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Netflix India revealed on Tuesday a slate stacked with crowd-pleasers such as crime thrillers – always a safe bet – relationship dramas and reality shows. The line-up includes shows about succession and legacy, fantasy content influenced by folklore, and women rampaging to protect their children.
Prominent names as well as reputed actors are involved with the shows and films – Saif Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Sunny Deol, Akshaye Khanna, Manoj Bajpayee, Triptii Dimri, Ravi Kishan, Taapsee Pannu, Vijay Verma, Konkona Sensharma, Suvinder Vicky, Ishwak Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Dia Mirza, Rasika Dugal, Pratik Gandhi, Radhika Apte, Ali Fazal, Aditi Rao Hydari, Siddharth, R Madhavan, Radhika Madan, Anand Deverakonda, Deepak Dobriyal, Divyenndu, Tillotama Shome, Nimisha Sajayan, Gulshan Devaiah.
Most of the series are in Hindi, with a few titles in Tamil and Telugu. The list is not final – depending on delivery, streamers have been known to change release dates or push titles to the next calendar year.
Some of the titles had been announced in 2025 itself, such as Glory, Toaster, Kohrra season 2 and Supper Subbu. Kohrra 2 will now be out on February 11, while Toaster and Super Subbu will be out over the next few months.
There was no update on a previously announced title, Dharmaraj Shetty’s Akka, starring Radhika Apte, Keerthy Suresh and Tanvi Azmi. There is also no news on the fantasy series Rakt Brahmand – The Bloody Kingdom, created by Raj & DK, directed by Rahi Barve, and starring Samantha Nidimoru, Aditya Roy Kapur, Ali Fazal and Wamiqa Gabbi.
What is known is that there will be a new chapter of Lust Stories, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, Kiran Rao, Vikramaditya Motwane and Shakun Batra. The actors include Radhika Apte, Konkona Sensharma, Vijay Varma, Abhishek Banerjee, Gurfateh Pirzada, Sana Thampi, Ali Fazal, Radhika Madan, Aditi Rao Hydari and Siddharth.
Among the revenants is The Great Indian Kapil Show. Maamla Legal Hai, starring Ravi Kishan and Yashpal Sharma, will be back for a second season.
“A decade of streaming has reinforced a simple truth: there is no single way to tell Indian stories, and no single audience to serve,” Monika Shergill, Vice President Content, Netflix India, said in a press release. “India is one nation, made up of many Indias. Our work begins and continues with embracing all of them.”
Here are the synopses and trailers of the publicised titles.
India’s first election after Independence from colonial rule was held in 1951 and 1952. Hum Hindustani is the story of the people who ensured that Indians exercised their right to vote.
Directed by Rahul Dholakia, the Hindi show stars Saif Ali Khan, Pratik Gandhi, Deepak Dobriyal, Mimi Chakraborty, Sarika and Shraddha Dangar.
Siddharth P Malhotra’s legal drama Ikka stars Sunny Deol, Akshaye Khanna, Tillotama Shome, Dia Mirza, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Shishir Sharma and Akansha Ranjan.
Written by Althea Kaushal and Mayank Tewari, the film is about “a riveting face-off between two arch-rivals: a top lawyer forced to defend the man whose past with him and his wife hold many painful memories”, according to a press note.
Directed by Charukesh Sekar, the Tamil series Legacy stars R Madhavan, Abhishek Banerjee, Nimisha Sajayan, Gautham Karthik and Gulshan Devaiah. The synopsis: “Faced with a prophecy of downfall and an inevitable siege, Periyavar, an ageing gangster, fights to save his empire, family and most importantly – his legacy.”
Hansal Mehta has co-created with Niren Bhatt as well as directed the Hindi series Family Business, led by Anil Kapoor and Vijay Varma. The synopsis: “A visionary billionaire grooms a rising tycoon to take over the reins of India’s largest conglomerate as his successor. Months into the top job, he is unceremoniously fired where the mentor takes back the throne.”
The cast includes Akash Khurana, Rhea Chakraborty, Neha Dhupia, Anant Nag, Kanwaljit Singh, Dhruv Sehgal, Nandish Sandhu, Tina Desai, Rohan Mehra, Kamal Sadanah, Raima Sen, Inayat Sood and Madhoo Shah.
Suresh Triveni’s thriller-comedy Maa Behen, written by Pooja Tolani, stars Madhuri Dixit, Triptii Dimri, Ravi Kishan and Dharna Durga.
