''LSD - Love, Scandal & Doctors'' is an Indian
Hindi
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-language
medical thriller
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web series
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that is streaming digitally on
ALTBalaji
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and
ZEE5
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from 5 February 2021. The writers of the series are Palki Malhotra, Prakriti Mukherjee and Sumrit Shahi while it has been directed by Sattwik Mohanty, Preya Hirji, and Saqib Pandor. Produced by
Ekta Kapoor
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under the production company
Balaji Telefilms
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. Web series stars
Rahul Dev
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Ra ...
,
Punit Pathak
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, Ishaan A Khanna,
Siddharth Mennon, Ayush Shrivastava and Neha Hinge in lead roles. It is the story of the medical profession with power, nepotism, sexual politics and the competition.
Synopsis
It is a story of 5 interns at the leading teaching hospital KMRC who are going to find the ugly truth the hard way. They have to traverse their internship under a strict murder investigation.
Cast
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Rahul Dev
Rahul Dev (born 27 September 1968) is an Indian actor and former model who predominantly works in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam language films and few Marathi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Punjabi and Odia flims.
Early life
Ra ...
as Dr. Rana
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Punit J Pathak as Inspector Tavish Singh
* Ishaan A Khanna as Dr Kartik Rana
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Siddharth Mennon as Dr Vikramjeet Bedi
* Tanaya Sachdeva as Dr Sara Borade
* Srishti Rindhani as Dr Rahima Mansurie
* Ayush Shrivastava as Dr Kabir
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Neha Hinge
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Early life ...
as Dr Chitra Rana
* Ashmita Jaggi as Dr Samkeesha
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Ujjwal Gauraha as Lawyer
* Pulkit Makol as Asif Mansurie
* Manish Pant as Assistant Inspector Dinesh Kohli
* Surabhi Tiwari as Mona
* Riva Arora as Rhea
*Ravi Chhabra
Release date
ALTBalaji and ZEE5 have released this web series on 5 February 2021.
Episodes
Reception
Critical reviews
Joginder Tuteja on
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, it had more than 300 e ...
has given 4/5 stars ratings applauding that it will keep engrossed right through, with the needle of suspicion move to every character in the story. All the actors have played their role well. The writing and dialogues of the web series are good and there were no unwanted scenes. Further criticized that "When the core story works, everything else is secondary, and this holds true in the case of LSD"
Ronak Kotecha of
The Times of India
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Review team has given 3/5 stars rating stating that it is a worth watching with a healthy dose of entertainment and fascination. With young doctors in action it is a high on adrenaline. The series has no dull moment and actors have given justice to their roles. Some of them couldn't make it through, however, all the women actors were in characters compare it to men. Loud background score, unwanted abuses and the constant back and forth in the timeline could have been avoided.
Apoorv Shandilya from Xappie has given 3/5 stars rating saying that doctors can skip this show as it is fiction based story, while others can watch it for one time at least. Criticized that Rahul Dev performance steal the show and story made more appealing. On the negative front, he stated that "The relationship between young interns and senior doctors within the hospital is made increasingly hostile just to please the show’s story". During the pandemic situation this isn’t the good time to release a show that portrays doctors in the light of evil murderers.
Pakaao
has given 3.5/stars rating for this web series stating it is good show with plot and execution. Script pace was high from the beginning till the end and dialogues were very good. Acting by Siddharth Menon, Tanaya Sachdeva and Rahul Dev were good. Music, Cinematography, Special Effects, Editing team and directors has done a good job.
References
External links
LSD - ''Love, Scandal and Doctors' at
ZEE5
ZEE5 is an Indian subscription video on-demand and over-the-top streaming service, run by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched in India on 14 February 2018 with content in 12 languages. The ZEE5 mobile app is available on Web, Androi ...
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ALTBalaji
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