Aryan Khan’s Ba**ds of Bollywood breaks into Netflix’s global top 10, beats Black Warrant and Kapil Sharma but trails HeeramandiAryan Khan’s Ba**ds of Bollywood breaks into Netflix’s global top 10, beats Black Warrant and Kapil Sharma but trails Heeramandi

The Ba***ds of Bollywood, Aryan Khan’s expensive debut series, took fourth place on Netflix’s global chart for non-English shows, according to the streaming service’s latest viewership statistics. The satirical comedy, set in an exaggerated version of the Hindi film industry, accumulated 2.8 million views in its first week, and finished behind the Korean mega-hit Bon Appetit, Your Majesty; Billionaires’ Bunker; and The Dead Girls. Billionaires’ Bunker, which was created by the same guys who created Money Heist, received 3.7 million views in its first week, which is about half of what Bon Appetit received in its fifth week.

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Heeramandi, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, came in second on the same chart last year after receiving 4.5 million views in its first week of release. Despite being acquired and not produced in-house, The Ba***ds of Bollywood is arguably the largest Indian original series Netflix has published since then. Lakshya Lalwani plays the major part of a budding Bollywood star in the program, which has gotten mostly good reviews. Raghav Juyal plays his best friend, Mona Singh plays his mother, and Anya Singh plays his manager. Important supporting parts are played by Bobby Deol, Sahher Bambba, Manoj Pahwa, Manish Chaudhary, and Karan Johar.

The Ba***ds of Bollywood outperformed international series like Love is Blind: France, Two Graves, You and Everything Else, and Maledictions in the last week. In its seventh week, the second season of Wednesday received 7.2 million views on the English-language list, while the recently released Black Rabbit received 6.6 million views. Interestingly, the breakout hit Adolescence, which swept the Emmys last week, had a spike in viewership. It ended up doing better than The Ba***ds of Bollywood, gathering 3.6 million views, despite having a shorter run time.

Maamla Legal Hai debuted with 1.1 million views in week one, while this year’s Black Warrant and Saare Jahan Se Acha had 2.3 million views, and Mandala Murders debuted with 1.9 million views. The Ba***ds of Bollywood made the top 10 list in 14 countries, including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Canada, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates. The Ba***ds of Bollywood’s first week viewership is comparable to that of The Great Indian Kapil Show last year, which had 2.5 million views.