Netflix India’s top ten films and series list is back with some interesting additions, omissions, and changes in ranks this week. For Netflix’s top ten films list, the top spot is again bagged by India’s own superhero origin movie ‘Minnal Murali’, which is being widely admired by cinephiles across the country.
While the second place is once again held by the satirical sci-fi flick ‘Don’t Look Up’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in the lead roles. And the third place is bagged by last week’s topper – Akshay Kumar starrer cop actioner ‘Sooryavanshi’ helmed by blockbuster filmmaker Rohit Shetty.
Moreover, as Tom Holland’s highly anticipated superhero movie ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is busy breaking records at the Indian and global box office, earlier Spider-Man movies namely ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ and ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ are also present on this week’s Netflix list.
On the Netflix top-ten TV shows front, the top spot is held by the martial arts drama ‘Cobra Kai’ followed by Raveena Tandon starrer ‘Aranyak’ and then Madhavan and Surveen Chawla’s contemporary comedy-drama ‘Decoupled’.
Here’s the full list of the top ten movies and TV shows on Netflix India this week:
TOP 10 MOVIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. Kurup
Directed by Srinath Rajendran, the Malayalam language biographical crime film features Dulquer Salmaan in the titular role of Sukumara Kurup, who is often described as the longest wanted criminal of Kerala on the run since the year 1984. The mystery thriller movie narrates the fugitive’s early life, how he faked his own death, and the police’s attempt to track the elusive criminal.
9. Spider-Man: Homecoming
This was the first solo Spider-Man movie featuring Tom Holland as the web-slinging superhero. After his adrenalin-fuelled experience as part of the Avengers team in ‘Captain America: Civil War’. In the film, as the name suggests, Peter Parker is back home and tries to resume his normal life. But soon he finds himself in the middle of another dangerous mission that involves a new villain – Vulture (Michael Keaton).
8. Meenakshi Sundareshwar
A romantic comedy that features Sanya Malhotra and Abhimanyu Dassani in the lead roles. The film is based on the struggles of long-distance relationships faced by a newly married couple.
7. Kurup (Hindi)
This is the Hindi language version of the Malayalam film Kurup. Directed by Srinath Rajendran, the biographical crime film features Dulquer Salmaan in the titular role of Sukumara Kurup, who is often described as the longest wanted criminal of Kerala on the run since the year 1984. The mystery thriller movie narrates the fugitive’s early life, how he faked his own death, and the police’s attempt to track the elusive criminal.
6. Red Notice
Helmed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, this action-comedy thriller film features WWE star turned Hollywood actor Dwayne Johnson as an FBI profiler who teams up with a renowned art thief (Ryan Reynolds) to catch a highly elusive criminal (Gal Gadot).
5. Kaaval
This Malayalam action thriller movie revolves around former best friends and business partners namely Thampan (played by Suresh Gopi) and Antony (Renji Panicker) who used to jointly own a sawmill. Many years later, when the latter gets into serious trouble, he asks for Thampan’s help to get out of the mess.
4. Spider-Man: Far from Home
Directed by Jon Watts, the 2019 prequel to the upcoming superhero movie ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ takes place after the emotionally stirring events of ‘Avengers: Endgame’. Peter Parker (Tom Holland) goes on a school summer field trip to Europe where he is unwillingly forced to encounter the Elementals with some ‘help’ from a mysterious person named Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal).
3. Sooryavanshi
Sooryavanshi is the fourth movie that belongs to Rohit Shetty’s cop universe film series comprising Singham and Simmba films. Sooryavanshi revolves around the titular cop DCP Veer Sooryavanshi (Akshay Kumar), who heads the Anti-Terrorism Squad and his attempt to avert a terrorist attack in Mumbai. The film also features Katrina Kaif, Ajay Devgn, Ranveer Singh, and Jackie Shroff in important roles.
