Other titles showcased on Films Day included: “Chakda ‘Xpress,” a film inspired by the life of cricketer Jhulan Goswami starring Anushka Sharma heist thriller “Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga,” starring Yami Gautam “Jogi,” set during the 1984 Delhi riots, starring Diljit Dosanjh and directed by Ali Abbas Zafar (“Sultan”) satire “Kathal,” starring Sanya Malhotra Vishal Bhardwaj’s spy thriller “Khufiya,” starring Tabu, Ali Fazal and Azmeri Haque Badhon and Vasan Bala’s whodunnit “Monica O My Darling,” with Rajkummar Rao, Huma S. Other titles featured on the day included Shashanka Ghosh’s romantic comedy “Plan A Plan B,” starring Riteish Deshmukh and Tamannaah Bhatia intense drama “Qala,” directed by Anvita Dutt Zoya Akhtar’s comic book adaptation “The Archies” and the Indian adaptation of “The Devotion of Suspect X,” headlined by Kareena Kapoor Khan and directed by Sujoy Ghosh (“Kahaani”). Hits for the service also include “Gangubai Kathiawadi,” “RRR” and “Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2.” Shergill points out that 28 Indian films have featured in the Netflix non-English top 10 charts this year, there was a week where five Indian titles featured on Netflix’s global top 10 list, and that viewership of Indian films on the service has gone up by 50% from last year. “All of it points to not just the passion that Indian audiences have for cinema in India, but also that we are doing something right, the kind of stories that we are selecting, that we are bringing to the audiences, what we are learning from them, the cues that we are getting from them, what they are liking, it’s actually making us deliver better,” says Shergill. The executive is bullish about the streamer’s growth in an ultra-competitive Indian streaming market.
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