The film’s synopsis: “When Rekha and her daughters, Jaya and Sushma, the centre of all (controversial!) attention in their conservative locality, find themselves in the middle of a situation with a dead body in their kitchen, the perpetually struggling, constantly squabbling ‘Maa-Behen’ trio must team up to cover up the ‘crime’.”
Talaash: A Mother’s Search, created by Rensil D’Silva and Siddharth P Malhotra and directed by D’Silva, stars Parineeti Chopra in the lead role alongside Tahir Raj Bhasin, Soni Razdan, Anup Soni, Jennifer Winget, , Harleen Sethi, Dhruv Chowdhary and Sumeet Vyas.
The show “follows the journey of a mother tormented by yearly snapshots of her abducted child”, whose “relentless pursuit of answers leads her to a devastating realisation”.
Rajkummar Rao and Sanya Malhotra star in Rao’s production Toaster, about a stingy man who becomes irrationally obsessed with a toaster he has gifted to a newlywed couple. Vivek Das Chaudhary’s Hindi film, written by Akshat Ghildial and Anagh Mukherjee, also stars Archana Puran Singh, Abhishek Banerjee, Farah Khan, Upendra Limaye and Jitendra Joshi.
In Mallik Ram’s Super Subbu, co-written with Ramesh Eligeti, Sundeep Kishan plays a reluctant adult sex education teacher in a village. The Telugu series also stars Mithila Palkar, Murali Sharma and Maanasa Choudhary.
Konkona Sensharma and Pratibha Rannta headline Anubhuti Kashyap’s Hindi film Accused. Sensharma plays a surgeon in the United Kingdom who is accused of being a sexual predator, which shocks her daughter (Rannta).
Viineet Kumar Siingh headlines TVF’s Hello Bachhon, about the learning platform Physics Wallah. The synopsis: “A heart-warming story of an unassuming physics teacher who inspired millions of students across India, fighting against their circumstances to achieve their dream of becoming a doctor or an engineer.”
The cast includes Vikram Kochhar and Girija Oak Godbole.
The Hindi show Musafir Cafe stars Vikarant Massey, Vedika Pinto and Mahima Makwana. The synopsis: “Chander and Sudha share a sudden connection that strikes like a spark, impossible to ignore. With Preeti, however, Chander builds something steadier, a bond grounded in quiet understanding and the comfort of simply being together.”
Created by Sharanya Rajgopal and directed by Ruchir Arun, the show is adapted from Divya Prakash Dubey’s novel Musafir Cafe. The cast includes Adil Hussain, Rajeev Siddhartha, Anubha Fatehpuria, Loveleen Mishra and Sadia Siddiqui.
Ra Karthik’s Indo-Korean romance Made in Korea stars Priyanka Mohan alongside Park Hye-Jin of Squid Game fame.
According to a press note, “When Shenba’s dream of visiting Korea with her boyfriend shatters in betrayal, she finds herself alone in Seoul, grappling with loneliness and cultural challenges. As she transforms through life’s harsh lessons, Shenba discovers resilience and forms a bond for life with her newfound friends.”
Neeraj Pandey reunites with Manoj Bajpayee for a Hindi film about corruption. Pandey is the producer of Ritesh Shah’s Ghooskhor Pandat, which also stars Divya Dutta, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Saquib Saleem and Akshay Oberoi.
The synopsis: “A bent police officer Ajay Dikshit (Pandat), plans an eventful and money-making night that is disrupted as he finds himself in the midst of a global conspiracy while trying to unravel the identity of a badly injured girl thrown out of a moving car in the heart of Delhi.”
Netflix has acquired the second season of the Bhuvan Bam-led show Dhindora. The first season is available on Bam’s YouTube channel BB Ki Vines. Bam plays a host of characters, such as Titu Mama and Detective Mangloo.
In the new season, Titu Mama threatens to drag his family into “a world of pride, panic, and poor planning”, according to a press release. The Hindi show has been written by Bam, Abbas Dalal, Hussain Dalal, Chetan Dange, Gopal Datt, Shubham Dubey and Anant Dubey.
The new film from Middle Class Melodies director Vinod Anantoju is inspired by folklore. Anand Deverakonda and Nitanshi Goel star in a Telugu thriller that explores how ambition and greed distort human nature.
The synopsis: “A blind tribesman and his loyal dog embark on a dangerous quest to confront the evil force that burned his village to ashes and killed the love of his life on a cursed night.”
