Welcome back. If you haven’t read Part 1 of this list, start there, we covered entries #15 through #8, including Gullak, Rocket Boys, Delhi Crime, Aspirants, Kota Factory, and more. All excellent, all worth your time.
But now we’re getting into the real territory. The top 7 in any list of the best Hindi web series of all time are the shows that didn’t just entertain people, they created cultural moments, spawned memes, changed viewing habits, launched careers, and in some cases permanently altered what Indian storytelling could aspire to be.
Let’s finish this properly. These are the seven shows that define what the best Hindi web series of all time actually looks like when Indian OTT is firing on all cylinders. Part 1 set the foundation, Part 2 is where the best Hindi web series of all time list gets serious.
#7 — Panchayat (Amazon Prime Video) | IMDb: 9.1/10
Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Chandan Roy Seasons: 4 (Season 5 expected in 2026) | Genre: Comedy-Drama / Slice of Life Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
There is absolutely no business reason why a show about a city-educated engineering graduate reluctantly taking up a government secretary position in a tiny, dusty UP village should be one of the most beloved Indian web series ever made. No high-stakes action. No twists. No glamorous production design. And yet, Panchayat sits comfortably in every serious conversation about the best Hindi web series of all time because it does something almost no other Indian show manages: it makes you deeply, quietly care.
Created by Chandan Kumar and produced by The Viral Fever (TVF), Panchayat is built on the kind of patient, unhurried storytelling that network television abandoned decades ago. Jitendra Kumar’s Abhishek Tripathi starts as an outsider looking down at the village he’s been posted to, and across four seasons, the show charts, without ever announcing it loudly, how that outsider becomes part of something he didn’t expect to need.
The real showstoppers, though, are Raghubir Yadav and Neena Gupta as Pradhan Ji and his wife Manju Devi. Yadav, who has been one of India’s finest character actors for decades, is absolutely in his element here. And Neena Gupta, whose character gets increasingly more screen time and complexity as the seasons progress, delivers what may honestly be the most underrated performance in Indian OTT history. By Season 4, Manju Devi’s arc has evolved into something genuinely moving, and the season’s emotional finale broke the internet for a week.
Season 5 is reportedly in development for later in 2026. If there’s a show that earns the anticipation, it’s this one. Panchayat is the kind of show that makes people realise the best Hindi web series of all time don’t need guns or glamour, just honest writing and actors who fully inhabit their characters.
Why it’s on this list: Among the best Hindi web series of all time, Panchayat is proof that the quietest stories often hit the hardest. No formula. No spectacle. Just tremendous character work, done with respect.
#6 — Made in Heaven (Amazon Prime Video) | IMDb: 8.5/10
Cast: Arjun Mathur, Sobhita Dhulipala, Jim Sarbh, Kalki Koechlin, Shashank Arora Seasons: 2 | Genre: Drama / Social Commentary Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti co-created Made in Heaven, and the pedigree alone tells you this wasn’t going to be a conventional show. But what the series actually delivers is something richer than most of its publicity suggested, it’s an anthology-style drama wrapped around a central relationship, where each episode’s wedding becomes a lens through which Delhi’s upper class gets slowly dissected.
Tara (Sobhita Dhulipala) and Karan (Arjun Mathur) run a luxury wedding planning company from opposite ends of Delhi’s social spectrum, she’s clawed her way up from a middle-class background, he’s a gay man hiding that identity in a world that isn’t ready to see it. Each wedding they plan carries its own story: a child marriage disguised by money, a bride from a lower caste asserting herself against in-laws, an NRI wedding where everyone’s performing a version of India they no longer actually inhabit.
Jim Sarbh (yes, him again, the man is everywhere on this list and for good reason) has a smaller but pivotal role that he makes unforgettable. Kalki Koechlin’s arc across both seasons is genuinely gutting if you follow it carefully. Made in Heaven is one of the boldest entries in the best Hindi web series of all time conversation because it refuses to let its audience look away from uncomfortable truths.
Why it’s on this list: For a list of the best Hindi web series of all time, Made in Heaven is the entry that most directly confronts what Indian society wants to pretend isn’t happening. That’s a specific kind of courage.
#5 — The Family Man (Amazon Prime Video) | IMDb: 8.7/10
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi, Samantha Ruth Prabhu Seasons: 2 (Season 3 in development) | Genre: Spy Thriller / Dark Comedy Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
The premise of The Family Man sounds like it could easily become a one-note joke: Srikant Tiwari (Manoj Bajpayee) is a middle-class intelligence officer at TASC, a covert government cell tracking terrorism threats, who earns a government salary, argues with his wife about kitchen upgrades, and worries about his kids’ marks at school while simultaneously trying to prevent mass casualty events. The joke being: India’s secret protector is completely ordinary.
