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 this week is once again retained by the Akshay Kumar starrer cop actioner ‘Sooryavanshi’ helmed by blockbuster filmmaker Rohit Shetty.
On the second place is the Hindi version of Dulquer Salmaan starrer crime thriller ‘Kurup’. Not just that, the film’s Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil versions have all found a spot on the Netflix top ten films list.
Moreover, as Tom Holland’s highly anticipated superhero movie ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is busy breaking records at the Indian box office, its prequels ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ and ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ are also present on the Netflix list.
On the Netflix top-ten TV shows front, fantasy drama show ‘The Witcher’ has unsurprisingly topped the Netflix list in India. And last week’s topper ‘Aranyak’ now holds the second spot. And in third place on the Netflix top ten series list is 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. Dhamaka
Directed by Ram Madhvani (Aarya, Neerja), the film follows a disgraced, washed-out journalist Arjun Pathak (played by Kartik Aaryan) who has been demoted to a radio jockey. The once hotshot anchor sees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get the promotion he wants, after he receives a shocking call from a grudge-bearing, vengeful person on his radio show. But he gets more than what he had bargained for, with (literally) explosive consequences.
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. 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.
7. Don’t Breathe 2
It’s a sequel to the riveting home invasion horror thriller movie ‘Don’t Breathe’ that came out in the year 2016. In the film, Stephen Lang reprises his role as the blind Navy SEAL veteran and is set six years after the events of the parent film. The central character now lives with an 11-year-old orphan girl. Tables turn when the girl is taken away by a gang and the blind man is the only hope for the girl.
6. Kurup (Tamil)
This is the Tamil 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.
5. Kurup (Telugu)
This is the Telugu 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.
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. 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.
2. 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.
1. 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.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. 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.
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. 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.
7. Titans
This DC Comics-based superhero show follows how Batman’s former vigilante sidekick Dick Grayson assembles a team of troubled youngsters and together they fight against the evil forces and other dangers.
6. Lost in Space
The sci-fi series follows the adventures of the Robinson family, whose interstellar spacecraft crash lands into a habitable alien planet and how they deal with the hidden dangers and their attempt to survive and escape the planet from the show’s basic plotline.
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. The show is currently rated 8.1/10 on IMDb and has a 94% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 70 ratings. Despite being quite brutal and repulsive, it’s being called by many a compelling watch. Not for the weak of heart though.
4. 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.
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. The Witcher
The first season of 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 started streaming from 17th December.
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