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India is full of spiritual ethos. The more you travel to the sacred, the love for the spiritual world will turn eternal. Probe deep into India, and you will find the land more than a physical territory, a land that gives you access to God. The spiritual places in India are as diverse as the country’s different religions.

This diverse country is a spiritual land that offers everything for individuals seeking awareness and knowledge. India is home to many holy places that gives individuals a blissful experience. Here’s a list of places in India to experience God and Devotion.

Haridwar

Haridwar is a holy pilgrimage site located in Uttrakhand. Many of the locals believe that you get access to God from this place. It’s settled at the foothills of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand. Haridwar is the place of origination of the river Ganges. Every evening locals and tourists light lamps and set them floating down the river as prayers.

Varanasi

An ancient city with old history and spiritualism within the state of Uttar Pradesh. The town of Lord Shiva. In the evening, people take a walk along the riverbanks known as Ghats. The city glows with the light of spirit. During, winter riverbanks are full of small lamps, and people take a holy bath.

Bodhgaya

Bodhgaya is a famous Buddhist pilgrimage located in Bihar. Lord Budha became enlightened here under a Bodhi tree. It is now the site of a famous Mahabodhi temple complex. The town is a house to more than dozens of Buddhist monasteries. The temple is also a UNESCO world heritage site, and much of it is rebuilt and restored over decades.

Amritsar Golden Temple

Amritsar is the spiritual capital of the Sikhs. The center of attraction in Amritsar is the Golden Temple. The temple looks mesmerizing at night, and people visit at day time for prayer. There is a sacred water pool around the Golden Temple where pilgrims take a holy bath. Volunteers prepare free meals for the Pilgrims every day. The temple is open to people from all religions and faith.

Vaishno Devi

One of the holiest sites in the world. The temple stands for Shakti and situated at the hills of Vaishno Devi, Jammu & Kashmir. Locals believe that Mata Vaishno Devi(a Hindu deity) resides in a cave located 5,200 feet above sea level. One cannot reach the place without the call of the Mata.

Kedarnath Temple

The holy temple is in the state of Uttarakhand, in the Rudra Himalayan range. It is a thousand-year-old temple built of massive stone and home to Lord Shiva. There is a Jyoti lingam that stands for cosmic light outside the temple stands a large statue of Nandi (bull). A journey to Kedarnath can be the most sacred and devotional journey in any individual’s life.

Jagannath Temple

One of the holiest pilgrimage sites for Hindus located in Odisha. An architectural marvel and associated with the mystical cult of Lord Jagannath. The shadow of the temple doesn’t fall on the ground at any time of the day.

There is a plethora of binge watchable TV series hitting our screens every day. Streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime continue to invest millions in their products. They are producing a host of new and decent Sci-fi series. There’s a whole world of sci-fi at our fingertips today, and most of them are pretty impressive. So, here’s a list of 10 classic science fiction web series of all time.

Arrow

Arrow is the story of a billionaire, Oliver Queen, who is determined to bring justice to the world. The show paved for the likes of Flash, Supergirl, and Batwoman brought to life. Arrow is entertaining and has an exclusive ending.

IMDb Rating:7.5

Westworld

Westworld is a brilliant concept based on a film from the ’70s that goes by the same name. It ranks as the most viewed premiere since 2014’s True Detective. Aided by a brilliant cast, it is what makes Westworld one of the finest shows of the decade.

IMDB Rating:8.7

Watchmen

Ever since it hit screens in 2019, it has been a hit. In this, you can expect expert storytelling and brilliant performances from the cast. It has got its hands on several awards and nominations as well. Watchmen is a perfect example of an entirely fresh and innovative direction.

IMDB Rating:8.1

Black Mirror

Black Mirror will blow the mind and leave you asking more questions. It brings attention to the aspects of society that we all know to have existed but chose to ignore. A masterpiece from Charlie Brooker, it’s one of those shows that is hard to ignore.

IMDB Rating:8.6

Dark

Dark is a German series, a sci-fi thriller, dubbed in English as well. Dark is mind-boggling and is more of a philosophical sci-fi series. It’s a bit confusing at times, but each scene and episode has a layer of meaning in it. It has everything from the Higgs field to dark matter, time paradox, black holes, and temporal loops to make it the perfect sci-fi watch of the year.

