For Netflix India’s top ten films list, this week’s top-ranked title is Taapsee Pannu and Tahir Raj Bhasin’s ‘Looop Lapeta’. In the second place is a new entrant – a Spanish film ‘Through My Window’ followed by Nani’s psychological romantic movie ‘Shyam Singha Roy’ which is based on the theme of reincarnation.
On the Netflix top ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has once again been bagged by the South Korean zombie-horror show ‘All of Us Are Dead’. In the second place is the Mexican thriller ‘Dark Desire’. And the third spot has been held by the well-executed psychological thriller show ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein’.
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. Escape Room
Lured with a tempting reward, six strangers accept a mysterious invitation to participate in a sadistic game of life and death. They realize that they must use their wits and face their darkest secrets in order to survive the maze of deadly escape rooms.
9. 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.
8. Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui
‘Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui’ features Ayushmann Khurrana and Vaani Kapoor in the lead roles of a fitness coach and a Zumba instructor respectively. The plot starts off as a ‘regular boy meets a girl and falls in love’ story, however, things take a different turn after a surprising revelation is made that could affect their relationship. The film has been helmed by Abhishek Kapoor, whose directorial prowess we have already seen in films like ‘Kai Po Che’, ‘Rock On’.
7. Executive Decision
‘Executive Decision’ was a star-studded 90s action film with an ensemble cast including the likes of Kurt Russel, Steven Seagal, and Halle Berry. The film’s plotline revolves around how a U.S. Army analyst and a US Special Forces person team up to foil a nefarious terrorists’ plan onboard a plane from Greece to Washington, D.C.
6. 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.
5. The Tinder Swindler
‘The Tinder Swindler’ follows the story of three female victims of online dating who are manipulated by a scamster posing as a billionaire businessman and how the group of swindled women decides to avenge their betrayals.
4. Dolittle
The fantasy adventure film features ‘Iron Man’ actor Robert Downey Jr. in the titular role of Dr. Dolittle, an eccentric veterinarian who must come out of his reclusive life and undertake an adventurous journey to a mysterious island in order to find a cure for a dying young queen.
3. Shyam Singha Roy
It’s a psychological period romantic drama movie that revolves around the intriguing concept of reincarnation. The film features Nani in a double role. One story is set in modern-day Hyderabad where he plays an aspiring film director, and the other story is set in 1970s Bengal where he is portrayed as a revolutionary writer called Shyam Singha Roy. How these two timelines relate to each other forms the film’s crux.
2. Through My Window
The Spanish romantic comedy film is about a girl named Raquel who is madly in love with her next-door neighbor but hasn’t spoken with him. She attempts to make him fall in love with her. Will her handsome neighbor reciprocate her love?
1. Looop Lapeta
‘Looop Lapeta’ is an official Hindi language remake of the high concept German thriller film ‘Run Lola Run’ (1998). The film revolves around a woman named Savi (Taapsee Pannu) and her desperate attempts to get hold of Rs. 50 lakhs in order to save her love interest Satya (Tahir Raj Bhasin) from getting into serious trouble. In a race against time, will Savi be able to get the money and save her boyfriend Satya?
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. In From the Cold
It’s a science fiction thriller show that revolves around a single mother and a former Russian super-spy living in New Jersey who must now confront her mysterious past after the authorities come to know about her long-buried secret.
9. 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.
8. Sweet Magnolias
The romantic drama series revolves around three old friends from South Carolina namely Maddie, Helen, and Dana, and how they manage their personal relationships, families, and professional lives while supporting each other.
7. Kapil Sharma: I’m Not Done Yet
It’s a stand-up special show featuring India’s king of comedy Kapil Sharma. For the first time, the immensely popular master of laughter will narrate several unknown instances from his own life in, obviously, a humorous way using his trademark amusing style.
6. Money Heist
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. Volume-1 part-5 of the show began streaming on Netflix from 3rd September while the second volume came out on 3rd December.
5. 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. The show’s actor O Yeong-su had won the Golden Globes award for the best supporting actor category.
4. Raising Dion
The show centers around a widowed mother Nicole and her superpowered ten-year son Dion. How she attempts to protect the secret of her son’s superpowers and not being misused while also trying to solve the mystery behind her son’s incredible gift forms the show’s underlying premise.
3. Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein
It’s a psychological thriller show that revolves around a small-town man (Tahir Raj Bhasin) with simple ambitions. But his life goes haywire when the daughter (Anchal Singh) of a powerful politician (Saurabh Shukla) falls in love with him and is hellbent on ‘acquiring’ at any cost. His desperate attempt to regain control over his own life and to reunite with his love interest (Shweta Tripathi) forms the show’s underlying story.
2. Dark Desire
The Mexican thriller web series revolves around a married woman named Alma who is a law school professor by profession. After suspecting her husband of infidelity, she secretly gets romantically involved with Dario, a college student, and a mechanic. However, she gets more than what she bargained for as the events lead to tragic consequences.
1. All of Us Are Dead
Based on the webtoon ‘Now at Our School’, it’s a South Korean show where high school students are forced to fight a zombie outbreak in a battle for survival, in order to avoid becoming the infected creatures themselves. Killing or getting killed are the only two options left for them.
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