Netflix India making pathways

Netflix India making pathways

Netflix India originals making its path

With thrillers Aranyak and The Fame Game, Netflix India originals are killing it. Recent Netflix India shows Aranyak and The Fame Game, starring two major Bollywood actors, are fascinating standouts in the increasing content library.
Squid Game, K-Dramas, and Love Is Blind: Japan have all gotten a lot of international attention, but Netflix’s Indian originals haven’t gotten nearly as much attention. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t be aware of what is going on around you. Since its start in 2018, the streaming site has consistently published its own Indian films and programs, in addition to hosting major Bollywood successes. To be sure, not all of the company’s products are deserving of attention. Aranyak and The Fame Game, two recent thrillers, both do. Others were equally enthralled by the shows: Over 17 million people have seen their trailers.

Suspense Thrillers

Both of these engrossing Hindi-language suspense thrillers feature well-known Bollywood actors as the leads. Raveena Tandon, who starred in Aranyak, and Madhuri Dixit Nene, who starred in The Fame Game, both rose to prominence in the 1990s and have appeared in at least 75 films. So, yeah, they are excellent actors in every sense of the word. Tandon and Dixit Nene, as the stars of their respective series, but their acting chops to the test by taking on characters that are more complicated and nuanced than they’ve acted on television in a long time.

Aranyak, a suspenseful murder mystery

Aranyak, a suspenseful murder mystery in the spirit of Mare Of Easttown or Broadchurch, was released last December. When a teenage French tourist goes missing in Sironah, police chief Kasturi Dogra (Tandon) is on the verge of retirement. She works up with her stern new successor, Angad Malik (Parambrata Chatterjee), to investigate the murder, which is linked to a chilling local tale about an animalistic killer who has been terrorizing the community for years.

Aranyak’s diabolical twists weave together many narratives, involving multiple deaths, local politics, and even the cops’ private relationships, all set against the backdrop of a lush, gorgeous village, over the course of eight hour-long episodes. The show’s anticipation has a thrilling payoff, just like the greatest of its sort (and set up for season two). Tandon’s cool, calculating amenability balances Kasturi’s fierceness as a cop and a mother.

The Fame Game

Meanwhile, The Fame Game, which premiered late last month, feels more like to a version of Bollywood that is familiar to Western audiences. Because let’s face it, expensive costumes and song-and-dance routines (even Marvel’s Eternals’ Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo) or overlong runtimes continue to stereotype Indian films (um, The Batman and Dune would like a word). The Fame Game contains some of these elements—its major suspense lingers a little too long—but it also provides a fresh viewpoint on the industry. (Oh, and if “lifting back the curtain on Bollywood” is a subject you’re looking for, Zoya Akhtar’s 2009 film Luck By Chance is a great choice.)

Description

The Fame Game chronicles the inquiry into the sudden disappearance of actress Anamika Anand (Dixit Nene), which causes widespread public concern. Anamika’s life is being investigated by the police, which uncovers a complicated (and often overly complicated) family web. To fill in the gaps of how the crime might’ve transpired, the plot flashes back six months before she vanished, and the back-and-forth between timelines adds to the tense atmosphere.

While the show occasionally veers toward heightened drama, Dixit Nene’s dominating performance serves as the show’s focal point. The actress has always shone on screen, but she’s both unsettling and adorable as Anamika, one of her most important roles to date. (See, for example, the show’s greatest scene, which features Anamika and her closed-off adolescent son.)

Sacred games as a golden start

Sacred Games brought in a slew of new television thrillers. Seriously, when it comes to Indian original material, the genre outperforms all others, regardless of platform. Paatal Lok and Mirzapur, both available on Prime Video, and Special Ops and Aarya, both available on Disney+ Hotstar, make for compelling entertainment.
Netflix has released nearly 50 originals in various genres, but Aranyak and The Fame Game (together with Delhi Crime, which won the International Emmy for Outstanding Drama in 2019) are two of the most compelling. These shows introduce viewers to a new way of watching Bollywood films, one that defies stereotypes rather than reinforcing them. If the language is a problem, you can always watch Bong Joon-Oscars ho’s speech about breaking over the one-inch subtitle barrier.

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