If you are planning a weekend binge, these web shows bring everything from crime and history to romance, school drama and family stories. The list includes recent releases as well as popular series across Netflix, Prime Video and ZEE5.
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1. Chumbak (Netflix)
Five families living in the same old Mumbai row-house slowly become much more than neighbours. As they deal with parenting, marriage, ageing and everyday problems, their shared joys and troubles bring them closer like an extended family. The series turns ordinary domestic life into a warm story about relationships and belonging.
2. Waiting Hai (Prime Video)
After joining the RPF, Sugam starts looking into a Tatkal ticket scam that has grown into a serious illegal business. Hamza and Mama use booking software to make money, but rivalry and betrayal begin weakening their operation as Sugam closes in. The investigation finally turns into a race to stop Hamza before he can escape to Dubai.
3. Crew Girl (Netflix)
Teagan Tao arrives at Easton Prep carrying the fallout of her father’s fraud scandal and hoping for a fresh start. Joining the boys’ rowing team as a coxswain gives the 16-year-old a new purpose, but friendships, competition and her feelings for Josh and Cam soon make school life complicated again. The series mixes teenage romance with sport and rebuilding your identity after a family crisis.
4. Operation Safed Sagar (Netflix)
Inspired by the Indian Air Force’s role in the 1999 Kargil War, the series follows young pilots from the Golden Arrows Squadron preparing for an extremely difficult mission in the mountains. High altitude, dangerous terrain and enemy positions turn the operation into a severe test of skill and courage. Siddharth, Jimmy Shergill and Abhay Verma lead this military drama about duty, sacrifice and teamwork.
5. The Revolutionaries (Prime Video)
Four young Indians decide that fighting British rule requires them to take a far more dangerous path. Inspired by Sanjeev Sanyal’s book, the historical drama follows their choice of armed resistance and the sacrifices that come with challenging an empire. Bhuvan Bam, Rohit Saraf, Pratibha Ranta and Gurfateh Pirzada lead the story.
6. Musafir Cafe (Netflix)
Chander, Sudha and Preeti find their lives crossing between Bhopal and Mussoorie as love, loss and personal choices pull them in different directions. Across eight episodes, each of them must decide whether to keep living according to other people’s expectations or choose the life they actually want. The series uses relationships and separation to explore freedom, belonging and emotional change.
7. The Gentlemen Season 2 (Netflix)
Eddie Horniman and Susie Glass are ready to take their hidden cannabis operation far beyond Britain and build a criminal network across Europe. Their move towards Italy and Rome puts them against wealthy families and international criminals who have no intention of giving up control. Season 2 turns their growing ambition into a much more dangerous fight for power.
8. Neagley (Prime Video)
Frances Neagley is working as a private investigator in Chicago when someone important from her past dies in what appears to be a suspicious accident. Looking into the death leads the former Army investigator towards a dangerous organisation with much wider reach than she expected. Maria Sten leads this first Reacher spinoff, with Alan Ritchson appearing as Jack Reacher.
9. Mirzapur (Prime Video)
Mirzapur follows the dark, violent ascent of Guddu Pandit and Golu Gupta as they transform from ordinary citizens into ruthless mobsters to avenge their families against the ruling Tripathi clan, led by the cunning mafia don Kaleen Bhaiya and his volatile son Munna. Set in the lawless underbelly of Uttar Pradesh, the series tracks a shifting, bloody war for control of the region’s criminal empire, where shifting alliances, political corruption, and brutal betrayals continuously reshape who sits on the coveted throne of Purvanchal.
10. Adarsh Baal Vidyalaya (Prime Video)
Gyaneshwar Tripathi has comfortably managed one of Delhi’s weakest government schools until a chance to attend a Cambridge training programme gives him a reason to improve it. Transforming the school means dealing with poor facilities, difficult parents, unruly children and an unusual teaching team. The series finds comedy and hope in one headmaster’s attempt to fix a school many people have already written off.
Bonus: Ghamasaan (ZEE5)
STF officer Aditya sets out to capture feared dacoit Maharaj across the dangerous landscape of Bundelkhand. The hunt gradually reveals that the case is tied to corruption and much larger struggles for power, making the conflict far more complicated than catching one criminal. The series turns their chase into a tense political crime drama.
Whether you want a warm family drama, a hard-hitting crime story or an intense historical series, this weekend watchlist has plenty of variety.
