house in Sant Nagar, Burari, Delhi, with their eyes blindfolded. This gruesome incident forms the premise of the three-episode docuseries House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths, directed by Leena Yadav.

5.   Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi

An Indian Netflix true crime docuseries which premiered on 20 July 2022. Produced by VICE India and directed by Ayesha Sood, The Butcher of Delhi explores the both the police investigation and motives of Chandrakant Jha, a serial killer who, in 2006–2007, left three decapitated victims outside the Tihar Jail accompanied by mocking notes. It is the first in a Netflix true crime series about serial killers. The Butcher of Delhi revisits the case of Chandrakant Jha, who was convicted in 2013 for three murders that were committed in the capital between 2003 and 2007.