33 Indian Web Series You Can Watch With Your Family and Where to Watch Them

Yeh Meri Family takes us down a nostalgic to our pasts (for the millennial generation) with a middle-class family in Jaipur in summer of 1998. The show is extremely relatable to every 90s kid, funny, hilarious all for the innocent and naughty Harshu. All the things you remember of the 90s, the cassettes, Maruti Esteem, VCR, DDLJ, relishing mangoes in summers, the power cuts and the innocent ideologies. The story is set in a backdrop of 1998 where Mario and Ludo were the most important games of our lives when siblings shared more than just time and where life was the happiest when we got gola instead of ice cream. Narrated from the eyes of Harshu, a twelve-year-old and like any 12 years old, he just wants to play have fun and dreaded with studies. Yeh Meri Family focuses on family values and the relationship between family members going beyond selfish needs. The world of Yeh Meri Family is not driven by competition but by love. And the songs of the series are a fresh air amongst Arijit Singh and Neha Kakkar. The title track is even sung by Udit Narayan! Nostalgic much?

It portrays the love story of Tamanna, a pop star, and Radhe, a classical singer. Radhe comes from a family where his grandfather believes that music should be pure and unadulterated. When they face economic difficulties, Radhe’s father sends him to work at an office job though he dreams of winning his grandfather’s heart with his music. Tamanna, from Mumbai, makes pop songs but when the record company cancels her contract, she sets off to Jodhpur. This refreshing web series is filled with different genres of music and many playback singers have lent their talented voices to this series. It deals with love, music, and generation gap, misogyny, and more. This series leaves us with a question, can Hindustani classical music and pop music co-exist?

It is a comedy web series that revolves around the life of an engineer, Abhishek who cannot find a job. Unable to sit at home, he is compelled to take a job as a Panchayat secretary in a remote village. He is stuck there between odd villagers, a low salary, and has no other option but to eat ‘lauki ki sabzi' every day. As he is born and brought up in a city, he gets tired of living in a village. He wants to get out of there in any way possible but before his wish comes true, he gets on to implementing government policies, and more as part of his job as Panchayat Sachiv. This show is filled with humor and gives us a peek into the lives and ways of village people.

Gullak is a story set in a small town in North India. Where the current storytelling scenario focuses on crime dramas, Gullak is a breath of fresh air. The Mishras are a small, lower-middle-class family who find happiness in small things. The five-episode ride savours the many flavours of life.

Sometimes happiness knocks your door when you're least expecting it. That's exactly what happens with Neel and Sameera, when one mundane day an unwanted guest- a big ol' golden retriever, accidentally enters their home and turns their life around in ways more than one. The story of cheesecake revolves around how the unconditional love of a pet plays a key role in bringing the couple closer and helping them find happiness in each other's company.

The Malhotras, a middle-aged couple consult a psychiatrist thinking that all their couple friends getting divorced will affect their married life too. Their not-so-good parenting skills, raising 3 kids, the inability of communication and quirky pet peeves make their every conversation funny. The psychiatrist adds up to the laughable element by making suggestions like asking the couple to spice up their sex life. The fun lighthearted argument over petty issues reveals amusing details about their lifestyle and family. It is an adaptation of an Israeli series La Famiglia.

Created by Bengaluru-based comedy group Them Boxer Shorts (TBS), Better Life Foundation is a mockumentary web series with small 20-minute episodes. The story follows the life at an NGO named, Better Life Foundation through its five passionate workers and a reluctant volunteer ensuing some serious satirical comedy of errors. The show does bear some similarities to American political satire sitcoms like Parks and Recreation and The Office but it exhibits some chaotic workplace comedy that works on lines of content that keeps it ahead of its other Internet contemporaries. While the format would feel new to the Indian audience, the show not only introduces you to it but also expands upon it, making each episode an insightful yet amusing joyride.

A fresh piece in the crowded arena of crime-thriller-suspense filled with drugs, sex and terrible murder. Aditya is an active football player, an MBA student, helping his brother-in-law and father in the cab driving business. He was all set to party the night away when his sister, Avni, asks him to drive the cab for some extra bucks during the rush hour. The last trip stretches long as Sanaya, a passenger, keeps changing her location. After dropping her home, Aditya realizes that she has left her phone and drives back to return it. The two share a drink which leads them to spend a steamy night together. Much to his horror, upon waking up, Sanaya is murdered. The worst is, he doesnt remember anything. Where else Adityas life will go - but, is he really innocent?

Laakhon Mein Ek brings out the gloomy hyper-competitive atmosphere of IIT Coaching. The story is about a 15-year-old boy, Aakash, whose lifes aim is acting & post mimicry videos online but is trapped in the burden of his fathers dreams. As Biswa would quote Aakash is launched in a projectile by his parents, to a pressure chamber of coaching, finds his equilibrium on meeting Bakri & Chudail, but his roots are ripped off, he hits a Minima & finds himself by embracing the Entropy of life. Will he survive in the jungle or will he quit and pursue his dreams? Is IIT that important that the actual dreams are secondary? The title Track Pending Sapne itself invites you to watch the whole series.

