For Netflix India’s top ten films list, the top-ranked title has been bagged by Sidharth Malhotra starrer spy thriller movie ‘Mission Majnu’ followed by Shaji Kailas’s crime thriller ‘Kaapa’ and the post-apocalyptic Korean film ‘Jung_E’.
On the Netflix top ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has been bagged by the massively popular horror comedy series ‘Wednesday’. While on the second and the third spots of the Netflix list are the Israeli series ‘Fauda’ and ‘Trial By Fire’, a web series based on the tragic 1997 Uphaar Cinema fire incident, respectively.
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. Gatta Kusthi
The sports dramedy movie features Vishnu Vishal as a male chauvinist named Veera, who marries a wrestling champion Keerthi (Aishwarya Lekshmi). But Veera’s bride is exactly the opposite of what he expected her to be.
9. Mister Mummy
Directed by Shaad Ali, the comedy movie revolves around a couple Amol and Guglu (played by Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh) with disparate viewpoints about children, whose lives take an interesting turn after both somehow become pregnant.
8. Doctor G
Set amidst the backdrop of a medical college campus in Bhopal, the social comedy film features Ayushmann Khurrana as Dr. Uday Gupta, the only male student who unwillingly ends up in the gynaecology department, despite his penchant for orthopaedics. Directed by Anubhuti Kashyap (Afsos), the movie also features Rakul Preet Singh, Shefali Shah, and Sheeba Chaddha.
7. RRR (Hindi)
Helmed by S.S Rajamouli, the period action movie ‘RRR’ features Ram Charan and Jr.NTR in the lead roles and Ajay Devgn, and Alia Bhatt in pivotal roles. The film is a fictional tale set in the 1920s that revolves around two legendary Indian revolutionaries namely Alluri Sitarama Raju (played by Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (played by Jr. NTR).
6. Kantara (Hindi)
The man vs nature centric film has been written and directed by and features actor-filmmaker Rishab Shetty. The film is set in the fictional village of Kantara and follows the story of a hot-headed henchman named Shiva (Rishab Shetty). When a forest officer Murali (Kishore) tries to stop the local superstitions in the village and save the forest from the residents, Shiva locks horns with Murali with support from his landlord (Achyuth Kumar).
5. The Croods: A New Age
The animated adventure movie follows the titular prehistoric Crood family and how they find a walled-in paradise as their new home. But they must come to terms with a more evolved family – the Bettermans. Soon, the two families must set aside their differences to face a bigger threat.
4. Varalaru Mukkiyam
Directed by Santhosh, the romantic drama movie stars Jiiva in the role of a man who falls in love with a neighbourhood girl. But the story takes an interesting turn after the girl’s sister falls for him.
3. Jung_E
Set in the post-apocalyptic and uninhabitable Earth in the year 2194, the Korean movie follows an AI researcher Seohyun, who clones the brain of her own mother and former legendary soldier called Jung_E. Now, the new robot mercenary might be the last chance to end the civil war.
2. Kaapa
Helmed by Shaji Kailas, the crime thriller movie follows a married couple (Asif Ali and Anna Ben), whose lives take a drastic turn when the wife’s name appears in the KAAPA list. The husband seeks the help of a formidable gangster Kotta Madhu (Prithviraj Sukumaran) for his wife’s safety.
1. Mission Majnu
Helmed by Shantanu Bagchi and set in the 1970s period, it’s a spy thriller movie that revolves around an undercover R&AW field agent Amandeep Singh (Sidharth Malhotra), who must expose a secret nuclear weapons operation right in the middle of Pakistan. It also features Rashmika Mandanna as the protagonist’s love interest.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
The animated series follows the adventures of a giant Panda Po (voiced by Jack Black), who teams up with a reputed English knight Wandering Blade in order to acquire four magical weapons, to stop a pair of infamous weasels and save the world from destruction.
9. Alice in Borderland
The Japanese sci-fi thriller series follows a jobless gamer, who is sent to another dimension – a parallel and desolate Tokyo where he and his allies must compete in a sadistic game of survival. He also meets a young woman and together they set out to unearth the mystery.
8. Kaleidoscope
The non-linear heist drama series features ‘Breaking Bad’ actor Giancarlo Esposito in the role of a master thief, who must overcome betrayal and greed to execute a massive heist of a whopping $7 billion. The interesting thing about the eight-episode show is that it can be watched in any order.
7. Shahmaran
The Turkish fantasy drama series follows the story of a young woman who visits Adana for a lecture. That’s when she decides to finally come face to face with her grandfather and ask him why he left her grandmother years back. But soon she finds herself in the midst of an ancient Turkish legend.
6. 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.
5. Khakee: The Bihar Chapter
Neeraj Pandey’s crime action-drama series revolves around the violent face-off between an upright super-cop and a dreaded criminal amidst the backdrop of chaos, violent and rampant corruption. It features an ensemble cast that includes Karan Tacker, Avinash Tiwari, Abhimanyu Singh, Ravi Kishan, Ashutosh Rana, and Anup Soni, amongst others.
4. Ginny & Georgia
The ten-part comedy drama series revolves around a fifteen-year-old teenager named Ginny (Antonia Gentry), who is portrayed as more sensible and mature than her dynamic mother Georgia (Brianne Howey).
3. Trial By Fire
The web series is based on the tragic Uphaar Cinema fire incident which happened in June 1997 in a posh South Delhi area. The story follows Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy (played by Rajshri Deshpande and Abhay Deol), whose two children die in the incident. The series focuses on how the parents fight for the justice of their kids for around twenty-four long years.
2. Fauda
Set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Israeli series features Lior Raz in the lead role of Doron, a daredevil agent of the elite Israel Defence Force unit and his dangerous missions to protect his country.
1. Wednesday
The horror comedy series focuses on The Addams Family character named Wednesday Addams (played by Jenna Ortega). The story is about how the titular protagonist, a gothic teenage girl, hones her psychic abilities and attempts to investigate a series of brutal killings.
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