2. Don’t Look Up
The movie follows two astronomers (played by Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence) who make a shocking discovery about an approaching comet on its way to a devastating collision with Earth in just six months. Their attempt to warn the social media-obsessed world through a media tour ostensibly forms the rest of the film’s plot. The film features an ensemble cast that also includes Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, and Timothee Chalamet.
1. Minnal Murali
Set during the 1990s period, it follows the superhero origin story of an ordinary but good-hearted man named Jaison (played by Tovino Thomas), a small-town tailor from the state of Kerala. One day, Jaison is struck by a bolt of lightning (in a rare astronomical event) which bestows him special powers like super speed, extraordinary strength, and extreme agility. How Jaison embraces his powers to become a local superhero and assumes the mantle of Minnal Murali to fight his evil counterpart, forms the rest of the film’s plot.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. Friends
‘Friends’ is a universally acclaimed sitcom show that revolves around the six friends played by Jennifer Anniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry living together in New York City and the vicissitudes in their inter-personal relationships formed the show’s central theme. The cult show started airing in the year 1994, spanning ten seasons comprising 236 episodes that were aired over a period of ten years.
9. Daredevil
The widely admired series stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock aka the titular vigilante superhero Daredevil. After being blinded by a childhood accident, the incident heightened his other senses which he uses to fight crime in Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in present-day New York. While during the daytime, he fights injustice as a blind lawyer.
8. The Silent Sea
Based on the series director Choi Hang-Yong‘s own short film ‘The Sea of Tranquility’ (2014), ‘The Silent Sea’ is a South Korean sci-fi show that revolves around a dangerous space exploration mission to the moon to investigate a now-abandoned research station on the moon.
7. Money Heist
Volume-1 part-5 of the show began streaming on Netflix from 3rd September while the second volume came out on 3rd December. The show follows a hostage situation plotline masterminded by an enigmatic genius and his attempt to pull off a virtually impossible heist with the help of his skilled team.
6. Squid Game
The show follows the story of 456 people, who have somewhat failed in their lives, and they are invited to participate in a dangerous survival game called ‘Squid Game’. The winner of the game will take home a huge amount. Despite being quite brutal and repulsive, it’s being called by many a compelling watch. Not for the weak of heart though.
5. Emily in Paris
In a pleasant surprise for Chicago-based marketing executive Emily, she gets her dream job in Paris and relocates. She is assigned to redesign a French marketing company’s social media strategy from an American perspective. As she deals with a culture clash in a new country, she simultaneously balances her workplace along with her personal life. The series commenced streaming on Netflix from 22nd December.
4. The Witcher
The Netflix series ‘The Witcher’ featured the charismatic Henry Cavill as ‘Geralt of Rivia’, who is a professional monster hunter with special powers. His destiny makes him cross paths with Princess Ciri and the sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg as they navigate their way through a corrupt medieval fantasy world called The Continent. ‘The Witcher’ first season started streaming on Netflix in December 2019 while the second season from 17th December.
3. Decoupled
Directed by Hardik Mehta (Roohi) and created by eminent writer Manu Joseph (Serious Men), the comedy-drama show revolves around a contemporary married couple with a child – a writer (played by Madhavan) and a corporate start-up founder (Surveen Chawla) who have fallen out of love and intend to separate.
2. Aranyak
The Netflix crime drama series starring Raveena Tandon, Saurav Khurana, and Ashutosh Rana revolves around the investigation of a missing foreign teenage tourist by two disparate cops which leads them to a mythical killer creature lurking in the forest.
1. Cobra Kai
‘Cobra Kai’ is a martial arts comedy-drama that’s set more than three decades after the events of the cult film ‘The Karate Kid’. While the parent film featured Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso in the role of the underdog protagonist and his adversary was Johnny Lawrence was played by William Zabka. Whereas tables turned in the spin-off web series as the goings-on are narrated from Johnny Lawrence’s point of view in a universe where he becomes the underdog.
The third season of ‘Cobra Kai’ concluded with Johnny Lawrence teaming up for the first time with Daniel LaRusso to jointly train their students for the next All-Valley Karate tournament against their common enemy John Kreese (played by Martin Kove).