Netflix reported on Friday in its second engagement report that in 2023, Indian television shows and films received over 1 billion views.
The “What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report” report included viewership statistics for the streaming service from July to December 2023.
In the second half of 2023, Netflix had 90 billion hours of content viewed by users worldwide.
From India, Sujoy Ghosh’s “Jaane Jaan” was the most watched movie on Netflix with 20.2 million views, followed by Shah Rukh Khan’s “Jawan” with 16.2 million views and Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Khufiya” with 12.1 million views.
The other popular titles include “OMG 2” (11.5 million views), “Lust Stories 2” (9.2 million views), “Dream Girl 2” (8.2 million views) and true-crime documentary “Curry & Cyanide” (8.2 million views).
From the series that were launched on Netflix, “The Railway Men”, starring Kay Kay Menon, Babil Khan and Divyenndu, turned out to be the top title.
The series, set against the backdrop of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak, attracted 10.6 millions views, followed by Suvinder Vicky and Barun Sobti-starrer “Kohraa” (6.4 million views), Raj and DK’s “Gun and Gulaabs” (6.4 million views) and “Kaala Paani” (5.8 million views).
Globally, non-English shows and movies are very popular with Netflix subscribers, making up nearly a third of all viewing, according to the report.
This includes Korean (with 9 per cent of viewing), Spanish (7 per cent) and Japanese (5 per cent) language stories captured the biggest share of viewing outside of English.
The report highlighted stand-outs titles like “Dear Child” (53 million views) from Germany, “Forgotten Love” (43 million views) from Poland, “Pact of Silence” (21 million views) from Mexico, “Mask Girl” (19 million views) from Korea, “Yu Yu Hakusho” (17 million views) from Japan and “Berlin” (11 million views) from Spain.
With 121 million views, the Ethan Hawke and Julia Roberts film “Leave the World Behind” was the most watched movie on Netflix. Adam Sandler’s animated film “Leo” came in second with 96 million views.
The live-action anime series “One Piece” garnered 72 million views on its own.
The report also noted that, even after their Netflix debuts, fan favorites “Wednesday,” “Red Notice,” and “Squid Game” continued to receive millions of views in 2023.
