Ranked lists of what India is watching, what is popular this year, and what lands next — refreshed every month. Viewership figures are reported by named third parties and linked on every page; OTTweek does not measure viewing itself.
Al Pacino read Star Wars and could not follow it. Sean Connery read The Lord of the Rings three times and never got it. Aamir Khan passed on Darr; Shah Rukh Khan passed on Slumdog Millionaire. Fourteen roles that were offered and refused, each with the number the film finished on — and, in every case, the actor's own account of why.
A first-time director gets one film, usually a small one, and usually nobody notices. These twelve opened with a blockbuster instead. The largest of them grossed Rs 905 crore; the smallest cost Rs 5 crore and rewrote what a Telugu hero was allowed to be. Ranked on worldwide gross, filtered on the trade verdict.
Baahubali 2 got there first, in May 2017. Ten films have now done it, one of them in six days, and two of them are the same franchise released three and a half months apart. The full ledger, ranked on worldwide gross, with what each one cost and where to stream it in India.
Andaz Apna Apna was pulled from screens as a failure and is now the most quoted Hindi comedy ever made. Mera Naam Joker mortgaged R.K. Studios. Kaagaz Ke Phool ended Guru Dutt's directing career. Fifteen Indian films whose box office verdict and whose reputation point in opposite directions — and where to stream every one of them.
One Mumbai cinema has been playing the same film since October 1995. Sholay held a screen for 286 straight weeks. A Telugu film ran 1,000 days in a single hall in Kurnool. Eleven runs measured in years rather than weekends — and the reason the list is now closed for good.
Saiyaara made Rs 579 crore with two actors nobody had heard of. It is the largest debut launch Indian cinema has recorded, and it is not the only one that worked. Eleven debut films that took real money and stayed in cinemas long enough to earn it — and the big-grossing debuts that quietly did neither.
Jana Nayagan took 318 crore in July and has no streaming home. Dhamaal 4 has none either. The 2026 releases with no Indian OTT date yet, why the windows are getting longer, and what is known about each.
Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor shot half of Jab We Met after the relationship ended. Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone have made three films since theirs did. Eleven pairings where the romance ended and the work did not.
Toy Story 5 and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie both crossed $1 billion this year. Ne Zha 2 and Zootopia 2 are in the all-time top ten. The animated films rewriting the box office, and which of them stream in India.
A frying pan in Bigg Boss 13. "Baap pe mat jaana" over a plate of eggs in season four. Contestants thrown out mid-season for putting hands on each other. The Indian shows built on conflict, and the confrontations that defined each.
Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three are still booked for the same day in December, and neither studio has blinked. Ten major releases left this year, with dates, casts and what is actually at stake for each.
A $150 million desert epic that took $733,000. A $170 million Masters of the Universe reboot that got a sequel anyway. In a year with five billion-dollar hits, these are the films that went the other way.
No Kannada film has cleared 30 crore worldwide this year, four years after KGF: Chapter 2 took more than 1,200 — and only one of the year's six biggest has reached an Indian streaming service. The 2026 Sandalwood leaderboard.
Avengers: Endgame held the record for seven years. It lost it in July 2026 by about $3 million. The twelve biggest three-day debuts in box office history, and where to stream the ones that have reached streaming in India.
Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone fell for each other making Ram-Leela and have shared the screen five times since. Nine Hindi film couples, the films that put them opposite each other, and where to stream each one.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day took the biggest opening weekend in history from Avengers: Endgame. The Odyssey gave Christopher Nolan his first billion-dollar film outside Batman. Michael became the first biopic ever to cross $1 billion. A year of ceilings coming down.
It took fourteen years and a Homer adaptation to beat The Dark Knight Rises. All thirteen Nolan features ranked by worldwide gross, from $1.12 billion down to a debut made for $6,000 — and where to stream each in India.
Prince Narula and Yuvika Chaudhary met in the Bigg Boss 9 house and married three years later. Karan Kundrra and Tejasswi Prakash came out of season 15 and stayed. One couple got married inside the house on camera.
He was a child actor in a tsunami drama before he was Spider-Man, and in July 2026 he was Telemachus for Christopher Nolan and Peter Parker for Sony two weeks apart. The complete guide, in order.
From a Disney Channel sitcom at fourteen to Athena in Christopher Nolan's IMAX Odyssey, two Emmys and three films in 2026 alone. The complete guide to her work, in order.
