This week, Netflix India’s top ten films and series list features some interesting additions, omissions, and changes in ranks. For Netflix’s top ten films list, the top spot this week is held by the recently released action-comedy film ‘Red Notice’ starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot.
A new Indian movie title addition this week is that of the Telugu romantic action movie ‘Maha Samudram’. While last week’s top-ranker ‘Meenakshi Sundareshwar’ is down to second place this week.
On the Netflix top-ten TV shows front, the South Korean show that is being loved by fans across the world, has once again unsurprisingly bagged the coveted top spot. Yes, you guessed it right. The show is none other than ‘Squid Game’.
Another repeat inclusion is that of ‘Narcos Mexico’, whose third and final season started streaming on Netflix from 5th November. Moreover, the evergreen sitcom show ‘Friends’ has yet again managed to find a place on this week’s Netflix top ten TV shows list.
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. Doctor (Telugu)
The Telugu version of the Tamil film Doctor has again made it to the Netflix list. Doctor is a black comedy thriller movie that revolves around a pragmatic military doctor (Sivakarthikeyan) who gets involved in a kidnapping case of the niece of his fiancée. How he teams up with the family members and uses his intellect to track down the kidnappers to rescue the girl, forms the rest of the film’s plot.
It’s a prequel to the zombie heist film ‘Army of the Dead’ helmed by Zack Snyder. The film has been directed by Matthias Schweighöfer, who also reprises his role as the German safecracker Ludwig Dieter from the parent film, but this time as the film’s lead actor. The prequel is set six years before the events of ‘Army of the Dead’ and amidst the onset of the zombie apocalypse. In the film, Ludwig, a bank teller, is assigned a mission by a mysterious woman, to execute a virtually impossible heist.
8. The Unholy
Co-produced by ‘Evil Dead’ director Sam Raimi, it’s a supernatural horror movie that follows a disgraced journalist who investigates the mysterious case of a young deaf-mute girl’s newfound miraculous ability but gets more than what he had bargained for.
7. Doctor (Tamil)
It’s a black comedy thriller movie that revolves around a pragmatic military doctor (Sivakarthikeyan) who gets involved in a kidnapping case of the niece of his fiancée. How he teams up with the family members and uses his intellect to track down the kidnappers to rescue the girl forms the rest of the film’s plot.
The film’s name is derived from George Michael’s hit song of the same name. The plot revolves around an aspiring singer (Emilia Clarke), who works in a London-based Christmas store. Her life takes an interesting turn when she meets an enigmatic man called Tom and she begins to fall in love with him.
5. Love Hard
It’s a romantic comedy film that follows a Los Angeles-based writer who falls in love with a man through a dating app and decides to make a surprise visit to the East Coast town where he lives but finds out that she has been deceived.
Based on a video game of the same name, ‘Monster Hunter’ is helmed by ‘Resident Evil’ director Paul W. S. Anderson and stars his wife and actress Milla Jovovich as an Army Ranger who is transported to an alternate universe infested with powerful creatures.
3. Maha Samudram (Telugu)
It’s a romantic action movie starring Sharwanand, Siddharth, Aditi Rao Hydari, and Anu Emmanuel. Helmed by Ajay Bhupathi and set in Vishakhapatnam, the film’s plotline revolves around two close friends with disparate ideologies and how their lives change after their encounter with a dreaded gangster.
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.
1. 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). The movie has recently bagged the honors of becoming the biggest opening day film on Netflix.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. The Blacklist
The ninth season of the crime thriller show has recently started streaming. The show centers around a mastermind criminal Raymond Reddington (played by James Spader) who turns himself in, to the FBI and has an affinity with FBI profiler Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone)
9. Money Heist
The much-admired show is back again on the top series Netflix list. The show comes recommended by Binged bureau and we have rated it a solid 7.5/10. ‘Bigger stakes, bigger thrills & even bigger cliffhangers’ is our review’s bottom-line. Volume-1 part-5 of the show began streaming on Netflix from 3rd September while the second volume will release on 3rd December.
8. Sex/Life
The show follows an affluent housewife and mother of two children whose married life suddenly takes an interesting turn when her former boyfriend gets back into her life.
7. 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.
6. You
On the sixth place of the Netflix top ten series list is the romantic psychological thriller ‘You’. The series follows a dangerously obsessed bookstore manager who can go to any lengths for a romantic relationship with the women he falls for. The third season of the show started streaming on Netflix from 15th October.
5. Locke & Key
The third spot this week is bagged by ‘Locke & Key’. It’s a supernatural mystery-horror show that revolves around the three Locke siblings who relocate to their ancestral home along with their mother after the mysterious death of their father. They soon find many magical keys inside the house which they think are somehow related to their father’s death. The second season of the popular show started streaming on Netflix on 22nd October. The show has currently got an IMDb rating of 7.4.
4. The Good Doctor
The fifth season of the engaging medical drama ‘The Good Doctor’ recently commenced streaming on the SonyLIV platform. The plot revolves around Shaun Murphy – an autistic surgical resident with savant syndrome as he relocates to a prestigious California-based hospital.
3. Narcos Mexico
The third and final installment of ‘Narcos: Mexico’ is ostensibly set in the 1990s and revolves around the war that breaks out after the fall of the Guadalajara Cartel empire headed by Felix. The third season witnesses the emergence of new and independent cartels and their fight for survival.
2. Call My Agent: Bollywood
On the second place of the Netflix top ten series list is ‘Call My Agent: Bollywood’. The Netflix series is an Indian adaptation of the French series ‘Dix Pour Cent’. The show revolves around four talent agents (played by Aahana Kumra, Rajat Kapoor, Soni Razdan, and Ayush Mehra) and their endeavor to save the agency after the founder’s untimely demise.
1. 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. The show is currently rated 8.1/10 on IMDb and has a 94% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 63 ratings. Despite being quite brutal and repulsive, it’s being called by many a compelling watch. Not for the weak of heart though.
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