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Last Updated: 11.57 AM, Jul 19, 2021
Streaming platforms are notorious for their lack of transparency, allowing them to quote numbers that are tough to verify. Ormax Media, a media consulting firm, has began tracking viewership figures of the top releases across major platforms.
Here’s a list of the most-viewed shows and movies from the Indian streaming space during the week of July 12th, 2021 – July 18th, 2021. The numbers are all estimates based only within India. This list does not include any streaming released from the South.
Views (million): 5.6
Jimmy Sheirgill stars as a supercop in Sanawar called Manoj Kumar Hesi, whose chief-guest appearance at a school function is interrupted by a young terrorist who takes the auditorium hostage. This becomes a cat-and-mouse race against time, with the terrorist forcing the cop to run around town and commit certain crimes in order to disarm the codes of the bomb.
Views (million): 4.1
This is a sports drama directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, starring Farhan Akhtar as a national level boxer, with Mrunal Thakur and Paresh Rawal in supporting roles.
Views (million): 2.4
Based on real events, the 2002 Akshardham Temple attack, here Akshaye Khanna leads the FDG commandos who step in.
Views (million): 1.3
Based on Satya Vyas’s novel Chaurasi, the premise of Grahan is compelling. The 8-episode series is centred on a Ranchi IPS officer named Amrita Singh (Zoya Hussain) who, on the eve of the 2016 elections, finds herself leading a special investigation of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Bokaro
Views (million): 1.2
The second season of this teen-drama involves competition, boxing, love, sex, murder, and alcohol, as the teens are trying to grapple with their coming of age.
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