🎞️ Any good regional OTT shows worth recommending outside the big Hindi ones

Most streaming recommendations I actually come across online tend to heavily favor Hindi language content specifically, understandably given the sheer overall size of that particular audience, but I have been genuinely trying to actively seek out more regional language shows lately and have found the actual search process considerably harder than I originally expected it to be. A Telugu series a colleague recommended turned out to be genuinely excellent, well written, strong performances throughout, and a specific story that felt distinctly regional in its actual setting and cultural details rather than simply being a translated or dubbed version of some more generic, broader premise. It genuinely surprised me how little actual online buzz it seemed to have gotten compared to how genuinely good the actual content itself turned out to be. Part of the specific challenge seems to be discoverability itself, most platform algorithms appear to default toward pushing whatever is currently trending in Hindi specifically, which means genuinely good regional content can end up buried unless you already know specifically what you are actually looking for beforehand, or happen to stumble across a direct personal recommendation from someone else who watched it themselves. Asked a few friends from different specific regional backgrounds for their own personal recommendations, and ended up with a genuinely solid, varied list spanning Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali productions I would honestly never have actually found on my own just browsing casually through whatever the platform happened to be actively promoting that week. This makes me think there is probably a genuinely large amount of excellent regional content quietly sitting there that most casual viewers, myself included until fairly recently, simply never actually encounter purely because of how these specific platforms tend to structure their own recommendations and general promotion strategies. What are some genuinely good regional OTT shows people here would actually recommend, particularly ones outside the more widely, commonly discussed Hindi language content that tends to dominate most general online discussions?

Malayalam shows deserve way more attention outside their own state, a coworker put me onto one last year during a slow week and the writing was tighter than most bigger budget Hindi productions I had sat through around the same time. Language barrier stopped mattering within maybe two episodes once the subtitles settled into a rhythm alongside the story itself properly, and I ended up finishing the whole run within a fortnight without much effort.