10 best Indian crime series On Netflix, Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Voot and ZEE 5 to watch right now (2024)

While everyone is hooked to Money Heist or Breaking Bad right now, can we take a moment to appreciate some of the most badass crime series produced in India? Be it suspense, gut-wrenching murders, crimes that send chills down your spine, these Indian web series have it all. What they probably don’t have is your attention. So, we bring to you some of the best Indian crime series on Netflix, Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Voot Select and Zee5,that you can stream online right now.

Here are 10 best Indian crime series On Netflix, Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Voot and ZEE 5 you can stream right now

1. Hostages – Hotstar

Directed by Sudhir Mishra, this crime thriller web series revolves around a surgeon, whose family is taken hostage a night before she was supposed to a operate on the chief minister. The person whose job is to save lives is now ordered to assassinate her patient for her family’s safety. This series is a remake of an Israeli TV series, and features Tisca Chopra, Ronit Roy, and Parvin Dabas.

2. Breathe – Amazon Prime Video

How far can a father go in order to save his son’s life? R. Madhavan and Amit Sadh engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse, when Madhavan takes things in his own hands to help his ailing son who is in dire need of organ transplant.

3. Delhi Crime – Netflix

Starring Shefali Shah, Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain and Rajesh Tailang; this crime web series is based on the Delhi gang rape that took place in 2012. The series narrates what happened in the aftermath of the gang rape and how Deputy Commissioner of Police, played by Shefali Shah, along with her team investigate the case and found the culprits responsible behind this heinous crime.

4. Criminal Justice – Hotstar

Sex, drugs and a gruesome murder weaves this crime drama that is said to be based on a British drama of the same name. Starring Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi, Jackie Shroff, Anupriya Goenka and Mita Vashisht, this series is about a cab driver who experiences his worst nightmare when he picks up a passenger and she’s found dead later. All the evidences point towards him, but he doesn’t remember committing the crime. Will he be able to prove his innocence or is he really guilty of committing that murder?

5. Sacred Games – Netflix

You must have probably already watched and re-watched both the seasons of this show by now. But, there’s no harm in watching it again.” Starring stalwarts like Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Saif Ali Khan, Pankaj Tripathi, Kubra Sait, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Kalki Koechlin and more; this crime thriller revolves around an honest cop who runs against time to decode the cryptic warnings of a crime lord and his apocalyptic plans.

6. Mirzapur – Netflix

Starring Ali Fazal, Pankaj Tripathi, Vikrant Massey, Shweta Tripathi, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rasika Dugal, Divyendu Sharma and Kulbhushan Kharbanda; this series revolves around drugs, guns and lawlessness, and rule of mafia dons that prevail in Mirzapur.

7. Jamtara: Sabka Number Ayega – Netflix

Two young men, Sunny and Rocky run a lucrative phishing scam in Jamtara. Things were going smooth for them as they continued to dupe people, until a corrupt politician and a cop got involved with them. Directed by Soumendra Padhi, this crime drama features Amit Sial, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Aksha Pardasany and Sparsh Shrivastav among others.

8. Rangbaaz – Zee5

Based on a true story, this crime series narrates the story of a notorious gangster of Gorakhpur. How a 25-year-old boy gets involved with powerful politicians, commits crimes and becomes one of the deadliest gangsters of UP in the 1990s, is the main premise of this crime thriller series. It stars Saqib Saleem, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Ranvir Shorey, Aahana Kamra, and Ravi Kishan.

9. Asur Welcome To Your Dark Side – Voot Select

Starring Arshad Warsi and TV actor Barun Sobti, this series that pits two conflicting worlds against each other – one, which is led by forensic science and the other than revolves around Indian Mythology. Set in the backdrop of Varanasi, a forensic expert finds himself entangled with a serial killer. However, solving the murders won’t be easy as mythology and suspense hovers over the investigation.

10. Abhay – Zee5

Inspired by true events, this crime thriller is about Abhay Pratap Singh (played by Kunal Kemmu), who investigates crimes using the mind of a criminal, which takes him to extreme lengths to solve gruesome cases. On one hand where he tries to catch criminals, he also has to deal with his inner demons. The series also features Deepak Tijori, Elnaaz Norouzi, Rituraj Singh and Sandeepa Dhar.

Here are 10 best Indian crime series On Netflix, Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Voot and Zee 5