In the middle of the fad around Kantara Chapter 1, the very first Kantara movie which initially launched in 2022, has actually now gone up the charts to rank amongst the most-watched non-English movie worldwide on Netflix. In 2022, the movie ranked amongst the international leading 10 non-English movies for 2 weeks on the platform.
Kantara resurfaces on Netflix international leading 10
The Hindi variation of Rishab Shetty’s 2022 movie, Kantara, has actually climbed up back on the most recent weekly list of non-English movies that are amongst the most viewed on Netflix worldwide. The movie which got director-actor Rishab Shetty his global popularity, is the 8th most-watched non-English movie on Netflix for the week ending October 12.
Kantara ( Hindi)
A still from the 2022 Kannada movie ‘Kantara’.
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The Kannada movie became a surprise ticket office struck after launching on September 30, 2022. The Hindi variation was launched a month later on to deal with the audience needs. The initial Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam variations arrived on Amazon Prime Video in November 2022, and the Hindi variation got a digital launching on Netflix in December 2022. An English variation was likewise launched on Netflix later on. Kantara made its Netflix launching as ninth most-watched non-English movie on the platform and moved down to the tenth position next week before leaving of the weekly international list by Netflix.
Now, 3 years after it initially launched, the movie has actually tape-recorded one million views and 2.5 million watch-hours in the week ending October 12. The Hindi variation of the movie is now the world’s 8th most-watched non-English movie on Netflix today. It likewise ranked amongst the leading 10 most-watched movie on the platform in 6 nations consisting of India, Maldives, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Pakistan and United Arab Emirates.
When the movie struck theatres, the Rishab Shetty movie scored more than $35 million in a month at package workplace. It offered hard competitors to Bollywood releases which strike theatres around the exact same time. These consisted of Ajay Devgn-starrer Thank God and Ram Setu headlined by Akshay Kumar.
War 2
Indian stars Hrithik Roshan and NTR in a still from ‘War 2’.
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Bollywood filmmaker Ayan Mukerji ( Brahmastra popularity) had a rather dull box-office run in August 2025 with his Hindi movie War 2 The movie, however, ranks amongst leading 10 most-watched non-English movies on Netflix in its launching week on the platform. Signing up 3.4 million views and 9.9 million watch-hours, the movie is 3rd most-watched non-English movie on Netflix for the week ending October 12. It is likewise the most viewed movie on Netflix for the week in 6 nations consisting of India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Mauritius. It likewise ranked amongst leading 10 most-watched movies on the platform in 14 nations around the world. With 3.5 million views in India alone, War 2 is likewise the most-watched movie online in India.
War 2 is a follow up to Hrithik Roshan-Tiger Shroff-starrer War ( 2019) and the 6th movie in Yash Raj Films’ spy universe. The spy universe of the Indian production home includes films on imaginary spies who work for the Indian intelligence firm, Research study and Analysis Wing (R&AW). Ek Tha Tiger ( 2012 ), starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif was the very first movie and was followed by 2 follows up – Tiger Zinda Hai ( 2017) and Tiger 3 ( 2023 ). Khan and Kaif included in all 3 films. After the 2019 movie War reworded ticket office success stories, Yash Raj Films revealed the spy universe and launched Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan in 2023 as the 5th movie from its spy universe.
Hrithik Roshan, Kiara Advani, Anil Kapoor and Ashutosh Rana play lead functions of Indian spies in the movie which includes NTR in an unique function together with Varun Badola and KC Shankar.
Boy of Sardaar 2
The Bollywood movie Boy of Sardaar 2 likewise handled to protect a position amongst leading 10 non-English films most-watched on Netflix today. With 0.9 million views and 2.2 million watch-hours, the Hindi movie is the ninth most-watched non-English film on the platform for the week ending October 12. It is the 3rd week on the list for Boy of Sardaar 2 The movie likewise ranked amongst leading 10 films in 8 nations throughout the world.
Recently, Boy of Sardaar 2 was the 4th most-watched non-English movie worldwide on Netflix. It was likewise the most viewed movie in India, UAE and Pakistan. It made its launching at the 5th slot on the list. According to Ormax Media, it is the most-watched movie on any online platform in India in the week ending October 5 with 3 million views in the nation alone.
Vijay Kumar Arora has actually directed Boy of Sardaar 2 which includes Ajay Devgn together with Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishan, Kubbra Sait, Mukul Dev, Chunky Pandey, and Neeru Bajwa. The movie is a follow up to the 2012 Hindi film Boy of Sardaar
Kantara Chapter 1
Rishab Shetty’s Kantara Chapter 1 is a prequel to his 2022 movie Kantara The brand-new movie is producing ticket office records at the international ticket windows. It struck theatres on October 2, on the celebration of the Indian celebration Dussehra. The movie has actually currently crossed the $80 million-mark at the international ticket office. Shetty stars ahead function in the movie together with Rukmini Vasanth, Gulshan Devaiah and Jayaram in critical functions. Anirudh Mahesh and Shanil Master co-wrote Kantara Chapter 1 with Shetty.
Source: Forbes.