For Netflix India’s top ten films list, the top-ranked title has been bagged by the political action thriller movie ‘GodFather’ starring Chiranjeevi in the lead role. While on the second and the third spots of the Netflix list are the crime thriller movie ‘Dhokha – Round D Corner’ and the Rajkummar Rao starrer mystery thriller ‘Monica, O My Darling’.
On the Netflix top ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has been bagged by the German sci-fi mystery series ‘1899’ followed by the Spanish drama thriller ‘Elite’ and the popular historical drama series ‘The Crown’.
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. Bullet Train
Helmed by David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Hobbs & Shaw), the action-comedy movie is based on Japanese author Kotaro Isaka’s book ‘Maria Beetle’. The film’s underlying premise revolves around five assassins traveling on a Japanese bullet train and how their individual missions intersect in the high-speed adventure. Brad Pitt essays the role of an experienced but unlucky mercenary.
9. The Ghost (Hindi)
The action thriller movie features veteran actor Nagarjuna as a daredevil Interpol field agent aka The Ghost suffering from PTSD, who comes back from retirement to protect his loved ones. The film also features Sonal Chauhan and Gul Panag in important roles.
8. Enola Holmes 2
It’s a sequel to the 2020 film ‘Enola Holmes’ and features Millie Bobby Brown in the lead role alongside Henry Cavill in the role of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and the brother of the film’s titular protagonist. The sequel focuses on Enola Holmes’ first official case: finding the missing sister of an impoverished girl and how she tries to solve it with the help of her friends and her genius brother Sherlock.
7. Drishyam
Helmed by Nishikant Kamat, the mystery thriller features Ajay Devgn as Vijay Salgaonkar – a 4th-grade pass ordinary but street-smart cable network owner and a diehard movie buff. His life takes a drastic turn when his family is accused by the police of the suspected murder of the missing son of a senior cop (Tabu). How the desperate father hatches a brilliant plan to save his family, forms the film’s underlying premise.
6. Slumberland
Helmed by Francis Lawrence, the fantasy-adventure movie is based on American cartoonist Winsor McCay’s classic comic book series titled ‘Little Nemo in Slumberland’. The film’s underlying plot revolves around a young hero Nemo (played by Marlow Barkley), who is guided by an eccentric outlaw Flip (played by Jason Momoa) through a secret dream world.
5. Kumari
The mythological horror thriller movie features Aishwarya Lekshmi in the titular role of Kumari, who gets married into an affluent family in a far-off place. She relocates to her husband Dhruvan’s (Shine Tom Chacko) ancestral house in a cursed land ruled by superstition and tradition.
4. GodFather (Hindi)
The political action thriller movie features veteran actor Chiranjeevi as the titular protagonist GodFather aka Brahma, who rises amidst extreme circumstances after the death of a senior political leader. Amidst the ruthless succession battle, he must face some corrupt elements with the help of his trusted aide Masoom Bhai (Salman Khan).
3. Monica, O My Darling
Directed by Vasan Bala, the mystery thriller movie features Rajkummar Rao as a robotics expert who gets involved in a passionate affair but eventually ends up being blackmailed. Desperate to get out of the mess, he teams up with a bunch of unlikely allies and intends to execute the perfect murder. The movie also features Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, and Sikander Kher, etc. in important roles.
2. Dhokha – Round D Corner
The crime thriller movie helmed by Kookie Gulati follows the story of a terrorist who breaks into the house of a married couple. The wife, who is suffering from a personality disorder, is taken hostage, and the incident brings forth a series of lies and secrets. The film features Madhavan, Khushali Kumar, Aparshakti Khurana, and Darshan Kumar, amongst others.
1. GodFather
The political action thriller movie features veteran actor Chiranjeevi as the titular protagonist GodFather aka Brahma, who rises amidst extreme circumstances after the death of a senior political leader. Amidst the ruthless succession battle, he must face some corrupt elements with the help of his trusted aide Masoom Bhai (Salman Khan).
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. One of Us Is Lying
Based on a 2017 novel of the same name, the show revolves around five high school students Simon, Addy, Cooper, Bronwyn, and Nate, who are under detention. Things take an interesting turn when Simon dies under mysterious circumstances and the remaining four become prime suspects.
9. Extraordinary Attorney Woo
The South Korean series follows the story of a young lawyer Woo Young-woo (played by Park Eun-bin), who is on the autism spectrum but is blessed with high IQ and a razor-sharp memory. The plot revolves around how she deals with life inside the courtroom and the law firm she works for while also dealing with various challenges that life throws at her.
8. Stranger Things
The initial story, set in the 1980s, revolves around a young boy’s disappearance and the ensuing investigation by his mother, police chief, and his friends amidst supernatural events. The sci-fi horror series (latest season) follows the aftereffects of the devastating Battle of Starcourt at the Hawkins town in Indiana. The show’s young protagonists are now living separately and trying to move on in their lives. At this juncture, a long-buried, supernatural threat that connects everything, emerges on Earth and the Upside Down.
7. 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.
6. Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega
‘Jamtara’ is set in the Jamtara region of the Eastern Indian State of Jharkhand. The premise is about a group of small-town and ambitious youngsters led by the protagonists Rocky (Anshuman Pushkar) and Sunny (Sparsh Shrivastava) who are the brains behind a profitable social engineering phishing operation.
5. Manifest
The mystery sci-fi series revolves around a group of passengers who somehow safely land after a turbulent flight. However, they soon learn that five years have already passed mysteriously in such a short time and the world has moved on after assuming that they were gone forever. They soon realize that their second chance is meant for something greater.
4. Mismatched
An adaptation of Sandhya Menon’s bestseller, ‘When Dimple Met Rishi’, the series features Rohit Saraf and Prajakta Koli as two teens who become friends during a summer program.
3. The Crown
The big-budget historical drama television series revolves around the royal family and chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth-II from the year of her wedding until modern times. The show touches upon several events including the Suez crisis, Prince Edward’s birth, the tenures of various Prime Ministers, and Prince Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana, etc.
2. Elite
It’s a Spanish drama thriller show that is set amidst the backdrop of an elite school called Las Encinas in Spain. Narrated in two timelines, the show’s plot revolves around the glaring disparities between the school’s super affluent students and their working-class teenage counterparts.
1. 1899
Set in the year 1899 and from the makers of ‘Dark’, the eight-episode German mystery sci-fi series revolves around a group of European immigrants travelling aboard a steamship from London to New York. Their journey takes a mind-boggling and an incredibly adventurous turn after they encounter another mysterious ship out on the open sea.
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