IMDB Rating:8.8

Stranger Things

Inspired by the 80’s pop culture. The series has intertwining stories from the Upside-Down and Eleven’s background, don’t get overwhelmed by the terms as you will get familiar with them once you start watching. As a viewer, you can’t help but get obsessed with Stranger Things. It is straight-up one of the greatest shows in the last ten years across any genre.

IMDB Rating:8.8

The Boys

The Boys deliver a different take on the life of a superhero. It’s an excellent show that is compelling from the very first episode. Karl Urban is superb in the cast. He has given a performance that deserves a wealth of praise. Whether you love superhero stories or are amidst superhero fatigue, The Boys is for you.

IMDB Rating:8.7

The Man In The High Castle

A series based on the novel by celebrated sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. An excellent interpretation of what the world might be like if the outcome of world war ll was different. Ridley Scott works on the show as executive producer. The show doesn’t come with an assembled cast of a big-name. However, it delivers when it matters!

IMDB Rating:8

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a time traveler cop who travels through space and time in a British police box. The show has been capturing the imagination of fans, young and old, for over 50 years. It’s an amazing show with a dynamic story, and each episode is full of surprises and unexpected turns.

IMDB Rating:8.6

The Flash

The show debuted in 2014 with CW hosting the show. .Flash did an excellent job of bringing some light-hearted fun to a series and the character. Flash is a wonderfully entertaining show where each episode has a good story and content. Here, you get romance, suspense, and thrill. What else do you want?

IMDB Rating:7.7

When it comes to horror movies in Bollywood, almost every movie is a cliche with several plot holes. Most of them approach a similar style to scare the audience or are a very rip-off of Hollywood movies with a repetitive storyline. Considering these points, horror is not the best genre for Bollywood. However, there are a few movies that can give you jump scares and invoke the fear of ghosts and spirits in you. Here’s a list of spooky and nail-biting Bollywood horror movies that can be counted in the list of good horror movies.

Raat

A cult classic horror movie made in both Telugu and Hindi version, upon its release, was a box office hit. Written and directed by Ram Gopal Verma, it’s a story that will instil fear about an old Indian belief. The movie shows that it’s a bad omen if a cat is accidentally killed in your premise as it indicates bad spirits possess a member. A thrilling supernatural movie!

13B: Fear Has a New Address

Yavaram Nalam, a Tamil film, was released in Hindi as 13B. It’s a neo-noir psychological horror-thriller starring R. Madhavan and directed by Vikram Kumar. The movie lives up to its expectation of scary events. The concept of horror in it was a new one for Indian cinema. Here modern technology is the mode of communication for the ghosts.

Darna Mana Hai

This is another cult classic from Ram Gopal Verma which shows that as a directed he is daring to try new concepts. The film consists of six different stories and kinda inspired by the campfire tales. The story and the plot will keep you at the edge of your seat. This is definitely a piece of art in the Bollywood horror movies sector.

Tumbbad

One of the most underrated Bollywood horror movies directed by Anil Barve and Anand Gandhi. It’s a very low budget movie with a fascinating and gripping story. It follows the story of a search of hidden treasure in the 20th-century pre-independence era. The movie captures your mind! One of the best horror movies in modern cinema that has raised the standard of Bollywood.

Bhoot

An overall nice horror movie that has a new style element of horror with a frequent interception of loud scream moments. Again the director is Ram Gopal Verma. The story follows a possessed wife and proved to be a box office hit with stars like Ajay Devgan and Urmila Matondkar. The suspense, horror, and thrill are well delivered by Verma in this movie.

Paari

A dark mythological supernatural thriller with a good storyline. Staring Anuskha Sharma as the lead protagonist of the movie while Prosit Roy is the director. The story revolves around black magic and a satanic cult. It delivers quite a chilling and nerve-wracking experience with brilliant casting. Unfortunately, Pakistan banned the movie stating religious offence.

1920

If you like the jump scares and plots like conjuring then this might be your Bollywood horror to go for. It’s a movie directed by Vikram Bhatt and inspired by the movie Exorcist. The plot revolves around the events surrounding a married couple living in a haunted house in the year 1920.

