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Fall

Fall is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language mystery thriller web series directed by Siddharth Ramaswamy, in which a young woman who survives a fall from a terrace wakes from a coma with no memory of the 24 hours before her alleged suicide attempt and tries to reconstruct what happened.¹ It premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 9 December 2022 and is an official adaptation of the award-winning Canadian series Vertige, written by Michelle Allen and produced by Productions Pixcom Inc.¹^•² The same title was used in the same year by an American survival thriller film directed by Scott Mann, covered in a separate section below.³

Key fact	Detail
Format	Tamil-language story-based web series, 1 season of 7 episodes, about 36 minutes each⁴^•⁵
Premiere	9 December 2022 on Disney+ Hotstar; three episodes released first, then further episodes weekly¹^•⁶
Source	Official remake of the Canadian series Vertige, written by Michelle Allen²
Lead cast	Anjali as Divya, S. P. Charan as Rohit Selvakumar, Santhosh Prathap as Daniel, Sonia Agarwal as Malar⁷
Languages	Originally Tamil; streamed in Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada as well²
Audience rating	5.3 out of 10 on IMDb (277 votes); the show was canceled after one season⁷
Status	Ended; currently streaming on JioHotstar and VI movies and tv in India⁵^•⁴

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Premise

The story centers on Divya (Anjali), an ambitious young woman who falls from a terrace and slips into a coma. Her parents hold out hope for her recovery, but after six months without response to treatment one of her siblings suggests euthanasia. Divya next wakes up with no recollection of the 24 hours preceding the fall, and as she reconstructs the events, she comes to see that nobody around her is trustworthy, her nearest friends and relatives included, while secrets, lies, and what the promotional material describes as the unspeakable truth locked in her memory come to light.⁸^•¹

The supporting cast maps onto Divya's family and circle: Thalaivasal Vijay and Poornima Bhagyaraj play her parents, S. P. Charan plays her brother Rohit Selvakumar, Sonia Agarwal plays Malar, Rohit's wife and Divya's friend, and Santhosh Prathap plays Daniel, Divya's boyfriend and former lover figure in the plot.⁸^•⁶ Namita Krishnamurthy plays Maya Selvakumar, and the ensemble also includes Sastika Rajendran, Raj Mohan, Ajit Koshy, and Nakkalites Dhanam.⁷^•⁹

Production

Siddharth Ramaswamy, a cinematographer-turned-director who had shot films including Kamal Haasan's Mumbai Xpress, Dhanush's Yaaradi Nee Mohini, and Vasanthabalan's Aravaan, both directed the series and handled its cinematography.¹⁰ Kishan C Chezhiyan edited and Ajesh composed the music.¹⁰ The production companies were Banijay Asia and Circle Box Entertainment, with producers credited including S. Raj Narayanan, Deepak Dhar, and Rajesh Chadha.¹¹^•⁷ Karundhel Rajesh is credited as a writer alongside Ramaswamy.⁷

For lead actor Anjali, Fall followed OTT appearances in the anthologies Paava Kadhaigal and Navarasa and the Telugu series Jhansi and Bahishkarana; at the time she was also part of Shankar's film RC15 with Ram Charan.¹⁰

Release and reception

The trailer was released in late November 2022, and the series premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 9 December 2022 with three episodes, followed by weekly releases.¹²^•⁶ Reviews were divided. The OTTplay review of the first three episodes gave 3.5 out of 5, praising the casting and calling S. P. Charan's portrayal of a crooked, practical entrepreneur the highlight.⁸ The Tamil Filmibeat review also rated it 3.5 out of 5.⁶ By contrast, the ottlist review rated it 2 out of 5, judging that the screenplay drew viewers in at first but became predictable, and criticizing the technical work.¹³ A Leisurebyte review of episodes 4 and 5 described the middle stretch as running in circles with no progress.¹⁴

Aggregated audience response was modest: IMDb lists 5.3 out of 10 from 277 votes, and the series was canceled after its single season.⁷ As of late 2026 the series streams in India on JioHotstar, on VI movies and tv, or free with ads on JioHotstar.⁴

The 2022 American film of the same name

A separate 2022 work titled Fall is an American survival thriller directed by Scott Mann from a script by Mann and Jonathan Frank, running 107 minutes and rated PG-13.³ Grace Caroline Currey plays Becky and Virginia Gardner plays Hunter, two friends who climb an abandoned 2,000-foot television tower in a desert to scatter the ashes of Becky's husband Dan (Mason Gooding), who died in a climbing accident a year earlier; a ladder collapse leaves them stranded on the summit platform with no way down and no way to call for help.³ Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays Becky's father James in a small role.³ The film was shot in the Mojave Desert, and cinematographer MacGregor used vertiginous angles that reviewers singled out; Tim Despic composed the score.³^•¹⁵

Critical reception split along the same line as the series': Brian Tallerico's review for RogerEbert.com called the film a misfire whose thin dialogue and overzealous editing betray its premise, while Philip Kemp in Sight and Sound called it a tense, taut two-hander (a work with only two main performers) carried by the chemistry between Gardner and Currey.³^•¹⁵ The Washington Post's Michael O'Sullivan described it as a hyper-coaster of a movie that ratchets up tension to an almost unbearable degree despite a bare-bones screenplay.¹⁶ The film was followed by a sequel, Fall 2: Deadpoint (2026), making it the first of two films in the Fall Collection.¹⁷

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › South and Southeast Asian serials › South Asian web serials

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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