For Netflix India’s top ten films list, the top-ranked title has again been bagged by the ‘Escape Room’ sequel titled ‘Escape Room: Tournament of Champions’. ‘Escape Room’ too has made it to the Netflix list.
In the second place is Rohit Shetty’s cop actioner ‘Sooryavanshi’ starring Akshay Kumar in the lead role. While the French action movie ‘Restless’ has secured the third spot on the coveted Netflix list.
On the Netflix top ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has been bagged by the recently released mystery web series ‘The Fame Game’ starring Madhuri Dixit. The show has replaced the last week’s topper ‘All of Us Are Dead’, which now stands in third place.
And on the second place of the Netflix top TV shows list is the historical drama series ‘Vikings: Valhalla’. 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. Escape Room
Lured with a tempting reward, six strangers accept a mysterious invitation to participate in a sadistic game of life and death. They realize that they must use their wits and face their darkest secrets in order to survive the maze of deadly escape rooms.
9. 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).
8. The Tinder Swindler
‘The Tinder Swindler’ follows the story of three female victims of online dating who are manipulated by a scamster posing as a billionaire businessman and how the group of swindled women decides to avenge their betrayals.
7. Rampage
It’s a film adaptation of a video game of the same name. The movie’s plot follows an ex-soldier and primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), who joins hands with a genetic engineer to stop a mutated gorilla, a crocodile, and a wolf from wreaking havoc in Chicago.
6. Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui
The movie 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 (Director – ‘Kai Po Che’, ‘Rock On’).
5. Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
The documentary film revolves around an investigation into the tragic crashes of two Boeing 737 Max passenger airliners which resulted in many fatalities and how the cause might have been allegedly related to the precedence of profit over safety.
4. 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.
3. Restless
The French action movie revolves around a corrupt cop’s desperate efforts to cover up an accident. But things do not go as smoothly as the cop had planned after a mysterious accident witness begins to threaten him.
2. 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.
1. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
A sequel to the 2019 psychological thriller movie ‘Escape Room’, the film revolves around a group of six people and their desperate efforts to survive another series of even deadlier escape rooms by realizing what they have in common.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. Twenty Five Twenty One
Set mainly in the year 1998, the show’s plot revolves around how the South Korean financial crisis affected the lives of a young fencing prodigy Na Hee Do (played by Kim So-hyun) and a hard-working man named Baek Yi Jin (Nam Joo-hyuk), whose father’s business has become bankrupt.
9. 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.
8. 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.
7. Fishbowl Wives
Based on the manga series “Kingyo Tsuma” by Kurosawa R, the series follows the lives of six disparate women leading unhappy married lives in their affluent penthouse apartment and how they resort to infidelity for want of getting out of their fishbowl (trapped) lives.
6. 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.
5. 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.
4. Inventing Anna
The miniseries is inspired by an article by Jessica Pressler which was published in America’s New York magazine. It follows a journalist’s investigation into a woman named Anna Delvey, who was able to manipulate New York’s affluent class into believing that she is a German heiress.
3. All of Us Are Dead
Based on the webtoon ‘Now at Our School’, it’s a South Korean show where high school students are forced to fight a zombie outbreak in a battle for survival, in order to avoid becoming the infected creatures themselves. Killing or getting killed are the only two options left for them.
2. 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.
1. The Fame Game
The mystery drama web series features real-life actress Madhuri Dixit as a reel-life superstar Anamika Anand, a mother of two who suddenly disappears leaving no apparent leads. Thereafter, some uncomfortable and unknown truths are revealed during the course of the police investigation. The show also features Sanjay Kapoor and Manav Kaul in important roles.
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