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Out of Love

Out of Love is an Indian Hindi-language drama series adapted from the BBC psychological drama Doctor Foster, produced by BBC Studios India for Hotstar Specials and streamed on Disney+ Hotstar (later JioHotstar). It stars Rasika Dugal as Dr. Meera Kapoor, a doctor in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, whose marriage unravels after she finds evidence that her husband Akarsh (Purab Kohli) is having an affair.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Basis	Indian adaptation of the BBC series Doctor Foster, created by Mike Bartlett¹
Run	Season 1 premiered 22 November 2019; season 2 aired 30 April to 21 May 2021; 10 episodes in total, 5 per season³
Directors	Tigmanshu Dhulia, Aijaz Khan, and Oni Sen¹
Lead cast	Rasika Dugal (Dr. Meera Kapoor), Purab Kohli (Akarsh Kapoor), Soni Razdan (Mrs. Kapoor), Meenakshi Chaudhary (Alia Kashyap)¹^•⁴
Setting	Coonoor, Tamil Nadu²
Production	BBC Studios India and Hotstar Specials; writers Abhiruchi Chand and Suyash Trivedi; cinematography by Harendra Singh¹
Season 2 script	An original script, unlike the first season, which followed Doctor Foster⁵

Spoilers

Premise

Season 1 turns on a single clue: Meera finds a strand of blonde hair on her husband's scarf, and a lipstick in his jacket, and begins to suspect every female colleague and friend around him.²^•⁶ Akarsh denies the affair when confronted, but Meera keeps digging for proof, and the series frames her choice as forgive, forget, or fight.⁶ The affair is with a much younger woman, Alia, played by Meenakshi Chaudhary.⁵ What follows, in the words of one account of the show, is the unraveling of a thirteen-year-long marriage, with the doubts and parental guilt that accompany it.⁷

Season 2 moves past the adapted material. Meera, now divorced, has built a new life with her son until Akarsh and Alia return to Coonoor.⁸ PeepingMoon reported in October 2020 that the writers had deliberately cracked an original script for the second season rather than continuing to follow the British series, which had itself not yet covered that ground.⁵

Production and context

Hotstar announced the adaptation in October 2019 as a collaboration with BBC Studios India, with Tigmanshu Dhulia and Aijaz Khan directing; Oni Sen is also credited as a director on the series pages.³^•⁴ It was Hotstar's sixth original series of 2019, part of a slate of local remakes of BBC formats that also included Criminal Justice and The Office.⁶^•⁹ Shooting for season 2 began in Coonoor in late October 2020, with Dugal and Kohli reprising their roles.⁵

Out of Love is one of several international versions of Doctor Foster. By April 2021 the format had been licensed to South Korea, France, Russia, Turkey, India, and the Philippines; the Korean version, The World of the Married, became that country's highest-rated drama in cable TV history.¹⁰ The Philippine version aired as The Broken Marriage Vow.¹¹ TheTVDB lists "Doctor Foster (IN)", "The Broken Marriage Vow (IN)", and "The World of the Married (IN)" as aliases for the Indian series, reflecting how format remakes are cataloged across markets.¹²

Reception

Critical response to season 1 was divided. The Hindustan Times review called Rasika Dugal's performance stunning and the series a nail-biting remake, while noting that viewers who knew Doctor Foster would find it unsettling to watch the story follow the original scene by scene.¹³ The Times of India called it an engaging drama offering a modern view of marriage and the independent urban Indian woman, but found the prevalence of adultery among every couple in the story unconvincing.² Subhash K Jha, reviewing for the National Herald, gave it two and a half stars and argued that Meera's grievance seemed unconvincing in the Coonoor setting, where everyone knows everyone else, unlike the environment of the British original.¹⁴ Gadgets 360's review was the most negative, calling it a highly faithful remake that betrayed a lack of interest in molding the events of Doctor Foster to an Indian context, and asking what a performer of Dugal's caliber might have done with original material.¹⁵ On Rotten Tomatoes the season 1 Tomatometer stood at only 2 reviews, too small a sample for a consensus score.¹⁶

Other works of the same title

A separate 2025 French film also titled Out of Love, directed by Nathan Ambrosioni and starring Camille Cottin as a woman whose sister abandons her two children with her, won the Best Director Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and screened at the French Film Festival; it runs 111 minutes.¹⁷^•¹⁸ It is unrelated to the Indian series.

References

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