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Laakhon Mein Ek

Laakhon Mein Ek (लाखों में एक) is an Indian Hindi-language drama web series created by comedian and writer Biswa Kalyan Rath for Amazon Prime Video, first released on October 13, 20171. It runs as an anthology: each season follows a different ordinary person confronting an unresponsive system, first a teenager trapped in an IIT coaching institute and then a young doctor posted to rural healthcare2. Rath described the title's meaning as "the journey of a character from being one amongst a million to one in a million"3.

Key factDetail
Original networkPrime Video (2017–2019); status ended4
First airedOctober 13, 20171
Seasons2 seasons; season 1 in October 2017, season 2 in April 20191
Created by / directed byBiswa Kalyan Rath (creator, co-writer); Abhishek Sengupta (director)1
Language and genreHindi; drama4
Episode lengthAbout 26–27 minutes4
IMDb rating8.1/10 from about 4.3 thousand votes5

Spoilers

Season 1: the coaching institute

Season 1 follows Aakash Gupta (Ritwik Sahore), a 15-year-old from Raipur who wants to make mimicry videos and post them online. His father instead sends him to an IIT coaching institute called Genius Infinity, far from home, where Aakash cannot cope with the syllabus and is placed in the notorious section D, alongside roommates nicknamed Bakri (Jay Thakkar) and Chudail (Alam Khan)6. The season examines hostel life in a coaching institute and the pressure students face in a competitive environment7.

The story drew on Rath's own life. An ex-IITian who rose to fame with stand-up comedy and the "Pretentious Movie Reviews" videos he made with Kanan Gill, Rath said the first season was loosely based on his personal experience8. An Indian Express review called the series a dark tale and noted that Aakash's parents are not the only ones pressuring a son to get into IIT9.

Sources disagree on the season's episode count: Rath said in an April 2019 interview that the first season had 6 episodes10, and TheTVDB lists 611, while JustWatch and TVmaze list 86 • 4.

Season 2: rural healthcare

Season 2, released in April 2019, changed protagonist and subject. It stars Shweta Tripathi as Dr. Shreya Pathare, a bright young medical student in the final year of her training at a government hospital, who is made to conduct a cataract surgery camp in a remote village2 • 7. The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics described the season as an authentic depiction of her rural posting at a primary health center in a village called Sitlapur, opening with a medical committee investigating a botched-up cataract camp and told in flashback; it portrays workplace violence, siphoning of hospital supplies, and villagers' reliance on an unqualified local practitioner12.

Unlike season 1, the writing rested on research rather than personal experience. Rath, co-writers Abhishek Sengupta and lyricist Hussain Haidry, and screenwriter Anuraadha Tewari as script consultant hired medical consultants and made site visits; Rath summarized the finding as too little budget per capita for medical infrastructure and too few doctors per capita3. The season has 8 episodes and many parallel character tracks, a harder screenplay than the first season's single protagonist focus10. India Today's review found less scope for humor than season 1 given the setting, and credited the series with pushing its young audience to acknowledge inconvenient truths about a corrupt system7.

Cast and production

The main cast includes Ritwik Sahore as Aakash Gupta, Alam Khan as Gaurav "Chudail" Sharma, Jay Thakkar as Abhishek "Bakri" Tiwari, Shivkumar Subramaniam as Srinivasan Moorthy, Dharmesh Patel as Chandrakant Rao, and Biswa Kalyan Rath and Kumar Varun as professors in season 1; Shweta Tripathi Sharma plays Dr. Shreya Pathare in season 211 • 1. The series was produced by OML Production, with executive producers Varsha Venkatesan and Ruby Thakur, and screenwriters Vaspar Dandiwala, Hussain Haidry, Abhishek Sengupta, and Sourav Ghosh1.

Reception and availability

The series holds an 8.1/10 rating on IMDb from about 4.3 thousand votes, with an unweighted mean of 8.4; per-episode ratings for season 1 range from 7.5 to 7.9 and for season 2 from 8.0 to 8.65. It is available on Amazon Prime Video, and in India also free with ads on Amazon MX Player6.

References

  1. Laakhon Mein Ek, Rotten Tomatoes
  2. Biswa Rath Kalyan: Tumko Kya Karne Ka Hai? | Laakhon Mein Ek - S2, Prime Video India (YouTube)
  3. Laakhon Mein Ek: Biswa Kalyan Rath talks about season two, starring Shweta Tripathi, Scroll.in
  4. Laakhon Mein Ek, TVmaze
  5. Laakhon Mein Ek (2017) - Ratings, IMDb
  6. Laakhon Mein Ek - streaming tv show online, JustWatch (India)
  7. Laakhon Mein Ek 2 review: Shweta Tripathi starrer exposes some inconvenient truths of a corrupt system, India Today
  8. Biswa Kalyan Rath: We wanted Shweta Tripathi in Laakhon Mein Ek from day one, The Indian Express
  9. Review Laakhon Mein Ek: Biswa Kalyan Rath's series is a dark tale that we wish was more gripping, The Indian Express
  10. Exclusive: Comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath talks about Laakhon Mein Ek Season 2, Indulge Express
  11. Laakhon Mein Ek, TheTVDB.com
  12. Laakhon mein ek: For the greater common good, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

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

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