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Top 5 South Indian Web Series That Will Keep You Hooked. (Photo Credit – IMDb)

Do you remember the good old days? When we used to be glued to those awesome US and UK TV shows! Like “The Vampire Diaries” for teen girls, “Heroes” for the comic book geeks, “How I Met Your Mother” for the hopeless romantics, and “24” for the thrill-seekers. But man, we were stuck with dial-up before we had super-fast internet. Watching a show meant catching it live or waiting for a rerun or the DVD release. It was a totally different vibe growing up back then, you know?

And let’s talk about India, where TV serials ruled the roost, airing every day instead of once a week like in the West. Sure, folks used to clown them for being mass-produced junk, but they were our bread and butter back then. Then came the internet boom, bringing with...

Disney+ Hotstar’s venture into a full-fledged web series in the Malayalam language would pave the way for many more shows that would be language-specific if given the opportunity. Kerala Crime Files had the makers jump straight into the investigative police drama entirely focused on catching the culprit. There has been an announcement from the makers of the show regarding the team developing a story for the second season. Here we speculate on what could be the subject of the investigation in the next installment.

The entire show had a feel of Delhi Crime, and when the investigation team Kerala Crime Files finally arrested the culprit, there was a walk-through done by the man to understand why he committed the crime, explaining his motive. As I have noticed in many shows in the past about crimes against women, the motive always ends up being a male showcasing a superiority complex,...

The Ott space in India right now is littered with murder investigation dramas. Crime has been the running theme for a while, and jumping on the bandwagon is the brand-new Disney+ Hotstar special, Kerala Crime Files, directed by Ahammed Khabeer and written by Ashiq Aimar. This half-mediocre, half-interesting murder investigation drama takes the viewer on the quest for finding a killer where solving the case takes a back seat, and finding out the entire history of the man takes precedence.

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A Crime Has Been Committed

Set in 2011, the show begins with Sharath, a receptionist working at a shady lodge in the city of Cochin, finding the dead body of a woman in a room, and the man with her is absconding. Sharath is shaken for it is not every day one sees the dead body of a woman and is okay after that. The police arrive at the...

Cinema'Cyanide' is a multilingual project directed by National Film Award winning director Rajesh Touchriver. Digital NativeActor Priyamani, who was last seen in Amazon Prime’s Family Man, is all set to join hands with filmmaker Rajesh Touchriver for an upcoming pan-Indian project titled Cyanide. The film is reportedly based on the life of serial killer 'Cyanide' Mohan, the physical education teacher in Karnataka who killed 20 young women by giving them cyanide. The project was officially announced on Wednesday, and its makers confirmed it will go on the floors from January 2021. Priyamani will essay the role of the special investigation officer who probes the crucial case. The statement further added, “Getting young women to hotel rooms across Karnataka in the guise of love, giving them emergency contraceptive pills - laced with cyanide - after a night with them, and subsequently fleeing with their gold ornaments was Mohan's modus operandi.” About 20 young...