Ek Thi Daayan

A supernatural thriller directed by Kannan Iyer and adapted from the short story Mobius Trips by Mukul Sharma. The movie did a decent job in the box office. While the movie is a paranormal thriller with an attempt to try something new. The movie has a unique style of combining outdoor horror with thrilling sequences.

Makdee

A movie that will surely leave you scared of witches. The film tells the story of a young girl in north India and her encounter with an alleged witch. Directed by Vishal Bharadwaj, the movie has Shabana Azmi with her excellent performance. In fact, all the actors did a great job.

Mahal

One of the oldest Bollywood movie that was certainly ahead of its time. It has shaped the horror movies for Indian Cinema. Starring Madhubala and Ashok Kumar, mahal is an instant classic with a captivating performance by the actors. Directed by Kamal Amrohi, the movie deals with the concept of reincarnation. Even after 70 years of its release, the movie can still haunt you.

2020 is the year with a very few exciting new releases on sci-fi genres. Still, there have been a handful of recent sci-fi movies to watch ranging from the delightful golden age of science function to dark dystopian modern-day thrillers. After watching these movies, you will agree that it’s not quite a bad time for sci-fi fans. So, here’s a list of the best sci-fi movies to watch in 2020.

Sea Fever

Nesa Hardiman’s critically acclaimed feature-length debut Sea fever follows a Marine Biology student who buys her way onto a fishing tour to research formal behavioural patterns in Marine biology. A mysterious hole appears in the boat, she goes down with her diving gear to check the cause and discovers something that poses a real threat to everyone. Sea Fever is basically a movie like an alien in the open water but far more exciting. Given the condition of people in 2020, they can understand and relate to it easily.

The invisible man

The movie stars Elisabeth Mose as Cecilia, a woman who believes she’s being stalked by her ex who was a control freak. Despite the fact that he killed himself after she escaped from him she still gets that feeling. Cecilia’s paranoia leads her back to the huge house she shared with an optics engineer Adrian Griffin and there the story begins to unfold. Quite an exciting theme that is expressed well.

Sonic the hedgehog

Paramount made a complete redesign of the eponymous blue hedgehog, the end result was a charming and entertaining family film that imagined sonic as an Alien who comes to earth to hide from those seeking to exploit his super-speed. The movie didn’t do much for the average critic but it was a real big amongst sonic fans. It’s surely entertaining! Just watch the trailer and you will know.

A colour out of space

Directed by Stanley Richard whose mother was a huge Lovecraft fan, the movie follows farmer Nathan Gardner and his family who were thrown into a purple tinge nightmare after a meteorite from extraterrestrial space land on their property. A strange alien colour spread across their farmland causing the animals to mutate and turning the plants sentient, it’s a mind-bending experience pulled off by Stanley.

Time to hunt

Parasite star Choi Woo Shik plays one of the four desperate young men that takes a daring heist in a Korean sci-fi action thriller. The movie is set in the future version of South Korea crippled by a financial crash. This dystopian thriller follows four protagonists as they try to disappear sticking up the patrons of an illegal gambling den. Things rapidly descend into violence when a merciless assassin comes after them hell-bent on retrieving the cash and CCTV hard drives they stole.

Underwater

Directed by William Hugh Bank which stars Kristen Stewart. It follows a crew of aquatic researchers dealing with the fact that their station is starting to implode what seems to be an earthquake at first. But soon enough it was revealed that something more sinister is at play out in the water. The movie got mixed reviews with most people calling it a rip off of an alien invasion movie.

Vivarium

This movie stars Jesse Eisenberg Imogen Poots in lead. And it’s definitely a very strange movie! The story is about a young couple looking for the perfect home who finally found themselves, trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighbourhood of identical houses, in Vivarium. They are basically stuck in this town, and the only way out according to what they tell them is that they have to raise the child under a twilight zone circumstances. A unique and crazy storyline, do watch it if you like to crush your brains.

Sputnik

A Russian sci-fi horror movie. The special effect in this movie is really good which shows us enough to get us engaged and grossed out. A doctor is summoned to a secret military base to examine a cosmonaut and while returning he brought back something from space he didn’t intend to. A suspenseful and nail-biting experience is what to get in this movie.

