Best Shows of 2025 | Suchin Mehrotra | THR India

In The Hollywood Reporter India’s Best Hindi Shows of 2025, deputy editor Suchin Mehrotra celebrates a year that proved the finest Hindi-language storytelling continues to thrive on streaming platforms. From Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh’s tremendously crafted prison drama Black Warrant, featuring Zahan Kapoor’s excellent turn as a Tihar jail superintendent, to Sudip Sharma’s stunning sophomore season of Paatal Lok with Jaideep Ahlawat delivering one of the great performances as the tragic Hathi Ram Chaudhary. Writer-director Pushkar Sunil Mahabal’s dazzlingly inventive true-crime thriller Black White And Gray earns praise as one of the coolest and most distinctive Indian shows Suchin has ever watched.

The list also spotlights creator Smita Singh’s singular supernatural series Khauf, where Monica Panwar navigates the bone-chilling horrors of being a woman in Delhi—proving that nothing is scarier than real life. Rounding out the picks is the achingly sincere Real Kashmir Football Club, starring Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub and Manav Kaul as two men building Kashmir’s first professional football club from nothing. Special mentions go to Nagesh Kukunoor’s The Hunt for its brave finale, Netflix’s Bads Of Bollywood for its comedy gold, and Maharani Season 4 for remaining deliciously watchable after four seasons. These shows represent the ambitious, boundary-pushing storytelling that Indian streaming was always meant to champion.