Netflix, the American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service, said that series and movies from India clocked over one billion views on Netflix in 2023 on Friday.
A Netflix Engagement Report
Further Netflix said that “Jaane Jaan” is the most watched film and “The Railway Men” is the most watched series, in its second engagement report.
All this was highlighted in the report, titled “What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report”.
This report seems to present the streaming service’s viewership data for the period of July to December 2023.
It appears that the subscribers across the world watched over 90 billion hours of content on Netflix in the second half of 2023.
The ace performers included Sujoy Ghosh’s “Jaane Jaan” was the most watched movie on Netflix with 20.2 million views from India.
It is followed by Shah Rukh Khan’s “Jawan” with 16.2 million views and Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Khufiya” with 12.1 million views.
Besides this, 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).
Series & Movies Made The Highlights
When it comes to 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 other series include the 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak, which attracted 10.6 million views.
Further, 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).
These findings also indicate that non-English shows and movies are very popular with Netflix subscribers globally.
Hence, making up nearly a third of all viewing, as per the report.
The share includes Korean (with nine per cent of viewing), Spanish (seven per cent) and Japanese (five per cent) language stories which has captured the biggest share of viewing outside of English.
Moving ahead, this report also highlighted stand-out titles such as “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.
When it comes to the most watched movie, the title on Netflix was “Leave the World Behind”, starring Ethan Hawke and Julia Roberts.
This generated 121 million views, followed by Adam Sandler’s animated film “Leo” (96 million views).
Coming to the series side, anime-inspired live action series “One Piece” attracted 72 million views.
This report also mentioned the fan favorites including original titles such as “Wednesday”, “Red Notice” and “Squid Game”.
These favorites continued to bring in millions of views in 2023, long after they premiered on Netflix.
