Reputed digital platform Disney Plus Hotstar is making sure to pump in wide variety of web shows, films and entertainment shows to entertain its subscribers. Apart from having a wide variety of web shows and films, the digital platform is making web series’ in Hindi and all South languages with Disney Plus Hotstar Specials label for the past few years. As the year 2022 is just wrapped up, we bring you the list of the Top 10 Best Malayalam Web series To Watch on Hotstar.
Escaype Live is Indian Hindi-language premiered on Disney Plus Hotstar in May 2022. Created and directed by Siddharth Kumar Tewary, the show was written by Jaya Misra and Siddharth Kumar Tewary. The show features Siddharth, Jaaved Jaaferi, Shweta Tripathi, Sumedh Mudgalkar, Waluscha De Sousa, Plabita Borthakur and Ritvik Sahore in key roles.
This nine-episode series revolves around the different journeys of six regular Indians as they struggle to win fame and fortune on a social-media app called Escaype Live. The show is available on the streaming platform in all South languages in dubbed version along with Hindi. The show is having 7.5/10 rating on IMDB.
Chandra Nandhini is a historical saga of the first king of united India, Chandragupta Maurya. How Chankya helps the king and guide him throughout, forms the crucial crux of Chandra Nandini. The show has two hundred eighty six episodes in total. The IMDB rating for Chandra Nandhini is 7/10. Chandra Nandhini is available online on Disney Plus Hotstar in Malayalam dubbed version as well.
This Indian Hindi-language legal drama web series directed by Rohan Sippy. Starring Pankaj Tripathi, Shweta Basu Prasad, Purab Kohli and Swastika Mukherjee in prominent roles, the series revolves around the murder case of a teenage celebrity. The show is premiered on the OTT platform in August 2022 and is the third installment in Hotstar Specials’ anthology courtroom drama, Criminal Justice. Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach has eight episodes in total and available in the dubbed version of all South languages including Malayalam . This crime series is having 7.8/10 rating on IMDB.
Dahan: Raakan Ka Rahasya starring Saurabh Shukla, Ankur Nayyar, Happy Ranajit, Rajesh Tailang in key roles revolves around a disgraced IAS Officer who sets out to vindicate herself and take up a strange case in Shilaspura, a land with occult practices. Touted as a mysterious thriller, Dahan: Raakan Ka Rahasya is available online on Disney Plus Hotstar in Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada versions. The show is premiered on the streaming platform in 2022 and has 7.1/10 rating on IMDB.
This Indian Hindi-language action thriller television series created by Samar Khan. Directed by Kanishka Varma, the show features Regina Cassandra, Armaan Ralhan, Manish Chaudhari, Aadil Khan, Makarand Deshpande, Shivya Pathania and Arif Zakaria in the lead roles. The Malayalam dubbed version of the show is available on the streaming platform. The series is premiered in July 2022 on Disney Plus Hotstar. The show is having 7.1/10 rating on IMDB.
Starring Aftab Shivdasani, Gautami Kapoor, Aadil Khan, Kay Kay Menon, Vinay Pathak in key roles, Special ops 1.5 was created by Neeraj Pandey and Benazir Ali Fida. This intense crime thriller series has four episodes in total. The show is having 8.3/10 rating on IMDB. Special ops 1.5 deals with some real incidents which happened in our country a few decades back. The show is available online the streaming platform in Malayalam version as well.
Set in Bhopal, Human revolves around Ashok Vaidya who starts SR 93 drug trial on humans in a hospital. SR 93 drug was banned in Europe but still, Ashok Vaidya starts his trials on humans. Created by Ishani Banerjee and Darshan Prakash, the show was directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and Mozez Singh.
Starring Riddhi Kumar, Shefali Shah, Vishal Jethwa, Kirti Kulhari, Ram Kapoor in key roles, this thriller drama series has ten episodes in total. The show has 8.1/10 rating on IMDB. The show is available in Malayalam version as well.
Ghar Waapsi is an Indian Hindi-language family drama television series created by Dice Media and directed by Ruchir Arun. Starring Vishal Vashishtha, Atul Shrivastava, Vibha Chibber, Anushka Kaushik, Saad Bilgrami, Ajitesh Gupta andGyanendra Tripathi in key roles, Ghar Waapsi is a comedy-coated family drama series and it’s dubbed version in Malayalam is also available on the streaming platform Disney Plus Hotstar. The show is having six episodes in total. The IMDB rating for Ghar Waapsi is 8.8/10.
Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors is an Indian Hindi-language legal drama web series streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar with Hotstar Specials label. Written by Apurva Asrani and directed by Rohan Sippy and Arjun Mukerjee, the series stars Pankaj Tripathi, Kirti Kulhari, Jisshu Sengupta and Khushboo Atre in key roles. Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors is premiered on Disney Plus Hotstar in December 2020 in the dubbed version in South languages . The show is having eight episodes with IMDB rating of 7.4/10.
This Indian series created by Nagesh Kukunoor is available online on Hotstar on its new label Hotstar Specials. Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, the series has Atul Kulkarni, Priya Bapat, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Eijaz Khan ,Siddharth Chandekar and Adinath Kothare in key roles. Music is composed my Tapas Relia, City of Dreams is a political drama and explores power politics in family. The show is two seasons with twenty episodes. City of Dreams is having 7.7/10 rating on IMDB. The show is available online on the streaming platform in Malayalam version as well.
