Movie/Web series Recommendations by Palavians

Thanks to the Palavians for recommending Movie/Web series for binge watching during this 21 lockdown.

We have asked a facebook post about some recommendations by Palavians for any good Netflix/Prime webseries. Here are the recommendations given by them.

Recommended by Palavian Mohua Basak 

The Doctors

The Doctors is a 2016 South Korean medical drama starring Kim Rae-won and Park Shin-hye. It aired every Monday and Tuesday at 22:00 (KST) on SBS from June 20 to August 23, 2016 for 20 episodes.
The drama was a hit and averaged 18.40% in audience ratings. In particular, Park’s character as a troubled teenager turned charismatic doctor was very popular among the audiences for her action scenes and straightforward lines.
Genre: Medical, Romantic
Playing on: Netflix

Love O2O

Love O2O  is a 2016 Chinese television series based on the novel of the same name written by Gu Man, starring Zheng Shuang and Yang Yang.
The drama is a commercial success in China. It is one of the most watched Chinese modern dramas, with over 25 billion views online.
A must watch if you like to see romantic series.
Genre: Romantic
Available: Netflix
Released: 2016

Meteor Garden

Meteor Garden is a 2018 Chinese television series starring Shen Yue, Dylan Wang, Darren Chen, Caesar Wu, and Connor Leong.
The story centers around an ordinary girl, Dong Shan Cai (Shen Yue), who is accepted into the most prestigious university in the country, Ming De University. Shan Cai is a girl from a family that barely makes ends meet. The story moves from College fights turn into college Romance, a must watch for people who love drama of college romance and inspired by stories of poor falling in love with rich
Genre: College Romcom
Available: Netflix
Released: 2018

Lock & Key

Locke & Key is an American supernatural horror drama web television series developed by Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill, and Aron Eli Coleite, based on the comic book series of the same name by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez. After Rendell Locke is murdered, his wife Nina along with her three children Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode move to Rendell’s family home, Keyhouse.
The children discover a number of mysterious keys throughout the house that can be used to unlock various doors in magical ways.
Genres: Supernatural horror, Drama
Playing: Netflix
Released: 2020

Recommended by Palavian Tushar Phirke 

The punisher

After exacting revenge on the people responsible for the deaths of his wife and children, Frank Castle uncovers a conspiracy that runs deeper than New York’s criminal underworld. Now known as the Punisher, he must dig deep into the conspiracy to discover the truth about injustices that affect more than just him and his family. Assisting the vigilante in his quest to fight criminals are best friend Billy Russo, who runs private military corporation Anvil, and former NSA analyst Micro, who shares common enemies with Castle and helps him as part of a so-called marriage of convenience.
Genre: Conspiracy Thriller
Released: 17 November 2017
Available: Netflix

Special Ops

Special Ops (stylized as SPECIAL OPS) is an Indian espionage thriller series created by Neeraj Pandey for Hotstar’s label Hotstar Specials with Kay Kay Menon leading the cast. Pandey along with Shivam Nair directed the series with Pandey’s Friday Storytellers attached as production house which premiered on 17 March 2020.^[5]
The series follows Himmat Singh (Menon) of Research and Analysis Wing who draws similar patterns in terrorist attacks and is convinced a single person is behind all the attacks. His task force team of five agents living in various parts of the world aim to catch the mastermind.^[6] The story is inspired by several espionage missions undertaken by India in the last two decades.^[7]
Available: Hotstar
Released: 17 March, 2020
Genre: Crime, Espionage, Thriller

Recommended by Palavian Neha Maliwal Kabra 

Choricha Mamla (Marathi)

Nandan robs houses for a living but never takes more than what he needs. One day while on the job, the house`s owner, Amarjit, enters with Shraddha, a girl he is having an affair with. Amarjit is about to call the police when his wife arrives. Desperate, he asks Nandan to pretend to be with Shraddha so his wife doesn`t get suspicious. The ruse gets harder to keep up, leading to a comedy of errors.
Genres: Comedy
Released: 2020
Available: Amazon Prime

Half ticket

Half Ticket is a story of two adventurous brothers staying in Mumbai slums. How they try to reach their dream that is virtually impossible and is as simple as buying a slice of gourmet pizza from a leading pizza chain! But underneath it are layers of narratives that just show you the plain simple image of the society. 
Genres: Comedy
Released: 2016
Available: Amazon Prime

Recommended by Palavian Amruta Palekar Nerurkar 

Asur

A unique crime thriller that pits two opposing worlds against each other. The less explored, intricate world of forensic science and the deep mysticism of ancient Indian Mythology.
Genre: Thriller
Released: 2020
Available: Voot

Suits

Suits is set at a fictional New York City law firm and follows talented college dropout Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), who starts working as a law associate for Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) despite never having attended law school. The show focuses on Harvey and Mike closing cases, while maintaining Mike’s secret.
Genre: Legal drama
Released: 23 June 2011
Available: Netflix

