Churails (Witches) is a delightfully feisty, feminist, hard-hitting, Pakistan-based, 10-episode web series, directed by Asim Abbasi, now streaming on Zee5.

This Zindagi Original is long overdue; I know of no Indian equivalent that is this good, aware, nuanced, addressing gender and class, and bloody stylish. It is an Indo-Pakistan collaboration—an extraordinary achievement in itself—between producers Mo Azmi and Asim Abbasi, who is also the director-writer, and the visionary Shailja Kejriwal, and Alenkar Pathare, both of Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd. Abbasi, a London-based Pakistani-origin filmmaker, earlier made an assured debut with Cake (Netflix, 2018).