''Hey Prabhu!'' is a 2019

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comedy web series directed by Shashanka Ghosh for

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. The series stars

Rajat Barmecha Rajat Barmecha is an Indian actor who is best known for his lead role in the 2010 Bollywood film ''Udaan (2010 film), Udaan''. Childhood Barmecha was born in Ladnun, Rajasthan, and grew up in Delhi. He attended Bal Bharati Public School, Brij V ...

, Parul Gulati, Ritu Raj Singh,

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Sheeba Chaddha Sheeba Chaddha is an Indian film, stage and television actress. She received nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the 2022 films '' Badhaai Do'' and '' Doctor G'', winning for the former. Earl ...

and Prynca Talukdar. It is written by Nihit Bhave and produced by Sanket Kunde. The series was premiered on 20 February 2019, on

. The second season of ''Hey Prabhu!'' was released on 26 March 2021.

Plot

The web series is based on the story of a boy named Tarun Prabhu (played by Rajat Barmecha), who is in his mid-20s with a strong fan following on social media platform,

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. Tarun soon realizes that online popularity is not enough to overcome real-life situations. Mita (played by

) and Arunima (played by Parul Gulati) hate Tarun's reckless behaviour and make his life difficult at work. Arunima (played by Parul Gulati), Mita's senior correspondent, who assists Tarun. His social life gets disturbed when everyone gets to know that he is suffering from

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. The title is a pun on ''Hey

Prabhu ''Prabhu'' means ''master'' or ''prince'' in Sanskrit and many of the Indian languages; it is a name sometimes applied to God. Surname Prabhu is a surname among Gaud saraswat Brahmins, saraswat Brahmins and other Brahmins across the Ko ...

'', (''Oh God''), a common opening for Hindi prayers and poems.

Cast

as Tarun Prabhu *

as Tarun's mom * Rituraj Singh as Ishwar Prabhu (Tarun's father) * Neha Panda as Rimjhim * Vaishnavi Rao as Ira * Ashish Bhatia as Aarambh * Parul Gulati as Arunima *

as Mita * Raj Bhansali as Tejpal * Pryanca Talukdar as Karishma * Shashwat Mukherjee as Sumanta * Devdutt Daani as ChaarMinaar

Marketing and release

The web series's official trailer was launched 13 February 2019, by

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. It is streaming on OTT Platform MX Player from 20 February 2019. The second season was released on 26 March 2021, on

platform.

Piracy

All the episodes of the series were leaked by the bootleg website

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within a week of release.

Reception

Sakshma Srivastav of ''

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'' gave three-and-a-half of five, saying, "What I liked about the show is one, its entertaining plot and two, its natural performances. There is a lot of situational comedy and drama." D.Krishna Prasad, writing for ''IWMBuzz'' gave 3.5 out of 5 stars and said, "The overall package, in terms of acting, script, background work, is really good. It is depicted in a natural and powerful way. It features an interesting real life story and a script well written by Nihit Bhave. The main reason why it seemed more realistic was because the series adopted a hilarious and funny way to show Rajat Barmecha's problem in a comical way, even while it touched upon the real aspects of today’s generation." ''TheDigitalHash.com'' stated, "Hey Prabhu is one of the rare web series that has an intelligent script and wants to handle the protagonist's personal as well as work-life with crackling speed and laser-sharp precision."

References

External links

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