Some shows arrive with huge hype, while others quietly surprise you once you start watching. These recent series across Netflix, Prime Video, JioHotstar and more turned out to be far more engaging than expected, thanks to strong stories, memorable characters and fresh ideas.
12 Best Recent Underrated Web Shows
1. Shaque: Trust No One (Netflix)
Nine years after her newborn daughter vanished from a hospital, a mother is still unable to move on without answers. Her search suddenly gets new life when photographs appear to suggest that the missing girl may still be alive. What follows is an emotional mystery that also makes her question whether people closest to her have been hiding something.
2. Operation Safed Sagar (Netflix)
Young fighter pilots from the Golden Arrows Squadron are sent into a dangerous high-altitude mission during the 1999 Kargil War. Instead of focusing only on combat, the series also looks at the fear, pressure and responsibility carried by the men taking part in the operation. Siddharth, Jimmy Shergill and Abhay Verma lead this emotional military drama about courage and sacrifice.
3. Pritam and Pedro (JioHotstar)
A traditional police officer and a young hacker are forced to work together after the chief minister’s son becomes the victim of a digital kidnapping. Their opposite personalities lead to constant disagreements, but cracking the case requires both old-school investigation and modern technology. The combination of cybercrime, mystery and buddy humour gives the series a fun and different feel.
4. Chumbak (Netflix)
Five families living close together in an old Mumbai row-house repeatedly find themselves pulled into one another’s problems. Marriage, parenting, ageing and everyday disagreements create both funny situations and emotional moments across the neighbourhood. The series gradually turns these separate homes into a warm community that begins to feel like one extended family.
5. Raakh (Prime Video)
A young police officer enters a horrifying kidnapping investigation that brings him face to face with two extremely dangerous criminals. As the case grows darker, the violence he encounters begins testing both his courage and his idea of justice. What starts as a police hunt becomes an emotionally heavy crime story about confronting the worst sides of human behaviour.
6. Kohrra Season 2 (Netflix)
A woman’s murder in Dalerpura brings ASI Amarpal Garundi and Dhanwant Kaur together for a case surrounded by damaged relationships and hidden pain. While questioning suspects, both officers find their own unresolved emotions affecting how they understand the people involved. Season 2 works as much through grief and family wounds as it does through the central murder mystery.
7. Chiraiya (JioHotstar)
Kamlesh is forced to make a difficult choice after learning that her sister-in-law is facing abuse in her marriage. Staying quiet could protect the family’s reputation, but speaking up may be the only way to help someone trapped in an unjust situation. The drama becomes a powerful look at patriarchy, family pressure and the courage needed to challenge wrongdoing at home.
8. Taskaree: The Smuggler’s Web (Netflix)
A Mumbai Customs officer leads a special team trying to break an international smuggling network operating through airports and secret routes. Every operation uncovers new players, powerful links and criminals willing to take major risks to protect their business. The unusual Customs setting helps this investigative thriller feel different from a regular police drama.
9. Adarsh Baal Vidyalaya (Prime Video)
Gyaneshwar Tripathi sees improving his struggling government school as a possible route to a Cambridge training programme. But changing the school means dealing with poor facilities, difficult students, worried parents and a staff that brings its own complications. What begins as a personal goal slowly becomes a funny and hopeful attempt to give the neglected school a fresh direction.
10. Made in India: A Titan Story (Amazon MX Player)
At a time when imported and smuggled watches dominate the market, Tata executive Xerxes Desai decides India should build a world-class watch brand of its own. Supported by J.R.D. Tata, he and his team face doubt, business risks and repeated setbacks while trying to make the idea succeed. Titan’s early journey becomes an engaging story about persistence, ambition and believing in an unlikely plan.
11. His & Hers (Netflix)
A journalist returns to her hometown after a murder and begins looking into the case, putting her directly at odds with the detective investigating it. Their versions of events do not always match, and both appear to be holding back important information. The shifting perspectives make the mystery more intriguing as it becomes harder to decide whose account can actually be trusted.
12. Matka King (Prime Video)
An ordinary man in old Bombay enters the gambling world and gradually builds a powerful empire around it. His success brings money and influence, but it also attracts greed, dangerous rivals and personal problems that threaten everything he has created. The series turns his rise into an absorbing crime drama about ambition and the price of power.
From crime mysteries and military drama to family stories and workplace comedy, these shows proved that some of the best watches can come from the least expected places.