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As 2024 came close to last month, many publishing – it included one – came with its list of the best Indian web series of the year. And when the list was slightly different in his ranking, one thing was common – inclusion of shows like power. A story about a real phenomenon in modern Indian history, the story has been lost in small columns of newspapers over years. Because, unlike the biopics of PM and cricket stars, these stories were unheard, untold, and forgot until some streaming platforms and manufacturers brought them back.
2025 has launched on the same note with Vikramaditya Motwen’s black warrant. During the gas leaks and forest officials in Kerala, from a jailer in Tihar to a station master in Bhopal, the Indian web series is looking for its heroes at places where the Indian has ever gone before telling the story. The manufacturers credited the OTT boom in India for this.
OTT allows a sense of reality
Earlier, films based on real stories have been made in India. But there used to be a warning – names would be changed, stories will turn, and some songs and dance routines will be added. In addition, most of the real-life-based stories were about the episode of Indian history, which people already knew-this 26/11 attack, 1993’s Bombay Blast, or Forests in Lokhandwala. There was a very small 26 types of story slip through a very rare crack, but again, it was a heavy imaginary. The OTT changed by allowing more reality.
Hansal Mehta has told the real stories in the franchise of Netflix’s scoop and Soniliv scam. Filmmaker says, “The story and character on the OTT is a different skill set in plotting arcs. Each medium has its own advantages and its challenges. The scam in 1992, there was so much material that we had to let go and leave far behind. After all, you decide to follow a particular journey, a particular path. ,
Confrontation with imagination makes reality for good entertainment
Creators say that these unheard stories allow them to be creative, but without disturbing the reality of what happened. Since stories are largely unheard of, a minor twicex is ignored. Tanuj Chopra directed the second season of the Delhi crime, describing the manhunt behind the Copycat Kaccha Banian Dhari robbers. He says, “The way you have put a true crime story together, you merge the events of real crime. Therefore, everything in this story has happened at some level. There is a version of this story that has happened. This is not about telling a unique story, but about being inspired by the events of true crime and fusing them together. ,
However, filmmakers say that these stories usually have so much drama that the need to make additional plays is minimal. The demand for OTT medium for realism also helps. Richie Mehta, the manufacturer of the predators of Amazon Prime Video, says, “I make a show in combination with real people. I talk to them through everything, and I do not move forward without their permission. I never extract the dramatic high points beyond reality. I will not make a new dramatic high that has not actually happened anywhere in the series. The only thing I do, sometimes mix some characters in one or take backstory from one character to another. ,
Fresh, platform on lookout for real stories
Streaming platforms admit that they are now looking for such stories, provided they are fresh. “Every story we tell that we need to be a fresh idea,” Tanya Bami, Series Head, Netflix India says, “We are always looking for that fresh tech, innovative voice, or manufacturer Tells a story with it, it is about finding stories that will spread some deeply in the imagination of the audience so that they are eager and interested in the eyes, a sympathy jailer who tried to improve. Has been
But are the platforms intentionally choosing these slightly more unknown stories? “Why choose when there is space for both Netflix and audience?
Some still go carefully
Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai, which was streamful on the Zee5 last year, focused on the lawyer who sued the convicted rapist and self-proclaimed Godman Asram Bapu. The film named the lawyer – PC Solanki – the same but replaced others. Verma of the film’s creative producer, Supern’s Verma says, “Legally, we are in a place where we can only do so, so we say that inspired. We had the right to use Solanki’s name, so we did. For others, we did not have the right. ,
Nevertheless, the creators say that these stories should be above moral policing and decisions. In black warrant, Vikramaditya Motavne dealt with the difficult task of portraying serial killer Charles Sobraj and the killers Bill-Rang. Some were ranked by the ‘human’ depiction of criminals. “I don’t think it is our job to pass a decision as creators,” says Motwen. It is something that we leave for the audience, if at all. “This is how it is. The story and character everything is. It is prominent.
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