Escaype Live

Escaype Live is an 2022 Indian Hindi-language television series created and directed by Siddharth Kumar Tewary. It is written by Jaya Misra and Siddharth Kumar Tewary, with dialogues by Vinod Sharma, Amol Surve and Ranveer Pratap Singh. Produced by Siddharth Kumar Tewary under the banner of One Life Studios, the series stars Siddharth, Jaaved Jaaferi, Shweta Tripathi, Sumedh Mudgalkar, Waluscha De Sousa, Plabita Borthakur and Ritvik Sahore. Escaype Live 9 episodes were launched on Disney+Hotstar in two instalments within a week of each other. Episode 1- 7 were dropped on 20 May 2022 and the two - part finale a week later, thereby successfully engaging their viewers and building curiosity over its content within the week.

Plot
A live streaming app has announced a contest promising instant fame and fortune to its most popular participant which turns the mundane lives of 6 regular Indians upside down as their reality begins to change form. Escaype Live, is a social thriller series offering a glimpse into the minds of people living in the world of social media and how far they're willing to go to get what they want and how as the lines between the reality and virtuality begin to blur, the rules of the game change and the order of morality transforms. When the stakes are high, how far is a person willing to go to achieve their dreams? And how much is really too much?

Cast

 * Siddharth as Krishna Rangaswamy
 * Jaaved Jaaferi as Ravi Gupta
 * Shweta Tripathi as Sunaina
 * Waluscha De Sousa as Gia Bose
 * Sumedh Mudgalkar as Dark Angel a.k.a. Darkie, Bablu in flash back
 * Plabita Borthakur as Hina a.k.a. Fetish Girl
 * Ritvik Sahore as Nilesh Sonawane a.k.a. Aamcha Spider
 * Aadya Sharma as Rani Singh a.k.a. Dance Rani
 * Rohit Chandel as Rajkumar a.k.a. Meena
 * Swastika Mukherjee as Mala
 * Alekh Sangal as Baldev
 * Geetika Vidya Ohlyan as Sita
 * Jagjeet Sandhu as Nandu
 * Mallika Singh as Shrini Rangaswamy
 * Aakanksha Singh as Devna
 * Sharat Saxena as Rajkumar's Father
 * Sanjay Narvekar as Aamcha's Father
 * Smita Tambe as Aamcha's Mother
 * Arundhati Nag as Laxmi Amma
 * Anagh Jain as Dhruv Bhalla
 * Ashwin Mushran as Jogi Balla / Dhruv's Father
 * Aditi Govitrikar as Meenal Bhalla / Dhruv's Mother
 * Kunal Thakkar as Kunal (CTO)
 * Khuman as Tashi

Release
The trailer of the series was released on 26 April 2022 consisting of seven episodes premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 20 May 2022 and remaining two episodes were released on 27 May 2022.

Critical reception
Circuswood420 from Instagram rated it 4 stars out of 5 and considered it as most underrated hotstar series while Rohan Naahar for The Indian Express rated 1 stars out of 5 stars stating "Escaype Live is a monumentally irritating show that talks down to its audience with no regard for their time, money and patience."