Netflix has been doubling down on India, and today unveiled new projects with Hansal Mehta, Anil Kapoor, Sunny Deol and Saif Ali Khan among others.
As part of the streamer’s continued round of local slate announcements, Netflix’s VP of Content, India, Monika Shergill said “a decade of streaming has taught us that there’s no single way to tell Indian stories.” Netflix hits ten years in India in 2026.
Among the most notable new projects for this year is Family Business, a drama series from Hansal Mehta and Niren Bhatt, that has shades of Succession. A fuller list of new projects is found towards the bottom of this story.
The plot follows a visionary billionaire (Kapoor) who grooms a rising tycoon (Vijay Varma) to take over the reins of India’s largest conglomerate as his successor, only to unceremoniously fire his protege a few months into the job. Refusing to accept his downfall, the ousted successor strikes back, turning a corporate succession battle into a no-holds-barred war.”
Family Business stars Kapoor, Varma, Akash Khurana, Rhea Chakraborty, Neha Dhupia, Anant Nag, Kanwaljit Singh, Dhruv Sehgal, Nandish Sandhu, Tina Desai, Rohan Mehra, Kamal Sadanah, Raima Sen, Inayat Sood and Madhoo Shah.
Mehta is exec producer alongside Vikram Malhotra, and will also direct. Deepali Gupta is the writer and Abundantia Entertainment and True Story Films are attached to make it.
Here’s a teaser.
Elsewhere, psychological drama Accused comes from director Anubhuti Kashyap, and counts Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta and Somen Mishra as its producers. The film follows the story of a celebrated queer doctor in London, whose life unravels when she is accused of sexual misconduct. Her wife is forced to decide whether to support her spouse or walk away.
Konkona Sen Sharma and Pratibha Rannta star, with Dharmatic Entertainment Production making the pic.
Also on the film front is courtroom drama IKKA starring Sunny Deol. Th pic, from Siddharth P. Malhotra, follows a celebrated, incorruptible lawyer who is arm-twisted into defending a man accused of murder whose career he’d notoriously ended.
Althea Kaushal and Mayank Tewari are the writers, with Malhotra producing alongside Sapna Malhotra, who is also exec producer. Alchemy Films is the production house. Deol stars alongside Akshaye Khanna, Dia Mirza, Tillotama Shome, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Sanjeeda Shaikh Shishir Sharma and Akansha Ranja.
Chumbak is a comedy about five families in an old row-house neighborhood in Mumbai from Aatish Kapadia, Dubai-set reality series Desi Bling follows an exclusive inner circle of Indian billionaires and egos, Hello Bachon stars Vineet Kumar Singh in a drama series about an unassuming physics teacher who inspired millions of students and Legacy is a family crime drama about an ageing gangster fighting to save his empire and his legacy. Talaash: A Mother’s Search will star Parineeti Chopra, Soni Razdan, Anup Soni, Jennifer Winget and more in a series about a mother who receives yearly photographs of her kidnapped son.
Elsewhere, courtroom comedy Maamla Legal Hai returns for a second season, romantic thriller series Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai sees a desperate millionaire drawn into a devil’s pact and rom-com Mismatched is back for a fourth and final season. Also on the romantic front is Musafir Cafe, which is about three wandering people whose lives intertwine in unexpected ways. Finally on the TV front, The Great Indian Kapil Show will return for a fifth season of talk.
An expansive film slate includes Ritest Shah’s thriller Ghooskhor Pandat, about a bent police officer who finds himself in the middle of global conspiracy; Rahul Dholakia Hum Hindustani, following a team of officials in a newly independent India; Pulkit’s crime drama Kartavya, starring Saif Ali Khan; and the third instalment of film anthology Lust Stories. Dark comedy Maa Behen follows a mother from a conservative community and her two trouble-making daughters who are caught in a situation with a dead body in their kitchen.
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