For Netflix India’s top ten films list, the top-ranked title has been bagged by a surprise entry – the 2021 Venom sequel ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’.
In the second place is the recently released mystery thriller movie ‘The Weekend Away’. While the historical survival movie ‘Against the Ice’ 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. And ‘All of Us Are Dead’ currently holds second place on the Netflix top TV shows list.
On the third 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. Minnal Murali
Set during the 1990s, the film follows the superhero origin story of a small-town tailor Jaison (Tovino Thomas). When Jaison is struck by a bolt of lightning in a rare astronomical event, it bestows him special powers like super speed, extraordinary strength, telekinesis, and extreme agility. After Jaison embraces these powers and assumes the superhero mantle of Minnal Murali, he must protect the people from his evil counterpart.
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. 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’).
7. Bumblebee
Helmed by Travis Knight, it’s a spin-off prequel movie to Michael Bay’s Transformer film series. When an Autobot scout called B-127 is sent to Earth by Optimus Prime, B-127 crash lands in California and is attacked by a Decepticon, who severely damages the Autobot. The injured B-127 transforms into a Volkswagen Beetle, who is later discovered by a depressed girl Charlie in a scrapyard and names the Autobot Bumblebee.
6. 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.
5. The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure
The South Korean period adventure movie follows a group of brave pirates and bandits who must solve the clues and outwit their military rivals in order to be the first to find the lost royal treasure at sea.
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. Against The Ice
Based on the true story of Denmark’s 1909 expedition, the survival movie features ‘Game of Thrones’ actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the role of Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, who is accompanied by an inexperienced crew member Iver Iverson (Joe Cole) in a dangerous mission to find a lost map in the ice-covered Greenland.
2. The Weekend Away
In this mystery thriller movie, a seemingly perfect weekend away soon turns into a woman’s worst nightmare when her best friend disappears during her leisure trip to Croatia. Things get worse for her when it is discovered that her friend has been murdered and she becomes the primary suspect. Her desperate attempts to clear her name and get back home form the rest of the film’s plot.
1. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Helmed by Andy Serkis, the film is the sequel to the 2018 superhero movie ‘Venom’. Tom Hardy reprises his role as the disgraced investigative journalist Eddie Brock/Venom who attempts to revive his career by interviewing the psychotic serial killer Cletus Kasady (played by Woody Harrelson), who eventually transforms into the titular supervillain called Carnage.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. 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.
9. 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.
8. 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.
7. Worst Roommate Ever
Based on William Brennan’s 2018 New York magazine article, the five-part true-crime docu-series showcases four different spine-chilling stories of one unsuspecting roommate can become the victim of the malicious and violent intentions of his/her seemingly harmless roommate.
6. 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.
5. Pieces of Her
Based on Karin Slaughter’s 2018 novel of the same name, ‘Pieces of Her’ revolves around how a mother-daughter relationship takes a dramatic turn when the mother’s (Toni Collette) mysterious past comes to the fore after a violent shoot-out at their small-town local diner.
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. 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.
2. 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.
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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