In today’s era, OTT platforms in India comes with some excellent web series and movies for the viewers. However, according to many users, most of the shows are for adults as well as too violent. Moreover, you can’t watch the web series with your children and parents. However, it’s not true. In this guide, we have highlighted the 18 best family-friendly Indian web series that you can watch with your family members and spend some quality time with them.
List of Best Family Friendly Indian Web Series
These are the top 18 Indian web series to watch with family. Have a glance
- Aspirants (2021)
- Kota Factory (2019)
- Gullak (2019)
- Bose: Dead/Alive (2017)
- The Family Man (2019)
- Panchayat (2020)
- Special OPS (2020)
- Sarabhai vs Sarabhai (2004)
- TVF Tripling (2016)
- The Forgotten Army- Azaadi Ke Liye (2020)
- Breathe (2018)
- State of Siege: 26/11 (2021)
- Made in Heaven (2019)
- Money Heist (2017)
- Adulting (2018)
- Queen (2019)
- The Great Indian Dysfunctional Family (2018)
- Yeh Meri Family (2018)
Let’s know more about these best web series to watch with family.
#1. Aspirants (2021)
Rating: 9.7/10 IMDb
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 5
Available On: TVF Play, YouTube
It’s one of the top web series to watch with family. The plot revolves around 3 friends Abhilash, Shwetketu(SK), and Guri, and their struggles to crack the UPSC exam. The web series is set in New Delhi and is one of the best web series for family.
Directed By: Apoorv Singh Karki
Written By: Deepesh Sumitra Jagdish
Cast: Naveen Kasturia, Shivankit Singh Parihar, Abhilash Thapliyal, Sunny Hinduja, Namita Dubey
#2. Kota Factory (2019)
Rating: 9.3/10 IMDb
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Season(s): 2
Episodes: 10
Available On: TVF Play, YouTube
Kota Factory is India’s first black & white web series. The web series highlights the problems faced by IIT-JEE aspirants in their daily lives. Here, we will also see father-son bonding, emotions, and many more.
Directed By: Raghav Subbu
Written By: Saurabh Khanna
Cast: Mayur More, Jitendra Kumar, Ranjan Raj, Alam Khan, Revathi Pillai
#3. Gullak (2019)
Rating: 9.2/10 IMDb
Genre: Family, Drama, Comedy
Season(s): 3
Episodes: 15
Available On: Sony LIV
Gullak is another top family friendly Indian web series we include in the list. Gullak web series is set in North India. The family web series revolves around the Mishra family. They have several dreams in their eyes but are unable to fulfill their dreams due to their poor family conditions.
Directed By: Palash Vaswani, Amrit Raj Gupta
Written By: Durgesh Singh, Shreyansh Pandey
Cast: Jameel Khan, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Vaibhav Raj Gupta, Harsh Mayar, Shivankit Singh Parihar
#4. Bose: Dead/Alive (2017)
Rating: 8.9/10 IMDb
Genre: Family, Mystery, Biography
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 9
Available On: MX Player, ALT Balaji, JioCinema
This is another best series to watch with family Hindi based on the book “India’s Biggest Cover-up”. Bose: Dead/Alive explores the mystery behind the death of the great Indian leader Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who allegedly died in a plane crash. However, there are many documents that proved that Bose might have lived much longer after the plane crash.
Directed By: Pulkit
Created By: Ekta Kapoor
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Naveen Kasturia, Edward Sonnenblick, Anna Ador, Victoria Ansell Gauvin
#5. The Family Man (2019)
Rating: 8.9/10 IMDb
Genre: Family, Action, Comedy, Drama
Season(s): 2
Episodes: 19
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
This family-friendly Indian web series starts with a working man who worked in the National Investigation Agency. He put his best efforts to save the nation from terrorist activities. On the other hand, he has to keep his family away from his secret job. The Family Man is one of the best family web series released in 2019.
Directed By: Krishna D.K., Raj Nidimoru
Written By: Krishna D.K.
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi, Ashlesha Thakur, Vedant Sinha
#6. Panchayat (2020)
Rating: 8.9/10 IMDb
Genre: Family, Drama, Comedy
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 8
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
Panchayat family web series starts with Abhishek, an engineer who joins as a secretary of a panchayat because of a lack of job opportunities. But, he faced several difficulties to adjust the village lifestyle.
Directed By: Deepak Kumar Mishra
Written By: Chandan Kumar
Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Raghuvir Yadav, Chandan Roy, Faisal Malik, Neena Gupta
#7. Special OPS (2020)
Rating: 8.8/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 8
Available On: Disney+ Hotstar
Special OPS web series revolves around a RAW officer. After investigating a number of terrorist attacks, he is convinced that there is a single mastermind behind all these terrorist activities. Special OPS was released in 2020 and is one of the best series to watch with family Hindi of all time.
Directed By: Neeraj Pandey, Shivam Nair
Written By: Benazir Ali Fida
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Karan Tacker, Gautami Kapoor, Muzamil Ibrahim, Anuj Sharma
#8.Sarabhai vs Sarabhai Take 2 (2017)
Rating: 8.9/10 IMDb
Genre: Comedy
Season(s): 2
Episodes: 79
Available On: Disney+ Hotstar
This web series for family shows the lifestyle of an upper-class Gujrathi family who lived in a luxury apartment building in South Mumbai. The family consists of four people Indravadan Sarabhai, Maya, Sahil, and Monisha Sarabhai. There’s a conflict between the family and it becomes Sarabhai vs Sarabhai.
