Netflix India introduced its slate of titles for the approaching 12 months in a grand occasion in Mumbai on Tuesday. The streaming large unveiled a wide array of movies and reveals, together with returning reveals like Maamla Authorized Hai and The Nice Indian Kapil Present, to new ones resembling Operation Safed Sagar, together with new movies starring Madhuri Dixit, Saif Ali Khan, and plenty of extra A-list stars.
Monika Shergill, Vice President of Content material for Netflix India, opened up on the bold slate in an unique interview with Hindustan Instances, unpacking the vary and opening up on some surprises.
Monika Shergill on Netflix India’s 2026 slate
“I am very excited in regards to the 2026 slate as a result of it strikes forward of the 2025 slate, every little thing that we did in 2025 . This 12 months’s slate has so many new additions by way of the genres, by way of the type of codecs of storytelling that we’re experimenting with, and going into areas that we’ve not hadn’t programmed earlier than,” says Monika as she displays on the slate.
Speaking in regards to the specifics, Monika provides, “I can provide you a couple of examples, like from the largest titles like Taskaree to the completely contrasting Kohrra season 2. Nilanjana Puryakastha, the creator of Anupamaa, is adapting a telenovela for us. Then, our largest tentpole Operation Safed Sagar is on a mission of the Indian Air Power. Warfare dramas are seen as a site of the theatrical cinema. You will note that on streaming for the primary time ever. That actually displays our ambition.”
On Sunny Deol and Akshaye Khanna’s reunion in Ikka
One of many titles that jumped out from the slate is courtroom drama Ikka, directed by Siddharth P Malhotra. It brings again Sunny Deol and Akshaye Khanna collectively after nearly three many years. Speaking in regards to the casting coup, Monika says, “Ikka was very attention-grabbing. We have been very eager to do a courtroom drama, and a strong one, as a result of we have seen courtroom dramas achieve this properly on Netflix. Siddharth P Malhotra had an early draft, and we have been very enthusiastic about it. We sat down collectively, and labored on making it its finest model. We wished to forged two dynamic folks in it. We’d been having a dialog with Sunny Deol for a very long time about an unique movie. After which we simply began discussing who his antagonist can be. After Chhaava, we have been all simply desirous to forged Akshaye, and that is the way it occurred. So we thought, what if the 2 of them are collectively? Credit score to Sid, who did a variety of work to make it occur. I believe it will be a really distinctive expertise for folks.”
On bagging Lock Upp from MX Participant
However the largest shock of the evening was the captive actuality present Lock Upp, created by Ektaa Kapoor. The present was initially streamed on Amazon MX Participant and hosted by Kangana Ranaut. It now arrives on Netflix in a brand new avatar. Speaking about how that occurred, Monika tells us, “Lock Upp is our first captive actuality ever, and we’re bringing it in a brand new Netflix avatar, which goes to be a really massive differentiator on the service. I believe it is a quintessentially Indian format. There are issues we’re engaged on, which can convey the freshness to it.”
On the Subsequent on Netflix occasion on Tuesday, Ekta Kapoor addressed the platform shift on stage, when she stated, “The primary season was appreciated a lot that we knew we needed to make it larger, grander, and spicier. So we wanted to convey it to the largest platform on the earth.”