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Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan, Shahid Kapoor Led Farzi Lead IMDb’s Most Popular Indian Movies and Web Series Rankings

Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan, Shahid Kapoor-Led Farzi Lead IMDb’s Most Popular Indian Movies and Web Series Rankings

The rankings were tallied based on films and series released between January 1 to July 3, 2023.

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Manas Mitul | Updated: 13 July 2023 16:34 IST

Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan, Shahid Kapoor-Led Farzi Lead IMDb’s Most Popular Indian Movies and Web Series Rankings

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Shahid Kapoor in a still from Farzi

Highlights

Rankings were simply based on page views and aren’t indicative of quality
Shahid Kapoor has an extra entry on the film side — Bloody Daddy
Pathaan marks Shah Rukh Khan’s return to mainstream Bollywood

Halfway into the year, IMDb has revealed a list of the 10 most popular Indian movies and TV series — so far — both of which are led by the biggest stars in Bollywood. On the film side, we've got the Shah Rukh Khan-led espionage thriller Pathaan, which marked the actor's return to mainstream filming after four years. Bear in mind, this list is created using page views on IMDb as a metric and is, therefore, not an indicator of its quality. IMDb does, of course, also maintain a crowd-sourced rating system which puts a score on the quality of films, but this can quite easily be gamed by audiences.

Raj and DK's Farzi, which leads the pack among the most popular TV series of 2023 in India, is a good example of this. Earlier this week, its lead Shahid Kapoor tweeted out an infographic, where [Farzi(https://www.gadgets360.com/tags/farzi) ranked second among the ‘Top-rated TV Series of 2023' (worldwide) — right below HBO's The Last of Us — adding that such a high ranking indicates a demand for a second season. What he didn't take into consideration is the number of voters, which Farzi significantly lacks. The show earned an 8.4-star rating from a mere 35,000 voters/ viewers, while The Last of Us emerged on top with a score of 8.8/10, collected from 434,000 voters. It can, therefore, be assumed that titles with more votes have more reliable ratings.

Still, it does make sense for Farzi to be ranked as the most popular show in India (based on page views as a metric), which followed a rags-to-riches story of a small-time con artist who learns to make counterfeit money. What follows next is a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase between him and a fiery, unorthodox task force officer Michael Vedanayagam (Vijay Sethupathi), as the story veers into bigger threats involving a local gangster and some greedy accomplices who are willing to bend over at the sight of money. Its creators Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. responded to Kapoor's tweet, expressing their desire for a second chapter as well.

“It's extremely heartening to learn that Pathaan is first on the list by IMDb. To see the amount of love that Pathaan has received is amazing, and whenever any work gets placed first, then the thing to do is to work twice as hard on the next one to thank everyone for this recognition,” Pathaan's lead Khan said in a prepared statement. “Most importantly, I would like to thank the team of Pathaan and the audiences across the globe for making this happen!” The film was followed closely by Salman Khan's Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan and The Kerala Story, which was bound to get some attention due to the political sentiment surrounding it. What's interesting is that there wasn't much distinction in IMDb traffic, regardless of whether a film was released in theatres or digitally.

Streaming originals such as Bloody Daddy (JioCinema) and Netflix's Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga and Mission Majnu managed to secure spots among the top 10. Not all of them are from Bollywood, however; two Tamil films Varisu and Ponniyin Selvan: Part Two complete the list in positions 9 and 10, respectively.

IMDb's press release notes that Indian audiences gravitated toward crime drama series during the first half of the year, with the sub-genre taking up eight spots out of the total 10. Standouts include Rana Naidu, Asur 2: Rise of the Dark Side, and Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo. The exceptions are the period drama Taj: Divided by Blood and Rocket Boys, the latter of which saw two visionaries Dr. Vikram Sarabhai (Ishwak Singh) and Dr. Homi J. Bhabha (Jim Sarbh) competing to launch their projects during India's formative years in the field of science.

