Netflix revealed its upcoming Indian programming lineup on Thursday. The big-budget period drama Heeramandi by Sanjay Leela Bhansali will be the first release in a new wave of web series and movies on the streamer. Additionally, a new drama from director Anubhav Sinha about the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 and a thriller directed by Kajol and Kriti Sanon will be shown to audiences. Heeramandi, which features fierce rival courtesans Mallikajaan and Fareedan fighting for dominance, is referred to as a “epic saga of love, power, betrayal, struggle, and, ultimately, freedom.” The backdrop of the show will be the freedom movement. A first look at the drama-thriller Do Patti, starring Kriti Sanon and Kajol, was also released by Netflix. Shashanka Chaturvedi, the film’s director, sets in ‘the mesmerising and mysterious hills of North India’.
The streamer also revealed the logline for director Homi Adajania’s murder mystery Murder Mubarak and the cast of Anubhav Sinha’s IC814: The Kandahar Attack. “Where a death at a posh recreational club opens an investigation that gets complex by the minute as secrets and lies come to the surface and everyone is a suspect,” is the setting of the movie, which takes place in New Delhi.
In 2018, Netflix launched its critically acclaimed hit series Sacred Games in India. The show, which co-directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane and starred Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, served as a model for a new wave of audacious and ambitious Indian storytelling. The pandemic increased the number of viewers, but the quality decreased as well. When co-founder Reed Hastings visited India in 2018, he was optimistic about the market, but Netflix has been having trouble demonstrating growth there.
