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Feels Like Ishq

Feels Like Ishq is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language anthology television series released on Netflix, consisting of six short films of roughly half an hour each about young adults finding romantic connection in unexpected places.1 • 2 Netflix announced the series on 30 June 2021 and premiered all six episodes on 23 July 2021.2

Key factDetail
FormatAnthology of six standalone short films, each about 27 to 31 minutes long1
Premiere23 July 2021, exclusively on Netflix2
DirectorsRuchir Arun, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, Anand Tiwari, Danish Aslam, Jaydeep Sarkar, and Sachin Kundalkar, with Devrath Sagar as creative director2
ProductionMutant Films and Awesomeness TV; executive producers Seher Aly Latif, Shivani Saran, Shelley Zimmerman, Brin Lukens, and Jennifer Vasquez2
CastRadhika Madan, Amol Parashar, Rohit Saraf, Kajol Chugh, Mihir Ahuja, Simran Jehani, Saba Azad, Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, Zayn Khan, Neeraj Madhav, Tanya Maniktala, and Skand Thakur2
Language and ratingHindi; rated U/A 16+ in India and TV-MA in the United States1 • 3
Audience score6.5/10 on IMDb from about 1,800 user ratings4

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Premise and episodes

Each episode is a self-contained story with a new cast of characters, linked by the theme of the early, uncertain stage of romantic attraction. Netflix describes the series as short films following young adults through the emotions of finding romantic connection in unexpected places.1 The six episodes are:

  1. Save the Da(y)te (30 min): a bridesmaid, Avni (Radhika Madan), and a wedding planner, Jay (Amol Parashar), with opposing views on love and commitment, search together for a runaway bride.1
  2. Quaranteen Crush (30 min): a teen (Mihir Ahuja) tells small lies to meet the girl self-quarantining next door (Kajol Chugh) during the COVID-19 pandemic.1
  3. Star Host (31 min): a teen rents his parents' holiday home to an unexpected solo traveler, and a sour first weekend turns into one to remember.1
  4. She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not (29 min): a closeted advertising associate falls for an out-and-proud new colleague, and her attempts to confess do not go as planned.1
  5. Interview (27 min): two young people, played by Neeraj Madhav and Zayn Marie Khan, wait to interview for the same sales job in Mumbai.1 • 5
  6. Ishq Mastana: a recently single, privileged teen (Skand Thakur) goes on what he thinks is a casual date with the activist Mehr (Tanya Maniktala) during a protest, and the two are arrested along with her friends.6 • 7

The stories span settings including a wedding, a pandemic quarantine, a rental holiday home, an office, a job interview, and a street protest. Reviewers noted that one episode covers LGBTQ love, another working people, and a third is set in a small town.8

Production

The series was produced by Mutant Films, the Mumbai development and production company founded in 2016 by partners Seher Aly Latif and Shivan Saran, in collaboration with Awesomeness TV, a ViacomCBS subsidiary focused on Gen Z audiences.2 Mutant's earlier credits include the films Gold, Noblemen, Shakuntala Devi, and Maska, and the series Bhaag Beanie Bhaag.2 Writers credited across the episodes include Monisha Thyagarajan, Gazal Dhaliwal, Saurabh Swamy, Aarsh Vora, Sulagna Chatterjee, Danish Aslam, Arati Raval-Pandey, Sachin Kundalkar, Jaydeep Sarkar, Shubhra Chatterji, and Ira Dubey.2

Reception

Critical response was mixed. Udita Jhunjhunwala's review in Scroll described the series as trying so hard to be cute that it was often flimsy, while singling out the episodes by Sachin Kundalkar and Tahira Kashyap Khurrana as the standouts.8 Sukanya Verma's Rediff review compared the series to the American anthology Modern Love, finding it without that show's range or emotion but still capturing the idea of a magical connection between two people over six breezy half-hour episodes.9 A review in The Quint judged the first three episodes uneven and the later shorts stronger, naming She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not and Interview as the best of the lot.10 The Times of India noted the easy charm of its largely upper-middle-class young characters as both the series' appeal and its downside.5

On IMDb the series holds a 6.5/10 rating from about 1,800 users, with per-episode scores ranging from 6.0 for Save the Da(y)te and Ishq Mastana to 7.8 for Interview.4 TVmaze lists the series as ended after its single 2021 season.6

References

  1. Feels Like Ishq, Netflix
  2. 6 Stories, One Emotion: Surely 'Feels Like Ishq' As Netflix Drops The Trailers Of Its Upcoming Series!, About Netflix (30 June 2021)
  3. Feels Like Ishq streaming details, JustWatch (US)
  4. Feels Like Ishq Ratings, IMDb
  5. Feels Like Ishq Season 1 Review, The Times of India
  6. Feels Like Ishq, TVmaze
  7. Feels like Ishq is a Light-Hearted Romance Anthology that Struggles to Leave Lasting Impressions, UpThrust
  8. 'Feels Like Ishq' review: Series about young love is mostly mush, Scroll.in (23 July 2021)
  9. Feels Like Ishq review, Rediff.com Movies (23 July 2021)
  10. Review: Feels Like Ishq is Inconsistent but Pushes the Idea of Love Further, The Quint (23 July 2021)

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026

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