indian TV Shows & Characters

Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story

2020 · 1 Season

A biographical drama tracing stockbroker Harshad Mehta's rise and the 1992 Indian securities scam, based on the book by Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal.

Made in Heaven

2019–2023 · 2 Seasons

An Indian drama following two Delhi wedding planners, Tara and Karan, whose lavish big-fat-Indian weddings expose the secrets, hypocrisies, and social pressures of their clients.

Panchayat

2020–present · 3 Seasons

An engineering graduate reluctantly becomes secretary of a remote Uttar Pradesh village council, and slowly finds himself drawn into the rhythms and small dramas of rural life.

Kota Factory

2019–present · 3 Seasons

A TVF coming-of-age drama set in Kota, Rajasthan, following teenager Vaibhav Pandey as he navigates the high-pressure world of IIT entrance-exam coaching, guided by the wise mentor Jeetu Bhaiya.

Aspirants

2021–present · 2 Seasons

A TVF Hindi web series following three friends preparing for India's brutally competitive UPSC exam in Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar, told across past and present timelines.

Gullak

2019–present · 4 Seasons

A warm, gently comic slice-of-life series narrated by a piggy bank, following the everyday joys and struggles of the middle-class Mishra family in a small North Indian town.

Farzi

2023–present · 1 Season

A gifted but struggling artist is drawn into running an elaborate counterfeit-currency operation while a volatile task-force officer hunts him down, in Raj and DK's Hindi crime thriller.

Dahaad

2023 · 1 Season

A tenacious lower-caste policewoman in small-town Rajasthan links a string of overlooked disappearances to a single predator, confronting caste and gender bias as she investigates.

Guns and Gulaabs

2023–present · 1 Season

A 1990s-set Netflix retro crime-comedy from Raj and DK, following a lovelorn mechanic, a quirky cop, and assorted gangsters whose lives collide over a single opium deal in a small north Indian town.

Jubilee

2023 · 1 Season

In the golden age of the Bombay film industry, a studio mogul, his manufactured star, a hungry outsider, and a reigning actress collide as a new nation builds its dream factory.

Maharani

2021–present · 3 Seasons

When the Bihar chief minister is incapacitated, his unlettered homemaker wife, Rani Bharti, is installed as a puppet CM and grows into a shrewd, formidable leader in this gritty SonyLIV political drama.

Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar

2024 · 1 Season

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's opulent 2024 Netflix period epic set in 1940s Lahore, following the matriarch Mallikajaan and the women of her house through power struggles, rivalry, and the rising Indian independence movement.

Mismatched

2020–present · 3 Seasons

A driven aspiring app developer and a hopeless romantic, whose families semi-arranged their meeting, clash and connect at a summer coding camp in this sweet Indian Gen-Z romcom.

Killer Soup

2024 · 1 Season

A 2024 Netflix Indian dark-comedy crime series in which aspiring cook Swathi Shastri and her look-alike lover replace her businessman husband after a death, sparking an escalating cover-up farce as a bumbling police investigation closes in.

Aarya

2020–present · 3 Seasons

A devoted mother is forced to take control of her family's dangerous business to protect her children after her husband is killed.

Rocket Boys

2022–2023 · 2 Seasons

A prestige SonyLIV period drama tracing the friendship and ambitions of scientists Homi J. Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai as they build India's nuclear and space programs from the 1940s onward.

Mumbai Diaries

2021–present · 2 Seasons

Indian medical drama following the doctors, nurses, and staff of a Mumbai government hospital ER as they fight to save lives during the night of the 2008 terror attacks.

Trial by Fire

2023 · 1 Season

A 2023 Netflix Hindi limited series based on the true story of the 1997 Uphaar Cinema fire in Delhi, following bereaved parents Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy in their decades-long fight for justice and accountability.

Bombay Begums

2021 · 1 Season

A 2021 Netflix Indian drama following five women across generations and class lines in contemporary Mumbai as they navigate ambition, family, and identity, anchored by bank CEO Rani Irani.

Kaala Paani

2023 · 1 Season

A mysterious outbreak strikes the Andaman and Nicobar Islands days before a major tourist festival, forcing a doctor, an administrator, and ordinary islanders into impossible choices about containment, profit, and human lives.

The Royals

2025 · 1 Season

A self-made startup CEO and an idle prince clash, and then fall for each other, while turning his crumbling palace into a luxury bed-and-breakfast.

Dabba Cartel

2025 · 1 Season

Suburban women running a home tiffin service in Thane slide into a risky new trade, juggling family life and a dangerous double life in this women-led crime dramedy.

Aap Jaisa Koi

2025 · 1 Season

A shy 42-year-old Sanskrit teacher finds unexpected love with a free-spirited French teacher and must confront his own ingrained patriarchy in this 2025 Netflix Hindi romantic comedy-drama.