The series revolves around a huge family of 7 members each having a crisis of their own. A retired army general is well set with his family when his younger brother decides to pay a visit to his hometown and then starts a series of issues, blame game and problems. The family pretends to be perfect but is very complicated in reality.

Selection Day, a Netflix Original Web Series is inspired from the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Selection Day, written by Arvind Adiga. The story revolves around two brothers, Radha and Manju, who are inhabitants of a village in Madhya Pradesh and have an over-ambitious father who is keen on making them successful cricketers in the future. He takes them to Mumbai to enroll them in a sports institution to receive the necessary training for their selection during the Selection Day. While Radha is actually in love with the sport, Manju is into cricket only because he has no courage to oppose his obsessive father. However, as the story proceeds, things start changing as they realize that the world of cricket is not actually what it seems to be.

Special Ops is a slow-burning espionage thriller. The storyline revolves around Himmat Singh, known for his intelligence and ethical works in the Research and Analysis Wing. Himmat pursues the main suspect of the 2002 Parliament attack, drawing a similar pattern linked between the last few terror attacks. He is convinced that a single mind is behind all this. Therefore, he sets out a team working together from different corners of the world to hunt down the criminal mastermind. Will Himmat and his team be able to hunt him down? Follow the quest of Himmat and his team on Hotstar in eight different languages.

A middle-class guy, who is also a government employee, a father, and a husband, struggles hard to find a balance between his work and family. Typical! What is not typical is that the man secretly works for an intelligence office department of India. He isn't allowed to talk about his work to anyone outside. Of course, his family juggles to have a piece of him but he juggles as well between trying to keep the country safe from terrorist attacks & grocery shopping for biryani! He is on a mission to save his country from an upcoming threat, while he forgets to pick his kids up from school!

A lie that gets Ronny into trouble every day! A lie that is making Ronnys life difficult! Yet Ronny lives this lie because who doesnt want to be an MLAs nephew and enjoy the perks that come up with it? Or at least thats what the world thinks about him. Ronny, a 26-year old jobless man with troubles and adventures in all spheres of his life, lives a double life. Thanks to his surname, he becomes the messiah of the local people, his friends and the girl he is trying to flatter for they think he is the nephew of the local MLA.

The dynamic story of Lt. Sodhi and his daredevil band of men and women who fought a heroic battle for the independence of India as part of the Indian National Army which was forged out of British defeat in Singapore during WWII and led by the charismatic, indomitable Indian leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

Dr. Mira Anand, a premiere surgeon, is all set to perform a routine operation on the Chief Minister. The night before the operation, her family is thrust into a terrifying political conspiracy when four masked men hold Mira and her family, hostage in their house. These desperate men behind a nasty objective, order her to kill the Chief Minister while operating him to save her family. While the entire family is dealing with problems of its own, the choice becomes more blurry, fraught with tremendous national and personal consequences. With a high-stakes standoff is in play, Mira has to make a decision. Will she take a life to save her loved ones?

Mayanagari-City of Dreams is a story of the quarrel inside the Gaikwad family, which shows how Politics and crime make fascinating mates, impossible to imagine without one another. After a failed attempt of assassination on a well-known political figure in Maharashtra puts him into a coma. This ignites a war between two siblings fighting over the acquisition of power, obscuring the lines between immoral and moral and pushes them in a race of throne. The sister sheds the image of an ideal sacrificing daughter and comes down in the battlefield, claiming her share of power. while the brother is a man child guided by the support patriarchy. The series shows the polarised power struggle. With personal mess and plenty of family shocks, who will get the throne of Mumbais most unifying political leader?

The Office, is an Indian sit-com, showcasing the paper companys boss, Jagdeep Chaddha and his employees, including the various colleagues and their hangups. Jagdeep always tries to make an extra effort for his employees to take him as one of them. However, his boring jokes and failed attempts at sociability fail to dazzle them. As he tries encouraging them persistently, you will get a glimpse of this eccentric workspace. With lame jokes and countless attempts, will Jagdeep Chadda manage to boost the morale of his employees?

Kannan and Kinjal (late 20s), newly married (and a baby on the way), decide to move out of their small New York City apartment to be close to Kinjal's Sister in Metro Park, New Jersey. Their lives take a drastic turn as they realize that they must adapt to a new way of life where their neighbors are all Indian and there is nothing called privacy.

The short episode comedy divulges the shenanigans of two Indian families living in New Jersey(USA), newlywed couple Kanan and Krinjal and an older family Payal and Kalpesh Patel and their children. The show is set in times of COVID-19 and it explores numerous common challenges and new interests created by the pandemic. Payal has to take online dance classes because of lockdown restrictions. Kalpesh picks up some new hobbies like karaoke and cooking. He also hosts a virtual party with his friends. Kannan loses himself and becomes overly cautious to keep the virus as far away from him as possible. He also calls the police when a neighbor violates social distancing rules. The show is centered around the Corona pandemic and the changes it led to, changes that most people can resonate with. The two families deal with wearing masks and social distancing in a comical way.