Leila Season 1
6 episodes · about 5 hours · complete season
Filmi Score · season 1
Good
4 reviews · provisional
64
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Series premise
In the forgotten margins of the segregated communities of a dystopian future, a woman searches for the daughter that she lost upon her arrest years ago.
Where to watch
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All seasons
Season 12019 · 6 episodesGood · 4 reviews–
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Cast & crew
Created byUrmi Juvekar
Season 1 directed byShanker Raman, Deepa Mehta, Pawan Kumar
Cast
Series premise
In the forgotten margins of the segregated communities of a dystopian future, a woman searches for the daughter that she lost upon her arrest years ago.
Where to watch
Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.Family Room
Is Leila season 1 OK for kids?
Parents should know
A dystopian drama opens with a lynching and a father's murder; a mother is separated from her daughter and faces menacing camp overseers. Themes of resilience and survival are central; villain characters create mild tension.
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The record, item by item
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“opens with the lynching of a Muslim man” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“her husband is murdered” view the record →
Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“opens with the lynching of a Muslim man” view the record →
Intense scenes · Mild · Reviewer on record
“शो के नेगेटिव करेक्टर के लिए जिनको देखकर आपको थोड़ा सा डर जरूर लगता है” view the record →
Positive messages · Clear · Reviewer on record
“her fall, rise, resilience, and a final brave fight” view the record →
Role models · Clear · Reviewer on record
“her anger and fear, her will to survive” view the record →
What the critics said
4 reviews read · the critic’s own number where they gave one
15 Jun 2019
Bég calls Leila groundbreaking and unmissable, praising Huma Qureshi's raw performance, Siddharth's nuanced arc, and the direction and production,… Read it there →
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Rohan Naahar · 14 Jun 2019
Leila review: Provocative and political; Huma Qureshi owns Netflix India’s most courageous show yet | Hindustan Times Read it there →
Published · 4/5Filmi’s reading 8280
Soumya Rao · 15 Jun 2019
Scroll finds Leila's dystopian premise daring and topical but overstuffed, tackling too many themes without depth, with an uneven Huma Qureshi… Read it there →
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Deeksha Sharma · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 20 Jun 2019
2.5/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in videoFilmi’s reading 3350