Directed By: Deven Bhojani
Written By: Aatish Kapadia
Cast: Satish Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Sumeet Raghavan, Rupali Ganguly, Rajesh Kumar
#9. TVF Tripling (2016)
Rating: 8.6/10 IMDb
Genre: Drama
Season(s): 2
Episodes: 10
Available On: MX Player, TVF Play, YouTube ( Partly)
Three siblings Chandan, Chitvan, and Chanchal planning for a road trip and start a hilarious journey in order to find themselves and their relationship. TVF Tripling web series was released in 2016 and was one of the best family friendly Indian web series.
Directed By: Rajesh Krishnan, Sameer Saxena
Written By: Akarsh Khurana, Sumeet Vyas
Cast: Sumeet Vyas, Maanvi Gagroo, Amol Parashar, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Nidhi Bisht
#10. The Forgotten Army- Azaadi Ke Liye (2020)
Rating: 8.1/10 IMDb
Genre: History, Action, Drama
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 5
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has always been a leader in Indian history. The Forgotten Army-Azaadi ke Liye web series shows his journey to Japan where he established the Indian National Army ( INA) to fight against the British.
Directed By: Kabir Khan
Written By: Kabir Khan
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Rajvir Chauhan, Sunny Kaushal, Rohit Choudhary, Sharvari Wagh
#11. Breathe (2018)
Rating: 8.4/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 8
Available On: Prime Video
This is another best Indian web series to watch with family. Meet Kabir, a brilliant but non-conventional officer of the Crime Branch. One murder happen and one of Kabir’s closer ones became suspect. The series shows that a person can do anything to protect the person they loved.
Directed By: Mayank Sharma
Written By: Ajeet Ghorpade
Cast: Madhavan, Sapna Pabbi, Atharva Vishwakarma, Amit Sadh
#12. State of Siege: 26/11 (2021)
Rating: 8.1/10 IMDb
Genre: Action, Thriller
Available On: Disney + Hotstar
This is another best web series to watch with family. State of Siege: 26/11 web series is based on true events. It starts with NSG commandos who save innocent people when terrorist activities happen in a temple in Gujrat.
Directed By: Ken Ghosh
Written By: William Borthwick
Cast: Vivek Dahiya, Akshaye Khanna, Gautam Rode, Abhimanyu Singh, Parvin Dabas
#13. Made in Heaven (2019)
Rating: 8.3/10 IMDb
Genre: Romance, Drama
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 9
Made in Heaven web series starts with Karan and Tara- two wedding planners based in India. The web series shows the traditional arrange marriage in India and its dark side. Like, the difference between the upper and lower cast, virginity tests, and dowry transactions.
Directed By: Zoya Akhtar, Nitya Mehra
Written By: Zoya Akhtar
Cast: Shashank Arora, Arjun Mathur, Kalki Koechlin, Sobhita Dhulipala, Jim Sarbh
#14. Money Heist (2017)
Rating: 8.3/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller
Season(s): 5
Episodes: 31
Available On: Netflix
Money Heist is another best web series to watch with family. The web series was first released in the English language, and later it was dubbed into the Hindi language. A criminal called himself The Professor. He is planning a robbery. He hired eight people to help him to make his plan successful.
Directed By: Koldo Serra, Jesús Colmenar, Alex Rodrigo
Written By: Álex Pina, Javier Gómez Santander, Juan Salvador López
Cast: Jaime Lorente, Úrsula Corberó, Pedro Alonso, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño
#15. Adulting (2018)
Rating: 7.8/10 IMDb
Genre: Comedy
Season(s): 3
Episodes: 15
Available On: YouTube
Adulting is the story of two independent young women. They trying to handle their responsibilities of being independent in the urban bustle of Mumbai. This family web series shows the daily life struggle of Ray and Nikhat.
Directed By: Jessica Sadana, Divyanshu Malhotra
Written By: Ayesha Nair
Cast: Aniruddha Banerjee, Aisha Ahmed, Ronjini Chakraborty, Yashaswini Dayama, Viraj Ghelani
#16. Queen (2019)
Rating: 7.7/10 IMDb
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 11
Available On: MX Player
Queen web series is based on the biography of the late CM of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa. It’s the story of a middle-class woman who became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The entire web series reveals her journey from a simple girl to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
Directed By: Gautham Vasudev Menon, Prasath Murugesan
Written By: Reshma Ghatala
Cast: Ramya Krishnan, Viji Chandrashekhar, Vanitha Krishnachandran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Sonia Agarwal
#17. The Great Indian Dysfunctional Family (2018)
Rating: 7.3/10 IMDb
Genre: Drama
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 10
Available On: ALT Balaji
This family-friendly Indian web series starts with Vikram Ranaut’s estranged brother who returns home after 8 years with his wife. But, soon the family reunion turns into a series of heartbreaks, betrayals, and emotional breakdowns.
Directed By: Rajlaxmi Ratan Seth
Written By: Sudeep Nigam, Eisha Chopra
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Ashwin Kaushal, Barun Sobti, Eisha Chopra, Rohan Joshi
#18. Yeh Meri Family (2018)
Rating: 9.3/10 IMDb
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Season(s): 1
Episodes: 7
Available On: Amazon Prime Video
The web series starts with Harshu a 12 years old boy. He is trying to understand the dynamics of relationships in a middle-class family. In every episode, Harshu understands a particular relationship.
Directed By: Sameer Saxena
Written By: Sameer Saxena
Cast: Ruhi Khan, Vishesh Bansal, Ahan Nirban, Mona Singh, Akarsh Khurana
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Wrap Up
That’s it. Here we have listed the top 18 family-friendly Indian web series that you can watch with your parents and kids. Let us know, which is your favorite family web series.
