Lafangey OTT Release Date: When and where to watch Harsh Beniwal and Gagan Arora's coming-of-age buddy drama

Time of India

4 days ago

Lafangey OTT Release Date: Sometimes, the biggest adventures don't need a passport or plane ticket. They begin in the mohallas you grew up in, with your two best friends, a few heartbreaks, lots of job rejections, and the dream of doing something with your life. Lafangey is exactly that kind of story.
Set your calendars: June 6, 2025. That's when Lafangey starts streaming for free on Amazon MX Player. Directed by Prem Mistry and written by Abhishhek Yadav (yes, the same team behind TVF's hits), this is the kind of ride that makes you want to call your old friends and ask, 'Remember when we thought we'd be millionaires by 25?'
Welcome to Noida's backyard, where dreams are tough and friendships tougher
The camera follows three childhood friends - Chaitanya, Rohan, and Kamlesh, as they stumble into adulthood armed with ambition, desperation, and just enough faith in each other to survive. Anud Singh Dhaka, Gagan Arora, and Harsh Beniwal play the trio. Each is trying to crack life on their own terms: Chaitanya is caught in a tug-of-war between family values and a career that doesn't exist yet.
Rohan, brilliantly underplayed by Gagan, is balancing a fragile love story and a bank balance that refuses to cooperate. Kamlesh - Harsh Beniwal's breakout role - just wants to be famous, but in a world that doesn't care about dreamers without connections, he's fast learning that charm isn't always enough.
Throw in Barkha Singh as Ishita (Rohan's equally ambitious girlfriend) and Salonnay Gaur as the ever-blunt voice of reason, and Lafangey becomes a cocktail of big dreams, small-town pressure, and the kind of friendships that hold on through thick, thin and every emotional meltdown in between.
Why Lafangey might just be the most honest coming-of-age show this year
Lafangey is all about moments - small, chaotic, funny, deeply moving moments. Like when Kamlesh gets ghosted by a casting agent but still performs a monologue in the bathroom mirror. Or when Rohan has to choose between buying a gift for Ishita or paying for Wi-Fi. Or when Chaitanya silently breaks down after getting rejected again by a job he thought was 'the one.' And then they all end up on a terrace somewhere, sipping chai and talking about life like nothing ever happened.
That's Lafangey. A series that knows growing up is more of a chakkar you take with people who'll walk it with you no matter how ugly the detour.