Indian OTT Legal Cinema Analysis with 12 Coding Variables (2018–2024)

35 Indian OTT legal titles released between 2018 and 2024 are analyzed across twelve coding variables. The dataset, created by Anonza Priyadarshini and shared on figshare, captures institutional, thematic, and representational dimensions of legal storytelling. It includes a majority of titles in Hindi with substantial representation from Tamil and Malayalam cinema.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the depiction of legal institutions and procedural accuracy based on the five-point scale variable.
• Studying the representation of social issues like caste discrimination or sexual violence based on the primary legal issues variable.
• Comparing narrative outcomes and protagonist demographics based on caste, gender, and religion variables.
• Assessing carceral realism and gaps in depicting legal aid realities based on the 0 to 2 scale index.

Strengths

• Contains 35 distinct titles, providing a focused corpus for analysis.
• Structured across twelve coding variables capturing multiple analytical dimensions.
• Includes a procedural accuracy scale and a carceral realism index for quantitative assessment.
• Covers a defined time period (2018–2024) of rapid OTT platform expansion in India.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 14.3 KB file size indicates a very small dataset with limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely manually curated and coded for academic study.

Time Range

2018–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 11:43:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

India