Season 2 brought Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Raji, an elite Sri Lankan Tamil rebel on a mission of her own, and her work here remains one of the most striking villain-adjacent performances in Indian OTT history. She performed all her own stunts. She’s onscreen for maybe a third of the season. She steals it completely.
Season 3 has been in development and is expected to be set in Northeast India. The wait has been long but this show has earned the patience. Two seasons in, The Family Man has already done enough to cement its place among the best Hindi web series of all time and Season 3 hasn’t even dropped yet.
Why it’s on this list: The Family Man belongs in any definitive list of the best Hindi web series of all time because it genuinely invented a tone that Indian OTT had never found before, patriotic thriller meets kitchen-sink domestic drama and executed it at the highest level.
#4 — Mirzapur (Amazon Prime Video) | IMDb: 8.5/10
Cast: Ali Fazal, Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi, Shweta Tripathi, Rasika Dugal Seasons: 3 | Genre: Crime Thriller / Dark Drama Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
Let’s address what Mirzapur actually is before talking about why it’s among the best Hindi web series of all time: it is a violent, sprawling, deeply uncompromising crime epic set in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, where power and survival are the only currencies that matter. It is not subtle. It is not restrained. And it was never trying to be either of those things.
Pankaj Tripathi as Kaleen Bhaiya is an all-timer. The character is terrifying precisely because he’s measured, almost philosophical, a man who orders deaths the way others schedule meetings. Ali Fazal’s transformation across three seasons from a reluctant participant to someone who has fully absorbed the world’s logic is one of the most convincing character arcs in the show.
Vikrant Massey’s Bablu deserves a specific mention even though I won’t spoil anything, what that character goes through, and how Massey handles it, is the emotional gut-punch that elevates Mirzapur from good crime content to genuinely affecting drama.
Season 3 landed in 2024 to strong viewership, and the series shows no signs of slowing down culturally. Three seasons deep and still culturally dominant, very few entries in the best Hindi web series of all time list can claim that kind of staying power.
Why it’s on this list: In the conversation about the best Hindi web series of all time, Mirzapur is the one that proved Indian OTT could go all the way, uncut, unfiltered, and completely on its own terms.
#3 — Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (SonyLIV) | IMDb: 9.2/10
Cast: Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Satish Kaushik, Rajat Kapoor Seasons: 1 | Genre: Biographical / Financial Thriller Where to Watch: SonyLIV
Here’s the number that matters before anything else: 9.2 on IMDb, making Scam 1992 the highest-rated Indian web series on the platform, sitting above nearly every show on this entire list. And the more remarkable thing is that it achieves that rating with a subject that should alienate most viewers: the technical mechanics of a 1992 stock market scam.
Director Hansal Mehta and his team, adapting journalist Sucheta Dalal and Debashish Basu’s book The Scam, had to make Dalal Street in the 1980s and 90s feel like the most exciting place in the world. They did. The series follows Harshad Mehta’s rise from a middle-class Gujarati boy dreaming of making it big, through his transformation into “the Bachchan of BSE,” and finally his exposure and fall. The fact that a financial thriller with no major Bollywood stars holds a 9.2 on IMDb years after release is all the evidence you need that Scam 1992 belongs at the very top of the best Hindi web series of all time.
Shreya Dhanwanthary as journalist Sucheta Dalal, the woman who broke the story and brought Mehta down, gives the counterweight performance the show needed and doesn’t get enough credit for it.
The show was filmed across 200 locations and the recreation of 1980s–90s Bombay is impressive for an Indian OTT budget. It won 11 awards at the 2021 Filmfare OTT Awards including Best Drama Series, Best Director, and Best Actor.
Why it’s on this list: When people argue about the best Hindi web series of all time, Scam 1992 is the one that ends most arguments because a 9.2 IMDb rating from a mass Indian audience for a financial thriller with no stars is an achievement that almost shouldn’t be possible.
#2 — Mirzapur… just kidding. It’s Sacred Games (Netflix) | IMDb: 8.9/10
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Pankaj Tripathi, Kalki Koechlin, Kubra Sait Seasons: 2 | Genre: Neo-Noir Crime Thriller Where to Watch: Netflix
Sacred Games holds a unique position in the history of Indian web content: it is the show that made everything else possible. India’s first Netflix original series, adapted from Vikram Chandra’s 900-page novel of the same name, co-directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap, Sacred Games wasn’t just a television show, it was a proof of concept. It proved that Indian storytelling, with the right platform and the right creative freedom, could produce something that sat comfortably alongside the best international prestige drama.
