Aashram

The story revolves around a preacher Baba Nirala (Bobby Deol), whose followers (mostly from the disadvantaged sections of the society) have blind faith in him and will do anything that he asks of them. But in reality, Baba Nirala is a conman turned godman, who ensures that his devotees devote their wealth to him and stay attached to the ashram for life, while politicians Hukum Singh (Sachin Shroff) and incumbent CM Sundar Lal (Anil Rastogi) vie for his support in the upcoming State Legislative Assembly Elections owing to his large number of followers, which only increase after a pop singer, Tinka Singh (Adhyayan Suman) decides to conduct tours with Baba Nirala to promote his new song.

Meanwhile, SI Ujagar Singh (Darshan Kumar) is a cop who isn't really interested in his job and simply follows his seniors' orders, until he meets Dr. Natasha (Anupriya Goenka) in a case related to a skeleton found on the property of an industrial group which has good ties with Sundar Lal. Her constant pestering, along with the stubbornness of a small-time journalist Akhivendra Rathi a.k.a Akki (Rajeev Siddhartha) encourages him to take up this case, along with his assistant-cum-sidekick Sadhu Sharma (Vikram Kocchar).

Every episode unfolds a mystery that revolves around the Baba Nirala. Whether the cop will find evidence and prove anything is left for the Part II of 'Aashram' . All episodes of Part II of 'Aashram' were aired on 11 November 2020 on MX Player.

In Oct 2021, the Bajrang Dal group targeted Ashram web series sets and Prakash Jha for defaming Hindus and the entire ashram system, through his web series.[9]

• Bobby Deol as Kashipur Waale Baba Nirala / Monty Singh
• Chandan Roy Sanyal as Bhopa Bhai/Bhopa Swami/Bhupendra Singh
• Aaditi Pohankar as Parminder aka Pammi
• Tushar Pandey as Satti aka Satwinder Lochan
• Darshan Kumar as SI Ujagar Singh
• Anupriya Goenka as Dr. Natasha
• Tridha Choudhury as Babita
• Vikram Kochhar as Sadhu Sharma
• Anil Rastogi as CM Sundar Lal
• Sachin Shroff as Hukum Singh
• Anurita Jha as Kavita
• Rajeev Siddhartha as Akki
• Jahangir Khan as Michael Rathi
• Adhyayan Suman as Tinka Singh, a famous pop singer
• Keshav Pandit as Kavita's father
• Mala Sinha as Kavita's mother
• Rupesh Kumar as Nonny, Pammi's cousin
• Navdeep Tomar as Sunny, an Aashram Goon
• Akhilesh Tripathi and Jigesh as Baba's sons
• Preeti Singh as Sangeeta Wrestler

Writing for NDTV, Saibal Chatterjee rated the series 3 out of 5 adding that “Prakash Jha's digital debut is ambitious, provocative and action-packed.” He praised the performances of actors and concept handling from the director Prakash Jha.[13] Rohan Nahaar of Hindustan Times wrote that Aashram is “a show that doesn’t have the courage of its convictions. The self-censorship of sex scenes is emblematic of the trepidation with which Jha approaches the story. As it turns out, that ridiculous disclaimer was utterly unnecessary.”[14]

• Aashram at IMDb
• Aashram on MX Player