For Netflix India’s top ten films list, the top-ranked title has been bagged by the comedy drama movie ‘Thai Massage’ starring Gajraj Rao and Divyendu Sharma followed by the Janhvi Kapoor starrer survival thriller ‘Mili’, and the wrestling backdrop-based sports drama ‘Gatta Kusthi’.
On the Netflix top ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has been bagged by the comedy drama show ‘Ginny & Georgia’. While on the second and the third spots of the Netflix list are the massively popular horror comedy series ‘Wednesday’ and the non-linear heist drama ‘Kaleidoscope’, 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. 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).
9. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
In the ‘Knives Out’ sequel, ex-James Bond actor Daniel Craig reprises his role as the astute detective – Benoit Blanc. The story follows a tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton), who invites his friends to his private Greek island. But the goings-on take a drastic turn when someone is killed, and Benoit Blanc is tasked to investigate the mysterious case. The whodunnit film also features Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Jessica Henwick, Ethan Hawke, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, amongst others.
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. The Pale Blue Eye
The suspense thriller movie set in the year 1830 features Christian Bale as an experienced detective named Augustus Landor, who accepts the case of the killing of a West Point military cadet. He takes the help of another young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe (played by Harry Melling) to unearth the mystery.
6. Double XL
Helmed by Satram Ramani, the movie revolves around the story of two plus-sized women Rajshree Trivedi from Meerut and Saira Khanna from New Delhi (played by Huma Qureshi and Sonakshi Sinha, respectively). The underlying premise is about how the two women deal with the beauty standards set by the society in an amusing and light-hearted way.
5. Naai Sekar Returns
The comedy movie features Vadiveli in the titular role of Naai Sekar, a small-time criminal who runs into big trouble after he kidnaps the dog of a dreaded gangster. Now, he must try to save himself from the gangster’s wrath.
4. Mumbai Mafia: Police Vs The Underworld
The true crime documentary film focuses on the turbulent times during the 1990s period in Mumbai and the violent battle between the rising force of encounter specialists and the dreaded underworld gang – the D-Company.
3. 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.
2. Mili
Directed by Mathukutty Xavier, the survival thriller movie follows a nursing graduate Mili (played by Janhvi Kapoor), who works part-time in a restaurant. One night, she gets accidentally locked inside the restaurant’s freezer room. How her body begins to break down in the freezing cold and her desperate attempts to survive against all odds forms the film’s basic plot.
1. Thai Massage
The comedy drama film tells the story of a 70-year-old widower Atmaram Dubey (Gajraj Rao), who has been celibate for many years now. When he can’t get over the fact that he would be a celibate for the rest of his life, a young man (Divyendu Sharma) comes up with a plan.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. Lady Voyeur
The Brazilian erotic thriller series revolves around a highly adept and reclusive hacker Miranda, whose life takes a U-turn after she meets her dream lover in the most unexpected way and place.
9. CAT
Helmed by Balwinder Singh Janjua, the action thriller web series follows the story of a former police informant aka CAT (Randeep Hooda) who is enlisted by a disgruntled cop for a daredevil mission to infiltrate a drug empire and to cause a powerful politician’s downfall. Now, he must deal with a dangerous drug gang and his dark past to save his brother’s life.
8. Alchemy of Souls
The South Korean series is set in a fictional region Daeho where mages can use the titular magic spell ‘Alchemy of Souls’ to switch bodies. The story follows an elite warrior Nak-su (Jung So-min), who gets trapped inside the body of a blind woman and helps a man (Lee Jae-wook) from a noble family to change his fate.
7. 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.
6. 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 concurrently balances her workplace along with her personal life.
5. The Glory
The eight-part South Korean series is about a woman, who hatches an elaborate plan to exact revenge from her childhood bullies who destroyed her life.
4. 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.
3. 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.
2. 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.
1. 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).
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