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Netflix India`s Vice-President (Content) Monika Shergill has said that five Indian titles have featured on Netflix`s global top 10 lists so far this year. Viewership of Indian films on the streaming service has gone up by 50 per cent from last year, reports `Variety`.
Netflix India`s Vice-President (Content) Monika Shergill has said five Indian titles have featured on Netflix`s global top 10 lists so far this year. Viewership of Indian films on the streaming service has gone up by 50 per cent from last year, reports `Variety`.
Hits for the service include Alia Bhatt`s `Gangubai Kathiyawadi`, pan-India blockbuster `RRR` and `Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2`, starring Kartik Aaryan and Tabu.
Shergill also pointed out in an interview with `Variety`, coinciding with the streamer`s ‘Films Day’ on Monday, that Indian movies featured in the Netflix non-English charts for 31 of the last 34 weeks.
Another hit film has been the Alia Bhatt starrer `Darlings`, whose story revolving around domestic abuse, debuted as the biggest non-English language original film opener for the service worldwide. The movie, co-produced by Alia with Red Chillies Entertainment, also featured powerful performances by Shefali Shah and Vijay Verma.
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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` (starring Tabu, Ali Fazal, and Azmeri Haque Badhon), and Anurag Kashyap’s 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 Babil making his film debut; Zoya Akhtar`s comic book adaptation `The Archies` and also 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.
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