Hey Prabhu! is a 2019

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comedy web series directed by Shashanka Ghosh for

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. The series stars

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, Parul Gulati, Ritu Raj Singh,

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

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

Plot

The web series is based on a story that revolves around 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

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'', (''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 February 13, 2019, by

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

platform.

Piracy

All the episodes of the series were leaked by the bootleg website Tamil Rockers 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, it's entertaining plot and two, it's 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."

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