Dhoom Dhaam

2025 · 1 Season

A mismatched newlywed couple, the cautious Veer and the free-spirited Koyal, are thrown into one chaotic night on the run from gangsters and police over a mysterious name, Charlie, forcing the near-strangers to trust each other.

Nadaaniyan

2025 · 1 Season

A privileged Delhi schoolgirl hires a scholarship student to pose as her fake boyfriend, and the pretense slowly turns into real first love across a class divide.

Citadel: Honey Bunny

2024 · 1 Season

In the Citadel universe, a 1990s Bombay stuntman recruits an aspiring actress into covert spy work; years later the pair must protect their young daughter when their past catches up. A retro, propulsive Hindi spy-thriller with heart from Raj and DK.

Black Warrant

2025 · 1 Season

A 2025 Netflix Hindi prison drama from Vikramaditya Motwane, based on a true memoir, following idealistic young jailer Sunil Gupta inside Delhi's Tihar Jail in the 1980s.

Maamla Legal Hai

2024-2025 · 2 Seasons

A warm, witty Hindi ensemble comedy about the lawyers, clerks, and chancers of a chaotic Delhi district court, led by the wily senior advocate VD Tyagi.

Gram Chikitsalay

2025 · 1 Season

An idealistic city doctor takes charge of a neglected rural health centre in a Bihar village and must win over skeptical locals, an indifferent staff and a charming quack rival.

The Bads of Bollywood

2025 · 1 Season

A starry-eyed outsider claws toward Bollywood stardom amid nepotism, scandal, and showbiz absurdity in Aryan Khan's self-aware industry satire.

Dupahiya

2025 · 1 Season

In the crime-free village of Dhadakpur, the theft of a prized dowry motorcycle on the eve of the 25th-anniversary celebration throws the whole community into warm, Panchayat-style comic chaos.

Test

2025 · 1 Season

A 2025 Netflix Indian sports drama in which a struggling teacher, a pressured cricketer, and a determined woman collide around ambition, integrity, and sacrifice during a high-stakes India and Pakistan Test match.

Superboys of Malegaon

2024-2025 · 1 Season

In the mill town of Malegaon, dreamer Nasir Shaikh rallies his friends to make joyful, no-budget spoof remakes of Bollywood hits, inventing a homegrown cinema of their own.

Be Happy

2025 · 1 Season

A gifted young dancer chases her dream of a national dance reality show while her devoted single father sacrifices everything to support her, even as illness tests the family.

Stolen

2025 · 1 Season

When an infant is snatched from a railway platform, two brothers of very different temperaments are pulled into a tense overnight chase to recover the child, colliding with class divides and rising mob suspicion.

Costao

2025 · 1 Season

The true story of Costao Fernandes, a Goa customs officer who took on a powerful gold-smuggling operation in the 1990s and paid a heavy personal price for refusing to be bought.

Khakee: The Bengal Chapter

2025 · 1 Season

An upright IPS officer wages a methodical war on a Kolkata crime syndicate and its political patrons in this Bengali-rooted installment of the Khakee franchise.

Karmma Calling

2024 · 1 Season

In the glittering high society of Alibaug, a mysterious young woman insinuates herself among the wealthy elite to exact a long-planned revenge against the powerful Kothari family for past wrongs.

Kankhajura

2025 · 1 Season

A SonyLIV crime drama set in Goa, where a man released from prison returns to his brother's family and old wounds and buried secrets resurface.

Mandala Murders

2025 · 1 Season

A suspended cop and a CIB officer investigate a chain of ritualistic killings in the town of Charandaspur, tracing them across a dual timeline to a secret cult chasing a dark idea of perfection.

Salakaar

2025 · 1 Season

A dual-timeline Indian spy thriller in which an operative works deep undercover during the Cold-War-era 1970s while, decades later, a senior intelligence figure races to stop a long-planned threat to the nation from resurfacing.

Khalbali Records

2024 · 1 Season

When an idealistic rockstar dies mid-concert, a music mogul's son breaks from the family label to chase a dream of putting artists first, igniting a clash between commerce and art.

Bandish Bandits

2020-2024 · 2 Seasons

A classically trained prodigy and a pop singer navigate love, legacy, and the clash of musical worlds, with a revered gharana patriarch presiding over it all.

Sarfira

2024 · 1 Season

A fiery, broke ex-air-force man battles entrenched airline barons and bureaucracy to launch a low-cost airline so ordinary Indians can finally afford to fly.

Khauf

2025 · 1 Season

A young woman moves into a Delhi women's hostel to start over and confronts a malevolent presence alongside the everyday fears of city life, in this atmospheric, socially conscious Indian horror series.