Bhakshak director Pulkit teams up with Saif Ali Khan and Rasika Dugal for the police procedural Kartavya. The synopsis: “With his family’s safety at stake and menacing threats closing in, a police officer must decide how far he’ll go to uphold his duty.”
Also in the cast are Sanjay Mishra, Saurabh Dwivedi, Zakir Hussain and Manish Chaudhari.
Arjun Das and Aishwarya Lekshmi headline Balaji Mohan’s Tamil series #LOVE. The premise: Tara is a startup founder who clashes with Matthew, an investor. Tara’s dating app promotes compatibility, while Matthew’s platform favors chemistry.
Karan Anshuman and Karmanya Ahuja have created the sports thriller Glory, about a brutal attack that compels a boxing coach to reunite with his estranged sons. The cast includes Suvinder Vicky, Divyenndu and Pulkit Samrat.
The synopsis: “Glory is a gripping murder mystery set in the high-pressure world of competitive sport, where ambition and hidden truths weigh heavy.”
The Hindi film Gandhari stars Taapsee Pannu as a woman who hunts down her daughter’s attackers. Also in the cast are Ishwak Singh, Chhaya Kadam, Swastika Mukherjee, Mita Vashisht and Jatin Sarna.
“After her little daughter is abducted in a crowded railway station and a brutal attack leaves her temporarily blind, a grieving mother must rise from her trauma and confront a shadowy child-trafficking nexus embedded deep within a town of shape-shifters and ancient lore,” reads the synopsis of the film written by Kanika Dhillon and directed by Devashish Makhija.
JD Majethia and Aatish Kapadia, the creators of the popular shows Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai and Khichdi, are behind the comedy series Chumbak. The synopsis: “Alongside a young author and an eccentric family support group, we take a hilarious, mirthful look into the lives of people who laugh, eat, drink, make merry, shed tears and share their lives together as neighbours living in an old row-house neighbourhood in Mumbai.”
The cast includes Neena Gupta, Deven Bhojani, Amyra Dastur, Anant V Joshi, Sumeet Vyas, Manasi Parekh, Arjun Bijlani, Helly Shah, Sumeet Raghavan and Sandeepa Dhar.
Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai, directed by Kapil Sharma, stars Shaheer Sheikh, Zoya Afroz and Mohit Mallik. The synopsis: “A desperate choice draws millionaire Zorawar into a devil’s pact. Tragedy and grief drives Samarjeet Behl into a relentless quest for vengeance. In between these two men, drawn into their spiral of conflict, stands Chahat who is seeking dangerous answers.”
Prajakta Koli and Rohit Saraf return for the fourth and final season of Mismatched. The synopsis: “Dimple and Rishi are unexpectedly thrown back into each other’s lives, reopening a love they never truly resolved.”
Created by Gazal Dhaliwal, the series also stars Vidya Malvade, Rannvijay Singha, Vidya Malvade, Ahsaas Channa, Taaruk Raina, Muskkaan Jaferi and Abhinav Sharma.
Karan Kundrra and Tejasswi Prakash host the reality series Desi Bling. The synopsis: “Welcome to one of Dubai’s most flamboyant and exclusive Desi circles, where billionaires, Birkin bags, and big egos rule. As TV stars and upstarts Karan Kundra and Tejasswi enter the high-stakes society of wealthy Indian expats, they get more than they bargained for.”
Among the participants are Satish Sanpal, Tabinda Sanpal, Rizwan Sajan, Adel, Sajan, Sana Sajan, Pamala Serena, Dyuti Parruck, Iryna Kinakh, Alizey Mirza, Lailli Mirza and Janvee Gaur.
In another reality series, Lock Upp, “India’s most newsworthy personalities are locked away in a new-age prison, all because they have been condemned in the court of public opinion. Will they own their story and fight for their redemption? Or will they be cancelled forever?”
Operation Safed Sagar, about an episode that took place during the Kargil War, has been created by Abhijeet Singh Parmar and Kushal Srivastava and directed by Oni Sen. The cast includes Siddharth, Jimmy Shergill, Abhay Verma, Dia Mirza, Prajakta Koli, Adil Hussain, Mihir Ahuja, Taaruk Raina, Arnav Bhasin and Amrita Bagchi.
The synopsis: “It is a gripping, high-stakes drama about the Kargil war that takes the audience deep into the political machinations beyond enemy lines and then skywards to the innovation and bravado of a brotherhood of maverick fighter pilots, who put everything at stake to defend the motherland.”
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