For Netflix India’s top ten films list, this week’s top-ranked title is once again bagged by Taapsee Pannu and Tahir Raj Bhasin’s ‘Looop Lapeta’. In the second place is the rom-com sequel film ‘Tall Girl 2’. While the Spanish movie ‘Through My Window’ is placed in the third spot.
On the Netflix top ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has again been secured by the South Korean zombie-horror show ‘All of Us Are Dead’. In the second place is the investigative miniseries ‘Inventing Anna’. And the third spot is held by the Mexican thriller ‘Dark Desire’.
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. 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’.
9. 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.
8. 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.
7. The Privilege
It’s a German horror mystery movie that revolves around an affluent teenager and his group of wealthy friends studying at an elite school and their experience with supernatural phenomena while unearthing a conspiracy.
6. Love and Leashes
Helmed by Park Hyun-jin, ‘Love and Leashes’ is a South Korean rom-com that focuses on a bizarre contractual relationship between two co-workers Ji-hoo and Ji-woo.
5. 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.
4. 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.
3. 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?
2. Tall Girl 2
It’s the sequel to the 2019 rom-com movie ‘Tall Girl’. The film’s plotline revolves around a 6-feet plus tall girl named Jodi Kreyman (played by Ava Michelle) and takes place after the events of the parent film. It would follow another year of high school for a now confident Jodi as she deals with her nervousness about her newfound insecurities.
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. 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.
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. Crash Landing on You
When a famous businesswoman from South Korea makes an emergency landing into the North Korean territory after a paragliding accident, a respectable Military Captain decides to protect her and falls in love with her.
7. 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.
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. 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.
3. 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.
2. Inventing Anna
The miniseries is inspired by an article by Jessica Pressler which was published in America’s New York magazine. It follows a journalist’s investigation into a woman named Anna Delvey, who was able to manipulate New York’s affluent class into believing that she is a German heiress.
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.