Netflix clearly has big plans for India, but it remains to be seen if it can still maintain its quality when it exponentially increases the content it’s churning out. In April this year, Netflix had said that around 15 new original Indian films are expected to be available to its members across the world by the end of 2020. Netflix, thus far, has commissioned around 40 original series and films in India, including fifteen original series and about two dozen original local-language films in India. Netflix, though, says that its original content isn’t popular only in India - Netflix has said that that two of the three viewers who watched Sacred Games were from outside India, and 27 million households have watched its animated show Mighty Little Bheem from overseas. Netflix has managed to produced some successful original content in India - Sacred Games, a thriller set in Mumbai, has earned its place in Indian pop culture with memes and jokes from the show scatted across the internet, and the company’s shows have also managed to give prominence to some fringe artists like Radhika Apte. With money like that, Netflix could unleash a whole new wave of original content that’s geared for the Indian audience. Netflix’s budget, for some context, is around the budget of 100 average Bollywood movies, which can cost between Rs.
This is the first time Netflix has disclosed its own content budget for the India market. You are seeing unbelievable and unrivaled levels of investment from global companies like Apple, Amazon, Disney, Viacom as well as local companies like Zee TV,” Hastings said. 3,000 crore on content programming over the next two years. A majority of this spend will be on original programming. “The next 5-10 years are going to be a golden age of television. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has said that Netflix will spend Rs. Despite the dangers, Amudha insists on traveling to Sri Lanka to find her birth mother.Netflix has just revealed its plans for India, and they’re jaw-droppingly big. Nine-year-old Amudha’s happy life in Madras is upended when she finds out her parents adopted her from a refugee camp as an infant. Released internationally as “ A Peck on the Cheek,” director Mani Ratnam’s award-winning drama Kannathil Muthamittal is set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Genre: War Drama | Added to Netflix: November 16 Kamal Haasan wrote and stars in the film, playing the socialist. Though an initial box office disappointment, Anbe Sivam became a beloved classic through TV reruns, celebrated for its humanism and altruistic themes. Two travelers stranded at an airport - one a socialist and the other a capitalist - must work together to get from Bhubaneswar to Chennai (a la Planes, Trains and Automobiles). Genre: Comedy, Drama | Added to Netflix: November 16
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