Postcards

Postcards is a 2024 Nigerian-Indian drama series created by Hamisha Daryani Ahuja and released on Netflix on May 3, 2024. Spanning six episodes and filmed across Lagos and Mumbai, it is built as a cross-cultural bridge between Nollywood and the Indian film world, following four Nigerians whose separate journeys all lead them to India. The anthology-style structure lets each thread breathe on its own while the larger picture asks how distance, illness, ambition, and love reshape the people who travel far from everything familiar.

At the heart of the series is Bunmi, a widow who travels to Mumbai for medical treatment and finds the trip becoming a reckoning with her estranged son Yemi, who has reinvented himself as a dancer in the city. Around them, other lives intersect: a marriage strained by the question of starting a family, a doctor caught between duty and feeling, and an older patriarch whose presence anchors the Indian side of the story. The show moves between warmth and melancholy, treating its heavier themes of grief, fertility, and reconciliation with restraint rather than melodrama.

Created and directed by Hamisha Daryani Ahuja, who previously brought Nollywood and Bollywood together on the feature Namaste Wahala, Postcards leans on an ensemble drawn from both industries, pairing veteran Nigerian performers with established Indian actors. Critical response was mixed to negative, with reviewers praising the ambition and visual sweep of the Lagos-to-Mumbai premise while questioning how fully the emotional threads paid off. Even so, it ranked among the most-watched Nollywood titles in Nigeria in 2024 and stands as a notable experiment in pan-continental storytelling. Please note this overview is AI-authored and pending editorial fact-check.