Five films have already crossed $1 billion, led by Spider-Man: Brand New Day at $1.7 billion. The 2026 leaderboard through mid-August, with the India streaming home of every title that has one.
Avatar still leads at $2.92 billion, seventeen years on. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the newest entry in the top ten, and two of the fifteen biggest films ever made are Chinese animation. Where each one streams in India.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is on JioHotstar. Project Hail Mary is on Prime Video. Ten films from this year's Hollywood slate have already reached Indian streaming — and the two biggest have not.
Tom Holland and Zendaya met on a Spider-Man set and married nine years later. Nine more couples who are still together off screen, the projects that put them on screen as a pair, and where to watch each one in India.
Fifteen Indian films have cleared 100 crore worldwide this year, across four languages, and twelve of them already have an Indian streaming home. One leaderboard for the whole country, with the platform for each.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 15 added two million viewers in a week and took the top spot off India's Got Latent, which lost more than half its audience. Ormax StreamView's numbers for the week of 3 to 9 August.
Ted Lasso's fourth season, Reacher's fourth, Cocktail 2 and the 186-crore Welcome to the Jungle all reach Indian streaming this month. The dated August calendar, platform by platform.
Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna met on Geetha Govindam and married in Udaipur in February 2026. Eight more Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada couples, the films that introduced them, and where to stream each.
Eleven films, three live-action Peter Parkers, two Spider-Verse animations and $10.6 billion. No Way Home still leads, Brand New Day is closing, and Sam Raimi's original trilogy is now at the bottom half of the list. Where each one streams in India.
Tickets went on sale a year before release. The trailer played only inside cinemas. It is the first film ever shot entirely on IMAX 70mm — and only about 26 screens in America can project it properly. Everything behind 2026's strangest blockbuster, and the eight films that prepare you for it.
They met on a Spider-Man audition in 2016, married quietly a decade later, and spent the summer of 2026 in the two biggest films in the world — together in both. All five projects they have shared, plus what each is carrying alone this year.
Drishyam 3 and Vaazha II both cleared 230 crore, and six of the year's seven biggest Malayalam films are already on Indian OTT. The 2026 Mollywood leaderboard, with the platform for each.
Peddi cleared 330 crore, Jana Nayagan and Karuppu both cleared 300, and eight of the nine biggest Telugu and Tamil releases of 2026 are already on Indian OTT. The leaderboard, with the platform for each.
A year on, every one of 2025's ten biggest Indian films has reached an Indian streaming service. Dhurandhar, Kantara: Chapter 1, Chhaava, Coolie and the rest — the final leaderboard and where each one lives now.
Dangal still leads at close to 2,000 crore worldwide, but four of the ten biggest Indian films ever made have arrived since 2022. All ten are streaming in India right now — here is the leaderboard and the platform for each.
Eight Indian war and freedom-struggle films, ranked by worldwide gross, with the platform each one streams on in India today — from Border in 1997 to Dhurandhar: The Revenge in 2026.
Rajkumar Hirani's Pritam and Pedro has drawn 23 million viewers on JioHotstar and is the only Indian web series to pass 20 million this year. Ormax's numbers for the scripted originals India actually watched.
Dhurandhar: The Revenge cleared 1,852 crore worldwide and four other Hindi films crossed 180 crore. Here is the 2026 leaderboard, with the streaming home of each film where it has one.
The seven biggest non-sport streaming titles of the year so far in India, ranked on Ormax StreamView's mid-year viewership estimates.
Yash's Toxic, Mirzapur on the big screen, Awarapan 2, Batwara 1947 and Meghna Gulzar's Daayra. The confirmed dates for the rest of 2026, and what each one's streaming route is likely to look like.
The Raja Saab spent a reported 350 crore and recovered under 60% of it. A look at 2026's costliest theatrical misses across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam cinema — and the streaming second life most of them are now getting.
The T20 World Cup drew 246 million viewers on JioHotstar. India's biggest scripted hit of the half-year drew 38.5 million. Ormax's H1 2026 StreamView data shows a gap no drama came close to closing.
India's Got Latent season two drew 38.5 million viewers. Naagin, Taarak Mehta and Anupamaa still pull eight figures each on OTT. Ormax's H1 2026 numbers for the shows that never make the prestige lists.