For Netflix India’s top ten films list, the top-ranked title has been bagged by Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar starrer comedy-drama ‘Badhaai Do’.
In the second place is the recently released time-travel based film ‘The Adam Project’. While the third spot on the coveted Netflix list is held by last week’s surprise entrant ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’.
On the Netflix top ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has been bagged by the mystery web series ‘The Fame Game’ starring Madhuri Dixit. And the Formula One racing-based show ‘Formula One: Drive to Survive’ currently holds second place on the Netflix top TV shows list.
On the third place of the Netflix top TV shows list is the historical fiction show ‘The Last Kingdom’. 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. The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure
The South Korean period adventure movie follows a group of brave pirates and bandits who must solve the clues and outwit their military rivals in order to be the first to find the lost royal treasure at sea.
9. Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui
The movie 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 (Director – ‘Kai Po Che’, ‘Rock On’).
8. 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).
7. Against The Ice
Based on the true story of Denmark’s 1909 expedition, the survival movie features ‘Game of Thrones’ actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the role of Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, who is accompanied by an inexperienced crew member Iver Iverson (Joe Cole) in a dangerous mission to find a lost map in the ice-covered Greenland.
6. 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.
5. The Weekend Away
In this mystery thriller movie, a seemingly perfect weekend away soon turns into a woman’s worst nightmare when her best friend disappears during her leisure trip to Croatia. Things get worse for her when it is discovered that her friend has been murdered and she becomes the primary suspect. Her desperate attempts to clear her name and get back home form the rest of the film’s plot.
4. 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.
3. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Helmed by Andy Serkis, the film is the sequel to the 2018 superhero movie ‘Venom’. Tom Hardy reprises his role as the disgraced investigative journalist Eddie Brock/Venom who attempts to revive his career by interviewing the psychotic serial killer Cletus Kasady (played by Woody Harrelson), who eventually transforms into the titular supervillain called Carnage.
2. The Adam Project
‘The Adam Project’ follows the story of a 12-year-old father-less boy named Adam Reed (Walker Scobell) who finds an injured pilot (Ryan Reynolds), an older version of himself who has crash-landed to 2022 by time-traveling from the future. The two Adam Reeds team up to find their father (played by Mark Ruffalo) in the past, in order to save the future. The film also features Jennifer Garner and Zoe Saldana in important roles.
1. Badhaai Do
Helmed by Harshvardhan Kulkarni, the comedy-drama film revolves around a policeman Shardul Thakur (Rajkummar Rao), and a physical education teacher Sumi Singh (Bhumi Pednekar), and their marriage of convenience to hide their sexual orientation. But things do not go as smoothly as they had expected.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. Forecasting Love and Weather
The South Korean series is set in Korea’s national meteorological service KMA and follows the romantic relationship between a hard-working forecaster and her rather unconventional colleague.
9. Business Proposal
The South Korean show follows the story of a woman named Shin Ha-ri, who goes out on a blind date instead of her unwilling friend. However, by a twist of fate, the prospective partner she meets turns out to be the CEO of the company where she works.
8. Pieces of Her
Based on Karin Slaughter’s 2018 novel of the same name, ‘Pieces of Her’ revolves around how a mother-daughter relationship takes a dramatic turn when the mother’s (Toni Collette) mysterious past comes to the fore after a violent shoot-out at their small-town local diner.
7. Vikings: Valhalla
It’s a sequel to History channel’s historical drama series ‘Vikings’ and is set a hundred years after the show. Amidst escalating conflict between Vikings and English royals, the story follows the daredevil adventures of renowned Vikings Leif Erikson, Freydís Eiríksdóttir, and Harald Hardrada, and the Norman King William the Conqueror.
6. Twenty Five Twenty One
Set mainly in the year 1998, the show’s plot revolves around how the South Korean financial crisis affected the lives of a young fencing prodigy Na Hee Do (played by Kim So-hyun) and a hard-working man named Baek Yi Jin (Nam Joo-hyuk), whose father’s business has become bankrupt.
5. 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.
4. 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.
3. The Last Kingdom
The fifth and final season of the historical fiction show revolves around King Edward’s endeavors to unite the Saxon kingdoms amidst impending threats by a Saxon rebellion and a Danish invasion. Who would become the next ruler: Edward’s illegitimate son Aethelstan or Lord Aethelhelm’s grandson Aelfweard?
2. Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Set amidst the backdrop of the highly competitive world of Formula One racing, the show features a behind-the-scenes look at the stakeholders of the high-octane game – drivers, managers, and team owners. The fourth season is be based on the 2021 Formula One World Championship and would focus on the battle between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.
1. The Fame Game
The mystery drama web series features real-life actress Madhuri Dixit as a reel-life superstar Anamika Anand, a mother of two who suddenly disappears leaving no apparent leads. Thereafter, some uncomfortable and unknown truths are revealed during the course of the police investigation. The show also features Sanjay Kapoor and Manav Kaul in important roles.