IMDb's Most Popular Indian Movies of 2023 (so far)

Pathaan — streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan — streaming on Zee5

The Kerala Story

Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar — streaming on Netflix

Mission Majnu — streaming on Netflix

Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga — streaming on Netflix

Bloody Daddy — streaming on JioCinema

Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai — streaming on Zee5

Varisu — streaming on Amazon Prime Video and YouTube (for free)

Ponniyin Selvan: Part Two — streaming on Amazon Prime Video

IMDb's Most Popular Indian Web Series of 2023 (so far)

Farzi — streaming on Amazon Prime Video

The Night Manager — streaming on Disney+ Hotstar

Rana Naidu — streaming on Netflix

Jubilee — streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Asur: Welcome To Your Dark Side — streaming on JioCinema

Dahaad — streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo — streaming on Disney+ Hotstar

Taaza Khabar — streaming on Disney+ Hotstar

Taj: Divided By Blood — streaming on Zee5

Rocket Boys — streaming on Sony Liv

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Pathaan

Release Date 25 January 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Cast
Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Dimple Kapadia, Ilez Badurgov
Director
Siddharth Anand
Producer
Aditya Chopra, Alexander Dostal, Maxim Ajjawi, Keshav Purushot

Farzi Season 1

Release Date 10 February 2023
Genre Crime, Thriller
Cast
Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Raashi Khanna, Kay Kay Menon, Regina Cassandra, Zakir Hussain, Bhuvan Arora, Amol Palekar, Kubbra Sait
Director
Raj Nidimoru, Krishna DK
Producer
Rahul Gandhi

Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan

Release Date 21 April 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Action, Comedy
Cast
Salman Khan, Pooja Hegde, Venkatesh, Jagapathi Babu, Raghav Juyal, Siddharth Nigam, Shehnaaz Gill, Jassie Gill, Palak Tiwari
Director
Farhad Samji
Producer
Salman Khan

The Kerala Story

Release Date 5 May 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Drama
Cast
Adah Sharma, Yogita Bihani, Sonia Balani, Siddhi Idnani, Pranav Misshra, Saniya Mir, Benedict Garrett, Eleena Koul, Pranay Pachauri, Bhavna Makhija, Chandra Shekhar Dutta, Usha Subramanian Saksena
Director
Sudipto Sen
Producer
Vipul Amrutlal Shah

Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar

Release Date 8 March 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Comedy, Romance
Cast
Shraddha Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Boney Kapoor, Anubhav Singh Bassi
Director
Luv Ranjan
Producer
Luv Ranjan, Ankur Garg

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Mission Majnu

Release Date 20 January 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Action, Drama
Cast
Rashmika Mandanna, Sidharth Malhotra, Kumud Mishra, Sharib Hashmi, Parmeet Sethi, Awlad Hossen Eshan, Mir Sarwar, Rukh Nabeel, Zachary Coffin, Kartik Srivastava, Sharik Khan, Sunny Yadav, Mohd Talib, Neel Vishal Mishra, Ariyan Mehedi, Vikram Sharma, Bikram Malati, Anaya Kashyap, DJ Virus
Director
Shantanu Bagchi
Producer
Ronnie Screwvala, Amar Butala, Garima Mehta

Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga

Release Date 24 March 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Action, Thriller
Cast
Yami Gautam Dhar, Sunny Kaushal, Sharad Kelkar, Farooq Azam, Rik Aby
Director
Ajay Singh
Producer
Dinesh Vijan, Amar Kaushik

Bloody Daddy

Release Date 9 June 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Action
Cast
Shahid Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Diana Penty, Ronit Roy, Rajeev Khandelwal, Ankur Bhatia, Vivan Bhathena, Zeishan Quadri, Mukesh Bhhatt, Vikram Mehra, Sartaaj Kakka
Director
Ali Abbas Zafar
Producer
Jyoti Deshpande, Sunir Khetarpal, Gaurav Bose, Himanshu Kishan, Mehra Ali, Abbas Zafar

Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai

Release Date 23 May 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Drama, Thriller
Cast
Manoj Bajpayee, Ajay Soni, Kaustav Sinha
Director
Apoorv Singh Karki
Producer
Kamlesh Bhanushali, Vinod Bhanushali, Vishal Gurnani, Asif Shaikh

Varisu

Release Date 11 January 2023
Language Tamil
Genre Action, Drama
Cast
Vijay, Rashmika Mandanna, Jayasudha, Shaam, Prabhu, R. Sarathkumar, Prakash Raj, Srikanth, Ganesh Venkatraman, Khushbu, Sangeetha, Yogi Babu, Sriman, Samyuktha Shanmughanathan, Sathish, VTV Ganesh, S. J. Suryah, Harshitha, Advaith
Director
Vamshi Paidipally
Producer
Dil Raju, Sirish

