Paatal Lok (Seasons 1–2)

Paatal Lok (2020) is an Indian crime series from Amazon Prime you can watch online on iFILM. Hathiram Chaudhary, a burnt-out Delhi inspector going nowhere fast, finally lands a career-making case: four suspects arrested over the attempted murder of a famous TV journalist.

What looks like an open-and-shut arrest unravels quickly. The deeper Hathiram digs, the less anything fits — the plot ties together money, politics and the buried histories of all four suspects, among them a lower-caste boy, a trans woman and a hitman from the sticks. The title points to Paatal Lok, the underworld of Hindu cosmology, a hell with no exit. Delhi's slums and its halls of power turn out to be two floors of the same pit.

Produced by Anushka Sharma's Clean Slate Filmz and loosely drawn from Tarun Tejpal's novel, the show rests on Jaideep Ahlawat's quietly devastating lead — one of the standout performances on recent Indian TV. It's grim, slow-burning and a long way from Bollywood gloss, with sharp things to say about caste, faith and a rotting press. Stream every episode of Paatal Lok (2020) online on iFILM.