Guilty

Almost a year later, in 2018 during the peak of the #MeToo movement, Tanu accuses VJ of raping her as his friends watched on, via a tell-all tweet. This leads to a media trial and a social media storm. The college students are divided: some judge Tanu for being an attention seeker and want to believe VJ is innocent, while some students stand by Tanu and nudge her on to fight the case. VJ’s parents — powerful politicians and socialites played by Niki Walia and Manu Rishi — in a bid to control the matter, bribe her on the night of the incident and successfully stop her from filing a police complaint. When she tweets about it a year later, they file a defamation case against her.
Genre: Drama Thriller
Released: 2020
Available: Netflix

Test Case

Its an Alt Balaji Production and available on Zee5, shows the power of Woman. Watch the Protagonist Captain Shikha Sharma (Nimrat Kaur) the only woman in a group of Indian Army officers training to join the Special forces. She is also the first woman to be undertaking the course making her a “test case” for inducting women into combat oriented roles in the Indian army. The storyline revolves around her journey of overcoming challenges at home to biases by her colleagues despite being an intelligent and a highly motivated individual on Zee5.
Genre: Drama Action
Released: 2020
Available: Zee5

Recommendation by Palavian Ankita Puneet Narang 

Criminal justice

A turning and twisting murder thriller where a young man Aditya (Vikrant Massey) in his cab picks up a passenger Sanaya (Madhurima Roy ). which ended up as a one-night stand, and he wakes up to find Sanaya murdered.
He finds himself in a pool of her blood, and her with multiple stab wounds. He runs from the crime scene, but, he meets with an accident and is taken to the police station.
Genre: Crime Thriller
Released: 2019
Available: Hotstar

Recommendations by Palavian Geetanjali Bhardwaj 

SHE

She is an Indian crime drama web television series created and written by Imtiaz Ali & author Divya Johry. Directed by Arif Ali and Avinash Das under production house Window Seat Films, the series stars Aaditi Pohankar, Vijay Varma and Vishwas Kini. It follows the story of a female constable who goes undercover to bust an underworld gang.
She follows the story of a female constable in the Indian Police Force who has been inducted in the Anti Narcotics Group to fight a major drug lord.
Genre: Crime Thriller
Released: 2020
Available: Netflix

Recommendation by Palavian Gowri Venkatesh 

Contagion

The plot concerns the spread of a virus transmitted by fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. 
Returning from a business trip in Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff has a layover in Chicago and meets a former lover for sex. Two days later, in her family home in suburban Minneapolis, she collapses with seizures. Her husband, Mitch Emhoff, rushes her to the hospital, but she dies of an unknown cause. Mitch returns home and finds that his stepson Clark has also died. Mitch is put in isolation but is later found to be immune; he returns home to his teenage daughter Jory.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2011
Available: Amazon Prime

Panga

Rooted in the subculture of societal facts, Panga is an emotional roller coaster tale of a middle-class Indian woman, where a forgotten Kabaddi world champion catalyzes an inner desire to give a new meaning to her existing role as a wife and mother and takes an ingenious decision to come back to the sport despite the challenges of age stereotypes and new generation complexities which creates an upheaval in her life as she is torn between societal pressures of family responsibility and love for the sport.
Genre: Drama, Sports
Released: Jan 2020
Available: Hotstar

Recommended by Palavian Deepak Sharma 

Hunters

Amazon Original series is inspired by true events, HUNTERS follows a diverse band of Nazi Hunters in 1977 New York City who discover that hundreds of escaped Nazis are living in America. And so, they do what any bad-ass vigilante squad would do: they set out on a bloody quest for revenge and justice. But they soon discover a far-reaching conspiracy and must race against time to thwart the Nazis’ new genocidal plans.
Genre: Drama, Suspense, Action
Released: 2020
Available: Amazon Prime

Recommended by Palavian Shweta Albal Gadagin 

Mako mermaids

A camping trip to mysterious Mako Island turns out to be much more than that for outdoorsy teen Zac. Unknown to him, the island is actually the domain of a pod of mermaids, three of whom — Sirena, Nixie and Lyla — should be guarding the Moon Pool. But they neglect their duties, and Zac falls in. The waters of the pool endow Zac with special powers, allowing him to transform into a merman when he comes into contact with water and forcing the mermaid pod to leave the waters around the island. Not all of them leave, however; the three transgressors are cast out of the pod and left behind. To rejoin their community, the girls must somehow travel on land and retrieve Zac’s new powers. If they fail, they’ll remain outcasts forever. Zac enjoys his newfound abilities, and the girls are sympathetic. What’s a mermaid to do?
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Children’s
Released: 26 July 2013
Available: Netflix

Recommened by Palavian Varsha Rajmane 

Jane the virgin

the series details the surprising and dramatic events that take place in the life of Jane Gloriana Villanueva, a hard-working, religious, young, Venezuelan-American woman. Jane’s vow to save her virginity until marriage becomes complicated when a doctor mistakenly artificially inseminates her during a checkup. To make matters worse, the biological father is a married man, a former playboy, and a cancer survivor who is not only the new owner of the hotel where Jane works, but was also her former teenage crush. Watch the series to see the compedy unfolds with Drama and humor
Genre: Dramedy Romantic comedy Telenovela Satire
Released: October 2014
Available: Netflix

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