Netflix’s Global Top 10 List Includes Alia Bhatt Starrer ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi, ‘RRR’ & ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’
Viewership of Indian films on the streaming service has increased by 50% since last year.
Monika Shergill, Netflix India’s Vice-President (Content), stated that five Indian titles have appeared on Netflix’s global top ten lists this year. According to Variety, viewership of Indian films on the streaming service has increased by 50% since last year.
Hits for the service include Alia Bhatt’s ‘Gangubai Kathiyawadi,’ the pan-India blockbuster ‘RRR,’ and Kartik Aaryan and Tabu’s ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’.
Shergill also stated in an interview with ‘Variety’ on Monday, coinciding with the streamer’s Films Day, that Indian films have appeared in the Netflix non-English charts for 31 of the last 34 weeks.
Another successful Alia film was ‘Darlings,’ a story about domestic abuse that debuted as the service’s biggest non-English language original film opener worldwide. Shefali Shah and Vijay Verma also give strong performances in the film, which Alia co-produced with Red Chillies Entertainment.
Other titles showcased during Films Day included: ‘Chakda Xpress’, inspired by the life of cricketer Jhulan Goswami, starring Anushka Sharma; heist thriller ‘Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga’, starring Yami Gautam and Sunny Kaushal; ‘Jogi’, which is set against the backdrop of the 1984 Delhi anti-Sikh riots, starring Diljit Dosanjh and directed by Ali Abbas Zafar; the satire ‘Kathal’, starring Sanya Malhotra; Vishal Bhardwaj’s spy thriller ‘Khufiya’ featuring Tabu, Ali Fazal, and Azmeri Haque Badhon; and Anurag Kashyap acolyte Vasan Bala’s whodunnit ‘Monica O My Darling’, with Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi and Radhika Apte.
Also a part of the showcase were Shashanka Ghosh’s romantic comedy ‘Plan A Plan B’, starring Riteish Deshmukh and Tamannaah Bhatia; the intense drama ‘Qala’, directed by Anvita Dutt, which will see Irrfan Khan’s son Balih making his film debut; Zoya Akhtar’s comic book adaptation ‘The Archies’; and the Indian version of Keigo Higashino’s Detective Galileo novel, ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’, headlined by Kareena Kapoor Khan and directed by Sujoy Ghosh (“Kahaani”).
