Even though only four months have passed this year, OTT platforms are already packed with top-notch content. From January to April 9, 2025, several standout series have made waves with audiences and critics alike. Based on IMDb ratings, we’ve rounded up five of the most popular Hindi web series you can easily stream right now.
IMDb’s Top Hindi Web Series 2025
Black Warrant (IMDb Rating: 8/10) Netflix
Vikramaditya Motwane's adaptation of the novel ‘Black Warrant’ has emerged as one of the most compelling Hindi web series of 2025. Based on a jailer's firsthand account of Tihar Jail's notorious operations during the 1980s, the series explores the complex power dynamics and hierarchical structures shaped by caste and religion.
Zahan Kapoor delivers a nuanced performance as Sunil Gupta, portraying the character's evolution from a timid newcomer to a determined reformer who eventually establishes Tihar's first legal aid cell. The series features memorable encounters with infamous prisoners, including the charismatic Charles Sobhraj brought to life by Siddhant Gupta.
Paatal Lok Season 2 (IMDb Rating: 8.2/10) Amazon Prime Video
The highly anticipated second season of ‘Paatal Lok’ has returned with a complex narrative centred around peace negotiations between Naga separatist leaders and Indian government officials, mediated by an influential businessman. This groundbreaking storyline marks one of the first prominent representations of Nagaland and its people in Indian cinema.
The eight-episode season continues to follow Delhi Police inspector Hathi Ram Chaudhary, portrayed by Jaideep Ahlawat, as he navigates the darker aspects of human existence. Setting itself against a backdrop of fragile political negotiations.
Dabba Cartel (IMDb Rating: 7.1/10) Netflix
‘Dabba Cartel’ presents an innovative premise where five women from diverse backgrounds unite to build a drug empire following a major pharmaceutical scandal. When VivaLife Pharmaceuticals, a dominant player in India's pharmaceutical industry, faces repercussions for an unregulated opioid controversy involving the Federal Drug Standard Control Organisation (FDSCO), these women seize an unexpected opportunity.
The unlikely alliance includes domestic worker Mala and chef Raji, who initially run a modest tiffin (dabba) business together, alongside Sheila, who brings connections to the drug cartel world; former VivaLife CFO Varina; and broker Shahida.
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CID Season 2 (SonyLIV)
After a six-year hiatus, the iconic crime investigation show ‘CID’ has made a return, first on Sony TV and SonyLIV in December 2024, and now as ‘CID Season 2.0’ on Netflix. The series has quickly risen to become one of the platform's top trending shows in India since its February 21, 2025 debut, with the first 18 episodes released simultaneously and new installments scheduled to drop every weekend.
Dupahiya (IMDb Rating: 7.5/10) Amazon Prime
‘Dupahiya’ offers a refreshing slice-of-life narrative that begins with a marriage proposal and a dowry demand for a Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle. While the money is arranged and the motorcycle acquired, its subsequent theft from Dhadakpur, a village desperate to maintain its crime-free reputation to secure funding for a clean water project.
The series weaves together the fates of numerous characters: a police officer reduced to solving fictional crimes, an aspiring journalist who manages the village WhatsApp group, a female Panchayat member with political ambitions, a family including an internet fame-seeker (Bhugol Jha played by Sparsh Srivastava), various romantic entanglements led by the character Amavas (portrayed by Bhuvan Arora), and an entire community frustrated by the muddy water from their pumps.
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