Made in India: A Titan Story Review — ★★★★☆ (4/5)
Made in India: A Titan Story is an engaging and inspiring docudrama that turns a corporate success story into compelling television. Powered by excellent performances from Jim Sarbh and Naseeruddin Shah, the series celebrates Indian innovation without losing sight of the people behind the brand.
While its deliberate pacing may not appeal to viewers seeking high-stakes drama, the show’s emotional authenticity, strong storytelling, and fascinating real-life subject matter make it a rewarding watch. A thoughtful tribute to one of India’s most iconic success stories.
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)
Platform: Amazon MX Player
Episodes: 6
Language: Hindi/English
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Jim Sarbh, Vaibhav Tatwawadi, Namita Dubey, Lakshvir Saran
Director: Robbie Grewal
Release: June 3, 2026
Not every great Indian story involves a war, a political revolution, or a cricketer. Some of the most significant things that happened to this country happened quietly, in boardrooms and factory floors and stubborn conversations between people who refused to be told that something could not be done. The story of Titan is exactly that kind of story. A watch company born in 1984, built against considerable odds, that eventually put an affordable, beautiful, Indian-made timepiece on the wrists of millions of ordinary people. It sounds modest when you say it like that. Made in India: A Titan Story makes sure you understand it was anything but.
Streaming on Amazon MX Player from June 3, 2026, the six-episode series is based on the book Titan: Inside India’s Most Successful Consumer Brand by Vinay Kamath and directed by Robbie Grewal. Each episode runs roughly sixty minutes, and the series follows the vision, ambition, and stubborn persistence that went into building one of India’s most recognisable brands from the ground up — in an era when imported goods were the mark of status and the idea of an Indian watch competing with Swiss and Japanese manufacturers was considered somewhere between optimistic and delusional.
The show belongs, very clearly, to its two leads. Naseeruddin Shah brings the kind of lived-in authority to his role that only actors with decades of craft behind them can manage. He does not perform gravitas — he simply has it, and it fills every scene he occupies. Jim Sarbh, playing the driven and visionary force at the centre of Titan’s early story, is electric in an entirely different way. Sarbh has always been one of the most watchable actors in Indian film and television, and here he operates at full stretch — passionate, occasionally reckless, absolutely convinced of what he is building, and human enough to make the doubts and setbacks feel real. Their dynamic anchors the series and gives it an emotional pulse that pure corporate history rarely achieves.
What Robbie Grewal gets right as a director is the balance between the big picture and the personal one. The series never lets you forget that Titan was not built by a strategy document — it was built by people. People who argued and compromised and sometimes failed and tried again. The obstacles were real: a market resistant to change, established global players with far greater resources, internal scepticism, and the particular difficulty of making something beautiful and affordable in a country that had been conditioned to associate quality with imported goods. The show presents all of this with enough detail to feel authentic and enough drama to keep you genuinely engaged.
Vaibhav Tatwawadi, Namita Dubey, and Lakshvir Saran round out a supporting cast that keeps the ensemble grounded. These are not cardboard supporting characters — each brings texture to the world the show is building, and the human relationships within the organisation feel as carefully drawn as the business ones.
The series is not without its minor limitations. At six episodes of sixty minutes each, there are stretches — particularly in the middle episodes — where the pacing softens and the narrative lingers a little longer than necessary on certain beats. Viewers expecting the pace and tension of a thriller will find the show occasionally slow. But Made in India is not trying to be a thriller. It is a docudrama with the patience to let a real story breathe, and most of the time that patience pays off.
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What stays with you is the feeling — hard to manufacture and easy to spot when it is genuine — of watching something that actually matters. Titan is not just a brand. For a generation of Indians, it was the first time a watch on your wrist could mean something beyond borrowed prestige. The series understands that emotional weight and handles it with care.
A feel-good docudrama in the best possible sense. Smart, well-performed, and genuinely proud of what it is celebrating — without ever tipping into propaganda.
Made in India: A Titan Story is now streaming on Amazon MX Player. All 6 episodes are available.