India, July 2 -- When a web series begins with a lead character broadly generalising the concept of social war as a disease developed in the course of progress and fear as a root cause of it, without factoring in scarcity or feasibility, you know everything might not be as it seems. Isakapatnam is a great case study on how brutality is probably the only way to seek power, but it doesn't make for a great web series.

Isakapatnam (a barely masked alternative to Visakhapatnam) is a crime-ridden port town. It is run by a ruthless Naidu (Samuthirakani) who ensures that everything, from illegal businesses to the people who reside there, is under his control. His man Friday, Kottaiah (Banerjee), is the only one who remotely gets to see his soft ...