Aashram

2020-2023 · 3 Seasons

A charismatic self-styled godman builds a vast devoted following at his ashram while concealing the corruption and abuses of power behind a saintly facade, as a few seekers and a dogged investigation begin to uncover the truth.

Poacher

2024 · 1 Season

A 2024 Indian crime drama in which Kerala forest officers and an NGO race to dismantle one of India's largest ivory poaching networks, based on a real investigation.

The Railway Men

2023 · 1 Season

A four-part Indian drama about the railway workers of Bhopal Junction who stayed at their posts to save thousands of strangers during the 1984 industrial disaster.

The Broken News

2022-2024 · 2 Seasons

An Indian newsroom drama, adapted from the BBC's Press, pitting an idealistic reporter at a principled channel against the ratings-driven team at a sensationalist rival as they clash over truth, TRPs, and the soul of Indian television news.

Half CA

2023 · 1 Season

A grounded TVF coming-of-age dramedy following two chartered-accountancy aspirants from different backgrounds who become roommates and unlikely friends while grinding through brutal exams, internships, and big-city Delhi life.

Rana Naidu

2023-2025 · 2 Seasons

A slick Mumbai fixer who cleans up the messes of the rich and famous sees his carefully managed life upended when his estranged, volatile father is released from prison and re-enters the family, in Netflix's Hindi adaptation of Ray Donovan.

Yeh Meri Family

2018 · 1 Season

Set in the summer of 1998 in Jaipur, this warm TVF coming-of-age dramedy follows 12-year-old Harshu, the overlooked middle child of a middle-class Indian family, through the small rivalries, crushes, and everyday magic of one school vacation.

Little Things

2016-2021 · 4 Seasons

An Indian slice-of-life romance following Kavya and Dhruv, a young live-in couple in Mumbai, as they navigate careers, ambitions, and the quiet ebb and flow of a modern long-term relationship through small, everyday moments.

Tabbar

2021 · 1 Season

A retired, mild-mannered family man in Punjab is pushed to increasingly desperate measures to protect his children after one fateful night, testing how far an ordinary father will go.

The Night Manager

2023 · 1 Season

A composed hotel night manager is recruited by intelligence to assume a new identity and infiltrate the inner circle of a charismatic arms dealer, in Disney+ Hotstar's Hindi adaptation of John le Carre's spy novel.

Undekhi

2020-2024 · 3 Seasons

When a brutal crime at a powerful family's lavish wedding is accidentally caught on camera, a dogged policeman and a conscience-stricken videographer race to expose the truth before the Atwals can bury the evidence.

Modern Love Mumbai

2022 · 1 Season

A six-part Indian anthology set in Mumbai, exploring love in all its forms through standalone stories from different directors.

Gyaarah Gyaarah

2024 · 1 Season

Across the years 1990, 2001, and 2016, a present-day officer and a detective from the past speak through a mysterious walkie-talkie at 11:11, reopening cold cases that a generation had given up on.

Jamtara

2020-2022 · 2 Seasons

A gang of small-town young men runs a thriving phishing scam in Jharkhand until a greedy politician and a dogged cop upend their world.

Anupamaa

2020-2025 · 1 Season

A devoted middle-aged homemaker rediscovers her self-worth, independence, and dreams after decades of putting her family first, in one of India's most-watched Star Plus Hindi family dramas about dignity and self-discovery.

Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin

2020-2025 · 1 Season

A spirited young woman enters an arranged marriage with a dutiful police officer and navigates love, ambition, and a complicated joint family in this hugely popular Star Plus Hindi drama.

Kumkum Bhagya

2014-2025 · 1 Season

A long-running Zee TV Hindi romance drama, loosely inspired by Sense and Sensibility, following a singer-mother and her daughters through love, marriage, and family upheaval, anchored by the love story of gentle Pragya and rockstar Abhi.

Pandya Store

2021-2024 · 1 Season

An Indian Star Plus family drama about four brothers in Gujarat who run their parents' general store and hold their household together through marriages, secrets, and hardship.

Imlie

2020-2024 · 1 Season

A bright, spirited village girl is carried into a sophisticated city family by an unexpected marriage and rises through resilience and integrity, in one of Star Plus's most-watched Hindi family dramas about honesty and belonging.

Bhagya Lakshmi

2021-2025 · 1 Season

A long-running Zee TV Hindi family-romance serial following Lakshmi, a kind and principled young woman whose honesty becomes the moral center of the wealthy Oberoi household as she navigates marriage to Rishi, family intrigue, and destiny.

Mann Ki Awaaz Pratigya

2009-2012 · 1 Season

A long-running Star Plus Hindi family drama set in small-town Uttar Pradesh, following Pratigya, a principled young woman whose firm sense of right and wrong reshapes the tradition-bound family she marries into.

