Amazon Prime as all we know is an international Streaming Platform debuted in India around 2016. In the first couple of years after it started its operations in India it was mainly dependent of Global content and had very less Hindi Web Series. Since 2018, It had made amends with few blockbusters including Mirzapur, The Family Man and Panchayat. Let us now look some of the must watch web series in Amazon Prime.

Mirzapur

Release Date: November, 2018
Number of Episodes: 19
Number of Seasons : 2
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
Genre: Crime Thriller
Main Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Faizal, Rasika Dugal, Kulbhushan Karbanda, Rasika Dugal, Isha Talwar, Divyendu Sharma, Shweta Tripathi 




The story is mainly about Mafia war in city of Mirzapur. The iron-fisted Akhandanand Tripathi (Pankaj Tripathi) is a millionaire carpet exporter and the mafia don of Mirzapur. His son, Munna (Divyendu Sharma), is an unworthy, power-hungry heir who will stop at nothing to inherit his father's legacy. An incident at a wedding procession forces him to cross paths with Ramakant Pandit, an upstanding lawyer, and his sons, Guddu and Bablu. It snowballs into a game of ambition, power and greed that threatens the fabric of this lawless city.

Season 2 got released in October 2020.The second season started with Akhandanand Tripathi focussing on his business and conquering a larger territory to remain the King of Mirzapur.

If you like Mafia war based theme, then this is good series to watch.

Mirazapur  has been renewed for Season 3 by Amazon Prime, and expected to be released  later this year

The Family Man

Release Date: September, 2019
Number of Episodes: 19
Number of Seasons : 2
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10
Genre: Spy Thriller
Main Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi, Sharad Kelkar, Gul Panag (Season 1), Samantha Akkineni (Season 2)




Season 1 was released in September 2019. Main theme of the Series follows the story of Srikant Tiwari (Manoj Bajpayee), who works as a senior officer in the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), along with his best friend and colleague JK Talpade (Sharib Hashmi), which is a part of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India. He is a married man with two kids. The first season follows an investigation of a potential terrorist attack, while simultaneously following his slightly unsettled family life. Srikant and JK, along with their subordinates Zoya, Milind and Jayesh, and Force One officer Imran Pasha work on stopping Mission Zulfiqar from succeeding. The show is inspired by real life newspaper articles

Season 2 was released in Jun 2021. The story line focuses on a Tamil Tigers-esque military resistance from Sri Lanka and their plans for a freedom fight. 

Season 3 preview was shown at the end of the Season 2 with main theme going to be China attack in North-eastern states of India while India is distracted by Covd-19 pandemic. Release date of Season 3 is not known yet.

Panchayat

Release Date: April, 2020
Streaming Platform - Amazon Prime
Number of Episodes: 16
Number of Seasons : 2
IMDB Rating: 8.9/10
Genre: Comedy
Main Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Chandan Roy, Faisal Malik



The series deals with the experiences of a engineering graduate boy from a city who is not familiar with village cultures, completing his graduation gets a low salary job of a Secretary of a Gram panchayat in a remote village called Phulera in Uttar Pradesh.

Each of the main characters Secretary (Jintendra Kumar),  Pradhan-Pati (Raghubir Yadav), Pradhan (Neena Gutpa),  Upa-Pradhan (Faisal Malik), Office Assistant (Chandan Roy) have been characterized and played very well by these characters.

In Season 2, they also introduced new characters like Rinky (Pradhan's daughter), Kranti Devi, MLA etc.

One might at times the episodes are slow faced, I feel since this is rural based theme and each character has been given its own space to develop, one would't mind this slow nature.

There was much wide gap between Season 1 and Season2 (was released in May 2022), due to Covid pandemic. 

Hopefully Season 3 should get released next year.

Modern Love: Mumbai

Release Date: May, 2022
Number of Episodes: 6
Number of Seasons : 1
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
Genre: Romance



Modern Love Mumbai explores 6 unique yet universal stories of human connection and love in its varied forms – romantic, platonic, parental, sexual, familial, marital, self love. Inspired by the beloved New York Times column, this edition of the hugely popular original version of the same name, explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms against the city of dreams, Mumbai.

Story 1: Raat Rani
Cast: Fatima Sana Shaikh

Lali (Fatima Shaikh) is a cook, and her husband Lutfi a security guard, in an upscale apartment in Mumbai, far from their native Kashmir. Long days end with ice cream - one cup, two spoons - until suddenly he dumps her, breaking her heart and shattering her dreams. All he leaves behind is his old bicycle. Together, can Lali and her cycle cross the bridge to a better life?

Story 2: Baai
Cast: Pratik Gandhi, Ranveer Brar, Tanuja

Manzu (Pratik Gandhi), a gay man who grew up in a conservative household, is torn between the love for his partner (Ranveer Brar) and Baai (Tanuja), his ailing and ever doting grandmother. When he visits her in their ancestral home, the past catches up with him as the pain and pangs of his childhood take him back to a reality he had long left behind. After all these years, will Manzu find the strength to tell his truth to Baai?

Story 3: Mubai Dragon
Cast: Meiyang Chang, Wamiqa Gabbi, Naseeruddin Shah 

The currency of love is different for all but for Sui, it is the food that she cooks for her son, Ming (Meiyang Chang). When that is threatened by the entrance of his girlfriend Megha (Wamiqa Gabbi,) in Ming's life, Sui vows to the Warrior God, Kwan Tai Kwon, that she will not speak in Hindi until he brings her son back to her. Mumbai Dragon is Sui's journey of realizing that sometimes letting go is the truest form of love.

Story 4: My Beautiful Wrinkles
Cast: Sarika

Dilbar Sodhi (Sarika) tries to grapple with a young man's declaration of sexual interest in her. It sets her on a path of dealing with the baggage from her past, and re-discovering the joy of life.

Story 5: I Love Thane
Cast: Masaba Gupta, Ritwik Bhowmik

About Saiba's (Masaba Gupta) journey of finding the right modern man amidst the plethora of men on dating apps. However, life has other plans for her when she meets someone who isn't the 'modern man' she had set out to find, and is timeless.

Story 6: Cutting Chai
Cast: Arshad Warsi, Chitrangda Singh 

In her 40s, Latika (Chitrangda Singh) is caught in the humdrum of marriage and motherhood and regrets not having fulfilled her dream of being a novelist. One eventful day she finds herself re-evaluating all her choices in life thus far, even her marriage. As bittersweet memories and 'what if' fantasies run parallel in her mind, she understands that questioning her past is futile, the answers all lie within her.

All stories are pretty good with strong characters and good actors, I personally like the Story1- Raat Rani, Story 5- I love Thane and the last one Story 6 - Cutting Chai.