Ponniyin Selvan: Part Two

Release Date 28 April 2023
Language Tamil
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
Cast
Vikram, Karthi, Jayam Ravi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Trisha Krishnan, Sobhita Dhulipala, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Jayaram, R. Sarathkumar, Parthiban Radhakrishnan, Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Rahman, Kishore Kumar G., Lal, Nizhalgal Ravi, Nassar, Vikram Prabhu
Director
Mani Ratnam

The Night Manager

Release Date 17 February 2023
Genre Crime, Thriller
Cast
Jagdish Rajpurohit, Salim Siddiqui, Anand Vikas Potdekhe, Anil Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapur
Director
Priyanka Ghose, Rukh Nabeel, Sandeep Modi
Producer
Amrita Sen, Preity Zinta

Rana Naidu

Release Date 10 March 2023
Genre Crime, Drama
Cast
Rana Daggubbati, Venkatesh Daggubbati, Surveen Chawla, Sushant Singh, Abhishek Banerjee, Suchitra Pillai, Gaurav Chopra, Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajesh Jais
Director
Karan Anshuman, Suparn Verma
Producer
Aaron Sunder

Jubilee

Release Date 7 April 2023
Genre Drama
Cast
Prasenjit Chatterjee, Wamiqa Gabbi, Aparshakti Khurana, Sidhant Gupta, Nandish Singh Sandhu, Shweta Basu Prasad, Tushar Phulke, Harish Chhabra, Ajay Dutta, Narottam Bain, Edward Sonnenblick
Director
Vikramaditya Motwane
Producer
Dipa De Motwane

Asur Season 1

Release Date 2 March 2023
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cast
Arshad Warsi, Barun Sobti, Anupriya Goenka, Ridhi Dogra, Sharib Hashmi, Amey Wagh, Pawan Chopra, Vishesh Bansal, Gaurav Arora, Anvita Sudarshan, Nishank Verma, Archak Chhabra, Aditya Lal, Deepak Qazir, Bondip Sarma, Jayant Raina, Sunayna Baile, Jay Zaveri, Amit Anand Raut
Director
Oni Sen
Producer
Mittal Sangle

Dahaad

Release Date 12 May 2023
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Cast
Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Verma, Gulshan Devaiah, Sohum Shah, Yogi Singha, Sanghmitra Hitaishi, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, Nirmal Chiraniyan, Vijay Kumar Dogra, Abhishek Bhalerao, Waris Ahmed Zaidi
Director
Reema Kagti, Ruchika Oberoi
Producer
Ritesh Sidhwani, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Farhan Akhtar, Sunitha Ram

Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo

Release Date 5 May 2023
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Cast
Dimple Kapadia, Radhika Madan, Udit Arora, Angira Dhar, Deepak Dobriyal, Monica Dogra, Varun Mitra, Vikram Pratap, Isha Talwar, Ashish Verma
Director
Homi Adajania
Producer
Dinesh Vijan

Taaza Khabar Season 1

Release Date 6 January 2023
Genre Comedy, Drama
Cast
Bhuvan Bam, Shriya Pilgaonkar, JD Chakravarthy, Deven Bhojani, Prathmesh Parab, Nitya Mathur, Shilpa Shukla, Mithilesh Chaturvedi
Director
Himank Gaur
Producer
Rohit Raj, Bhuvan Bam

Taj: Divided by Blood

Release Date 3 March 2023
Genre Drama
Cast
Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, Aditi Rao Hydari, Rahul Bose, Zarina Wahab, Sandhya Mridul, Aashim Gulati, Taaha Shah, Shubham Kumar Mehra, Pankaj Saraswant, Anushka Luhar, Jaanam Raaj, Subodh Bhave, Pawan Chopra, Padma Damodaran, Shivani Tanksale, Aayam Mehta, ActorsFirdaush
Director
Ron Scalpello, Ajay Singh, Vibhu Puri, Prashant Singh
Producer
Abhimanyu Singh, Roopali Singh

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Rocket Boys Season 1

Release Date 4 February 2022
Genre Biography, Drama
Cast
Ishwak Singh, Jim Sarbh, Regina Cassandra, Rajit Kapoor, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Saba Azad, Arjun Radhakrishnan, Namit Das, K.C. Shankar
Director
Abhay Pannu
Producer
Siddharth Roy Kapur, Monisha Advani, Madhu Bhojwani, Nikkhil Advani

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