2020 wrap: Year of crime and criminals in Indian OTT space
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Tue, Dec 29 2020 9:36 IST |
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New Delhi, Dec 29 : From real-life tales to stories rooted in fiction, this was the year of crime in the OTT space, as the genre emerged the clear big winner. Murder mysteries, underworld sagas, and terrorism were popular themes as always, but there were a few new entrants in the world of on-screen crime, too, with the likes of phishing and securities scam becoming central to the plot in hit web shows.
The fact that crime has been the clear winner this year in the Indian OTT race is evident from the IMDB top 10 list of Indian web series of 2020, based on ratings. Eight out of the 10 are crime-themes shows, led by Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story right at the top. The only two non-crime shows in the list are Panchayat, a satire, at the second spot, and Bandish Bandits, a romantic musical at number four. Th
Actors who shone on OTT in 2020
Actors who shone on OTT in 2020
The year that is about to end will go down in the history as one that reorganised entertainment as never before in our lifetime. With cinema theatres shut down owing to the pandemic, home entertainment became important, and with television in India having crossed its saturation point long ago, digital was the way to go.
OTT brought its own storytelling culture and, in turn, a new set of actors who would fit into such stories.
Not surprising, screen heroes have been wholly different this year. This has been the year of Pratik Gandhi s Harshad Mehta and Abhishek Banerjee s Hathoda Tyagi. It is a year that will go down as one when Pankaj Tripathi s menacing Kaleen bhaiya became a pop icon of sorts, and Sushmita Sen as Aarya Sareen gave crime a wonky twist as never before.
2020 wrap: Actors who shone on OTT
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Sushmita Sen teases powerful comeback with Arya .. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Dec 22 : The year that is about to end will go down in the history as one that reorganised entertainment as never before in our lifetime. With cinema theatres shut down owing to the pandemic, home entertainment became important, and with television in India having crossed its saturation point long ago, digital was the way to go.
OTT brought its own storytelling culture and, in turn, a new set of actors who would fit into such stories.
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Year Ender 2020: Pratik Gandhi, Pankaj Tripathi, the undisputed stars of OTT
The year that is about to end will go down in the history as one that reorganized entertainment as never before in our lifetime. With cinema theatres shut down owing to the pandemic, home entertainment became important, and with television in India having crossed its saturation point long ago, digital was the way to go.
OTT brought its own storytelling culture and, in turn, a new set of actors who would fit into such stories.
Not surprising, screen heroes have been wholly different this year. This has been the year of Pratik Gandhi s Harshad Mehta and Abhishek Banerjee s Hathoda Tyagi. It is a year that will go down as one when Pankaj Tripathi s menacing Kaleen bhaiya became a pop icon of sorts, and Sushmita Sen as Aarya Sareen gave crime a wonky twist as never before.