Raja Rani

2017-2020 · 2 Seasons

A warm Tamil family soap on Star Vijay following Semba, a spirited young woman who joins the affluent Rajasekar household, and her slow-blooming marriage to the reserved son Karthik amid the everyday drama of a large joint family.

Karthika Deepam

2017-2022 · 1 Season

A long-running Telugu family serial on Star Maa following Deepa, a devoted wife whose patience and faith hold her household together through hardship, her husband Karthik's choices, and the schemes of the manipulative Monitha.

Kumkumapoovu

2011-2015 · 1 Season

A popular Malayalam family serial on Asianet following Jayanthi, a devoted professor separated from her daughter Shalini at birth, and the secrets, marriages and reconciliations that slowly draw a large traditional household back together.

Gattimela

2019-2024 · 1 Season

A warm Zee Kannada family serial in which a spirited young woman from a modest household and a reserved man from a wealthy family find an unlikely romance that tests, and ultimately binds, both clans.

Aai Kuthe Kay Karte

2019-2024 · 1 Season

A popular Marathi family drama on Star Pravah following Arundhati, a devoted homemaker who rebuilds her sense of self amid family upheaval and rediscovers her own ambitions.

Sreemoyee

2019-2022 · 1 Season

A popular Bengali family serial on Star Jalsha about a devoted homemaker who reclaims her self-worth and independence after years of being taken for granted.

Pandian Stores

2018-2023 · 1 Season

A warm Tamil family serial about four brothers who run their late father's provision store in Kundrakudi, and the daughter-in-law whose arrival quietly unites the household.

Intinti Gruhalakshmi

2021-present · 1 Season

A devoted daughter-in-law becomes the heart of a large Telugu joint family, holding everyone together through warmth, patience, and duty.

Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai

2009-present · 1 Season

A long-running Star Plus family serial following a large Rajasthani joint family across generations of marriages, relationships, and traditions.

Santhwanam

2020-2024 · 1 Season

A devoted eldest son and his steadfast wife hold a large Kerala joint family together in this beloved Malayalam Asianet drama about bonds, duty, and devotion.

Puttakkana Makkalu

2021-present · 1 Season

A Kannada family serial about Puttakka, a single mother who runs a small eatery, and her ambitious eldest daughter Sneha, whose dream of becoming an IAS officer draws their humble household into the orbit of a wealthy family.

Tula Pahate Re

2018-2019 · 1 Season

A Marathi romantic drama about Ishwari, a young middle-class woman, and Vikrant, an older industrialist whose hidden past turns their courtship into a tale of love, mystery, and obsession.

Suzhal: The Vortex

2022-present · 2 Seasons

An acclaimed Tamil-language Amazon Prime mystery in which a small-town girl's disappearance during a temple festival slowly uncovers a community's hidden secrets.

Byomkesh Bakshi

1993-1997 · 2 Seasons

The classic 1990s Doordarshan detective series adapting Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi, a cerebral truth-seeker solving period mysteries in early-twentieth-century Bengal alongside his companion Ajit.

Tripling

2016-2022 · 3 Seasons

Three estranged adult siblings reunite for an impromptu road trip and slowly rediscover their bond in TVF's warm Hindi-language comedy-drama.

Pandit Radhemohan Rathod

Played by Naseeruddin Shah

Radhe Rathod

Played by Ritwik Bhowmik

Tamanna

Played by Shreya Chaudhry

Rana Naidu

Played by Rana Daggubati

Naga

Played by Venkatesh Daggubati

Naina Naidu

Played by Surveen Chawla

Harshad Mehta

Played by Pratik Gandhi

Sucheta Dalal

Played by Shreya Dhanwanthary

Ashwin Mehta

Played by Hemant Kher

Tara Khanna

Played by Sobhita Dhulipala

Karan Mehra

Played by Arjun Mathur

Faiza Naqvi

Played by Kalki Koechlin

Abhishek Tripathi

Played by Jitendra Kumar

Brij Bhushan Dubey (Pradhan-ji)

Played by Raghubir Yadav

Vikas

Played by Chandan Roy

Vaibhav Pandey

Played by Mayur More

Jeetu Bhaiya (Jitendra Kumar)

Played by Jitendra Kumar

Balmukund Meena

Played by Ranjan Raj

Abhilash Sharma

Played by Naveen Kasturia

Sandeep Bhaiya

Played by Sunny Hinduja

Guri

Played by Shivankit Singh Parihar

Santosh Mishra

Played by Jameel Khan

Shanti Mishra

Played by Geetanjali Kulkarni

Annu Mishra

Played by Vaibhav Raj Gupta