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Movies And Web Series That Created A Lot Of Hype This Year

- By Our Correspond­ent

020 hasn’t been the best year. Art and artists came to our rescue and helped many of us sail through some tough times. Cooped up inside our homes, many of us resorted to OTT streaming platforms and we were presented with a lavish treat. With big screens shut, many big movies had web-releases. Parallely, this year belonged to some great web-series that kept us thoroughly entertaine­d. Now that we are in the last leg of this year, we decided to handpick some of the most hyped web series and movies and reflect on how it actually fared post release. Scroll!

Where To Watch: Amazon Prime is an Indian Hindi-language crime thriller web television series which premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 15 May 2020. It is produced by Clean Slate Filmz, and stars Jaideep Ahlawat, Gul Panag, Neeraj Kabi, Swastika Mukherjee, Ishwak Singh, and Abhishek Banerjee. The teaser was released on 27 April while the of an assassinat­ion attempt gone wrong. The HuffPost India and The Indian Express ranked Paatal Lok as the best Hindi Film/Series of 2020. Loosely based on Tarun Tejpal's novel, this show revolves around a cop Hathiram Chaudhary who is made in charge of an assassinat­ion gone wrong case. In his quest to get to the bottom of it, he discovers some dark secrets.

Verdict: This Anushka Sharma production kickstarte­d a new trend of phenomenal story-telling and casting talented actors over known faces. Jaideep Ahlawat who played the lead shot to much-deserved fame and received rave reviews for his fabulous performanc­e from fans and critics alike. the newness that it had to offer.

Where to watch: Amazon Prime A classic tale of war between a landlord and his tenant who refuses to vacate the house despite several notices from the former, this

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