Possessor

This is absolutely one of the best sci-fi horror-thriller movies of 2020 and a must-watch for everyone. The movie follows an agent who works for a secret organization that uses brain implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies. But the fact is hidden from many that ultimately the implant drives them to commit assassination for high-paying clients. This movie is directed by Brandon Cronenberg who uses the storyline as a symbolic metaphor that actually feels real in the real world.

Tenet

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, the movie stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson among the few. The movie revolves around a protagonist’s journey through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real-time. This is obviously a complex movie and that’s what draws the audience to watch a Nolan movie. We all know Nolan is a big fan of mystery and he wants to have the audience ask a lot of questions and he continues that with Tenet.

With so many original TV shows on Netflix, it can be difficult to choose one and watch. To make things easier for you, we have curated a list of ten Hindi web series on Netflix which you can try watching once. If you are wondering about our selection criteria, then the first thing was the show must qualify as a Netflix original series. And the rest is solely based on entertainment and ratings. But not in any particular order because it isn’t an easy task. You will know once you have watched all the shows on the list:

Delhi crime

An Indian crime drama directed by Richie Mehta and starring Shefali Shah in the lead role. Based on the 2012 Delhi case, it follows the aftermath of the tragic incident. In the show, a Deputy Police Commissioner is assigned to find the culprits responsible for the assault and death of the victim. It has a good rating of 8.5 on IMDb.

Leila

Starring Huma Qureshi, Akshay Khanna, and Siddharth Suryanaryan as actors, the story is based on 2017 novel by Prayaag Akbar in a dystopian drama. Leila follows the story of a woman who tries to find her missing daughter in a dictatorial regime in the future. The series got a mixed response, it did poor on IMDb with a very low rating of 4.7 but did ok on Rotten Tomatoes scoring 80% on the Tomatometer.

Selection Day

Directed by Udayan Prasad who is an Indian-born British television and film director. The story is based on Aravind Adiga’s novel, which follows the life of two brothers raised by their cricket-obsessed father. The series is also produced by Anil Kapoor and Anand Tucker. It’s a great series to watch for all cricket fans and has a decent IMDb rating of 7.4.

Lust stories

Directed by the four prominent directors of India, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, and Karan Johar. The show consists of four short films. It aims to portray the realistic aspect and grey shades of being in a relationship and also the psychology of the modern society. The series also got two nominations for the 47th Emmy awards and has a rating of 6.5 on IMDB.

Little Things

A very low budget web series originally premiered by Dice media. But later Netflix took hold of the franchise and added new episodes to it. The web series has a good story with excellent picking of everyday events. Everything in the story revolves around a couple staying in Mumbai in a live-in relationship. The series does incredibly well with a rating of 8.2 on IMDB.

Jamtara

A crime drama series directed by Somendra Pahi where the story revolves around a real phishing incident that took place in Jamtara. The cast has new faces but performed exceptionally well while playing their characters. The series got quite popular for its dialogues and one-liner just like in sacred games. IMDB rating for this series is 7.3.

Taj Mahal 1989

Directed and written by Pushpendra Nath Mishra, Taj Mahal is an Indian rom-com drama. The plot is set in Lucknow in the year 1989. The series explores the different shades of love over the ages and it revolves around several characters having different takes on love. The series has 7.5 rating on IMDB.

Ghoul

Written and directed by Patrick Graham, it is a short series with only three episodes. Radhika Apte and Manav Kaul are in the cast. It’s an Indian horror series based on Arabic folklore monster named Ghoul. The setup and background of the series are very chilling with a few jump scare scenes. Ghoul is definitely worth watching for anyone who loves horror. It’s rated 7.1 on IMDB.

Sacred Games

The first Netflix original series in India, directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. It is a crime thriller web series based on Vikram Chandra’s 2006 novel. The series has a brilliant cast and screenplay which is done in two timelines separately by both directors. The story keeps the audience hooked and the series has it’s own fan base altogether. One of the best Indian web series to watch on Netflix with an IMDB rating of 8.7.

Stories By Rabindranath Tagore

Directed by Anurag Basu, the series comprises short stories written by Rabindranath Tagore. Each story is a masterpiece in its own right and also has amazing cinematography combined with a brilliant performance. The stories written by Tagore are progressive and brought a shift in the mindset of traditional Indian values. The directors have depicted the essence well on screen. The series has one of the best ratings for web series with a rating of 8.9 on IMDB.