TVF Pitchers is a web series created by The Viral Fever and developed by Arunabh Kumar. The first season consists of five episodes and premiered online on The Viral Fever's content portal TVFPlay on 3 June 2015. A week later, on 10 June, it premiered on YouTube. The season finale premiered on TVFPlay on 30 August 2015. It follows four friends, Naveen, Jitu, Yogi and Mandal, who quit their jobs in order to develop their own start-up company. The show was highly appreciated and has since developed a cult status.
Premise
Four friends, Naveen Bansal, Jitendra Maheshwari, Yogendra Kumar and Saurabh Mandal, enter the business world by launching their own start-up company. Naveen becomes angry for not getting a project from the company in which he works, gets drunk and resigns. He faces a dilemma when he is offered a position in a branch office located in Beijing. He leaves for the airport but upon reaching there he realizes that he is not destined for routine jobs. At the same time, he receives news of his "B-Plan" reaching the final of the NASSCOM start-up conclave. This sets off a chain of events in which the four rediscover what they really want in life, and face challenges in getting their start-up idea off the ground. After the release of the first trailer, the show's premise was compared to that of the American TV show Silicon Valley. However, when the pilot premiered, viewers realized this was not the case. Arunabh Kumar, founder and CEO of The Viral Fever, told The Huffington Post that if there's an American TV show that did inspire Pitchers - not in content but in spirit - it is the HBO drama Entourage about a young Hollywood star on the rise.
Cast
Naveen Kasturia as Naveen Bansal, the one who has the start-up idea and earlier working as Executive regional manager at MOKART
Jitendra Kumar as Jitendra "Jitu" Maheshwari, who was working at Infocrat technologies company as a senior developer
Arunabh Kumar as Yogendra Kumar "Yogi" Pandey, who was probably operational incharge at EliteCore technologies
There are only five episodes in one season and no other season has been produced. later they have been dubbed into tamil on October 6, 2017 and last episode was on 3 November 2017 which is released in TVF play app and even on TVF Machi youtube channel which is official TVF's tamil channel
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Reception
TVF Pitchers has been well received by the internet audience. The first episode has more than 7.7 million views and 251k views for TAMIL version The series, hosted on TVF's official YouTube channel, has gathered over 1 million views for each episode. TVF Pitchers has 9.2/10 rating on IMDB 40th on the website's Top Rated TV.
