For Netflix India’s top ten films list, this week’s top-ranked title is Nani’s psychological romantic movie ‘Shyam Singha Roy’ based on the theme of reincarnation. While Ayushmann Khurrana and Vaani Kapoor starrer romantic drama ‘Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui’ and the widely acclaimed superhero origin movie Minnal Murali’s have slipped to the third and sixth spots, respectively.
On the Netflix top-ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has been retained by the psychological thriller show ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein’ followed by Jason Bateman and Laura Linney starrer crime drama ‘Ozark’ and thriller web series ‘Aranyak’ starring Raveena Tandon and Parambrata Chatterjee in the lead roles.
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. Don’t Look Up
The movie follows two astronomers (played by Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence) who make a shocking discovery about an approaching comet on its way to a devastating collision with Earth in just six months. Their attempt to warn the social media-obsessed world through a media tour ostensibly forms the rest of the film’s plot. The film features an ensemble cast that also includes Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, and Timothee Chalamet.
9. Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo
The Allu Arjun starrer action-drama movie was recently in the news for the previously planned theatrical re-release of the Hindi-dubbed version of the film after the phenomenal success of ‘Pushpa: The Rise’. ‘Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo’ follows the story of Bantu, whose life takes a sharp turn after he becomes aware that his real biological father is not the hard-hearted man, he is living with but a millionaire business tycoon.
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. Munich: The Edge of War
Based on the bestselling novel ‘Munich’ by Robert Harris, the historical drama movie follows the story of a British civil servant Hugh Legat (played by George MacKay), and his friend from Oxford Paul von Hartmann (Jannis Niewöhner), who now works for the German government. They travel to the 1938 Munich conference and find themselves in a race to expose a Nazi secret as Hitler prepares to invade Czechoslovakia.
6. Minnal Murali
Set during the 1990s period, it follows the superhero origin story of an ordinary but good-hearted man named Jaison (played by Tovino Thomas), a small-town tailor from the state of Kerala. One day, Jaison is struck by a bolt of lightning (in a rare astronomical event) which bestows him special powers like super speed, extraordinary strength, and extreme agility. How Jaison embraces his powers to become a local superhero and assumes the mantle of Minnal Murali to fight his evil counterpart, forms the rest of the film’s plot.
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spide-Verse’ came out in 2018 and broke new ground for the superhero animated films genre. The adeptly executed story followed a teenage Spider-Man, who teams up with multiple spider-powered superheroes from other universes to fight a common enemy – the supervillain Kingpin. It’s regarded by a large segment of audiences as one of the best Spiderman movies ever made.
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. Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui
‘Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui’ 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, whose directorial prowess we have already seen in films like ‘Kai Po Che’, ‘Rock On’.
2. The Royal Treatment
The film features actress-singer Laura Marano as an upright Manhattan-based hairdresser Izzy (Isabelle), who gets a golden chance to work at the royal wedding of the duty-bound Prince Thomas (played by Mena Massoud). Things get more interesting when the two get attracted to each other.
1. 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.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. Emily in Paris
In a pleasant surprise for Chicago-based marketing executive Emily, she gets her dream job in Paris and relocates. She is assigned to redesign a French marketing company’s social media strategy from an American perspective. As she deals with a culture clash in a new country, she simultaneously balances her workplace along with her personal life.
9. The Witcher
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’ second season started streaming from 17th December.
8. Archive 81
Inspired by the podcast of the same name, ‘Archive 81’ is a mystery horror series that narrates the story of an archivist who is assigned the task of reconstructing damaged videotapes which were the works of a missing filmmaker, and how he gets embroiled in an ominous cult.
7. 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.
6. 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. Volume-1 part-5 of the show began streaming on Netflix from 3rd September while the second volume came out on 3rd December.
5. Too Hot to Handle
It’s a reality dating TV show that involves ten commitment-phobic singles who are brought together in a house for a period of four weeks. In order to win the prize money, they must remain abstinent during their time spent together. The show’s third season commenced streaming on Netflix from 19th January.
4. 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. Despite being quite brutal and repulsive, it’s being called by many a compelling watch. The show’s actor O Yeong-su had won the Golden Globes award for the best supporting actor category.
3. 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.
2. Ozark
The crime drama show features Jason Bateman as a Chicago-based financial advisor and also stars Laura Linney as Bateman’s wife. The family with kids relocates to the Ozarks in Missouri for money laundering activities. The fourth season of the Primetime Emmy award-winning show has been divided into two parts of seven episodes each and the first part started streaming from 21st January.
1. Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein
It’s a psychological thriller show that revolves around a small-town man (Tahir Raj Bhasin) with simple ambitions. But his life goes haywire when the daughter (Anchal Singh) of a powerful politician (Saurabh Shukla) falls in love with him and is hellbent on ‘acquiring’ at any cost. His desperate attempt to regain control over his own life and to reunite with his love interest (Shweta Tripathi) forms the show’s underlying story.
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