The premise: Mumbai cop Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan, in the best performance of his career) receives an anonymous call from fugitive gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), warning him that the city has 25 days before something catastrophic happens. The show runs two parallel timelines, Sartaj’s present-day investigation, and Gaitonde’s past told in sprawling, violent flashback and gradually reveals how they’re connected through Mumbai’s politics, religion, organised crime, and the 1993 riots.
Kubra Sait’s portrayal of Kukoo, a trans woman in Gaitonde’s life, was a landmark moment in mainstream Indian content’s depiction of trans identity, and it was handled with more grace and complexity than most dedicated “social issue” productions manage.
Sacred Games earned a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and was watched by twice as many people outside India as within, on Netflix’s platform, in its first season, numbers that no Indian show had seen before. Numbers like that don’t happen by accident, they happen when a show genuinely earns the title of best Hindi web series of all time material from every direction simultaneously.
Season 2 is messier, less tightly plotted, and the ending remains divisive. None of that changes what Season 1 achieved or why Sacred Games permanently belongs in every serious conversation about the best Hindi web series of all time.
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Why it’s at #2: Because without Sacred Games, the rest of this list might look very different. It changed the ceiling. Everything on this list of the best Hindi web series of all time exists in a world that Sacred Games helped create.
#1 — Panchayat? No. It’s Actually…
You might have expected Sacred Games to take the top spot. It probably deserves it on pure cultural-impact grounds. But the show I’m putting at number one in this list of the best Hindi web series of all time isn’t the flashiest, the darkest, or the most cinematically ambitious entry here. It’s the one that, in my honest opinion, does the most with the least and does it so well that people still discover it fresh today and call it a revelation.
#1 — Scam 1992 steals the top only in ratings, but my #1 is: TVF Aspirants + Panchayat (tied, and here’s why)
Actually, ranking the best Hindi web series of all time means accepting that some shows can’t be separated by a number. I’m not going to manufacture a fake hierarchy between two shows that serve completely different functions and both do them perfectly. If you want the single most emotionally complete Hindi web series of all time: Aspirants. If you want the one that could keep running for 10 seasons and still feel fresh: Panchayat. Put them both at #1 and argue with someone else about the ranking.
But if I have to name the single show I would show someone who had never watched Indian web content and wanted to understand what it’s capable of at its absolute ceiling, it’s Scam 1992. The numbers don’t lie, the awards don’t lie, and five years after release, the fact that it still holds a 9.2 on IMDb doesn’t lie.
Scam 1992 is #1. And it’s not particularly close. If you’ve read both parts of this best Hindi web series of all time list and still haven’t started one of these shows, what are you waiting for?
The Full Ranked List at a Glance
Here’s the complete best Hindi web series of all time ranking across both parts, all in one place for easy reference:
| Rank | Show | Platform | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | SonyLIV | 9.2 |
| #2 | Sacred Games | Netflix | 8.9 |
| #3 | The Family Man | Prime Video | 8.7 |
| #4 | Mirzapur | Prime Video | 8.5 |
| #5 | Made in Heaven | Prime Video | 8.5 |
| #6 | Panchayat | Prime Video | 9.1 |
| #7 | Aspirants | YouTube/TVF | 9.4 |
| #8 | Paatal Lok | Prime Video | 8.4 |
| #9 | Farzi | Prime Video | 8.5 |
| #10 | Kota Factory | Netflix | 9.0 |
| #11 | TVF Pitchers | ZEE5 | 9.1 |
| #12 | Delhi Crime | Netflix | 8.5 |
| #13 | Rocket Boys | SonyLIV | 8.9 |
| #14 | Gullak | SonyLIV | 9.1 |
| #15 | TVF Aspirants S2 / Hostel Daze | Prime Video | 8.5+ |
This table covers both parts of the best Hindi web series of all time list, bookmark it, share it, argue with it in the comments.
What Did I Miss?
Every list like this is a conversation, not a verdict. Shows I considered but didn’t include: Special OPS (close call), Criminal Justice (Pankaj Tripathi was magnificent), Jamtara (sharp but uneven), Bandish Bandits (beautiful, niche), and Aarya (Sushmita Sen was incredible but the show itself was inconsistent). Drop your disagreements in the comments, the debate is half the fun. The best Hindi web series of all time conversation is never fully closed, every year, a new show makes you rethink the rankings.
Missed Part 1 of the best Hindi web series of all time list? Catch entries #15 through #8 here , including Gullak, Paatal Lok, Kota Factory, and more. Sharing this list with someone who hasn’t explored Indian OTT yet is genuinely one of the best things you can do for them, the best Hindi web series of all time hold up against anything streaming globally right now. Whether you start from #1 or #15, every single show on this best Hindi web series of all time list is worth your time, no filler, no padding, every entry earned its spot.