‘Mirzapur’ tops IMDb’s decade-long Indian sequence chart with 9 appearances

Mumbai: ‘Mirzapur’ has emerged as essentially the most constant title on IMDb’s listing of in style Indian streaming sequence over the previous decade, showing on the platform’s annual Prime 10 chart 9 instances since its launch.

The web platform on Tuesday launched its new report, titled ‘10 Years of Streaming in India: An IMDb Report 2026’, which examines the ‘Prime 10 Most Common Indian Sequence’ for every year from 2016 to 2026, overlaying 110 chart positions and 64 distinctive titles. The rankings are based mostly on web page views generated by the sequence on ‘IMDb’, the Amazon-owned leisure database, which attracts greater than 250 million guests worldwide each month.

‘Mirzapur’ appeared on the annual charts 9 instances, whereas ‘Rip-off 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’ was the one sequence to function 5 instances regardless of having only one season. The year-wise rankings mirror the altering reputation of Indian sequence, with TVF’s ‘Pitchers’ topping the chart in 2016, adopted by Prime Video’s ‘Inside Edge’ in 2017 and Netflix’s ‘Sacred Video games’ in 2018 and 2019. ‘Rip-off 1992’ led in 2020, adopted by TVF’s ‘Aspirants’ in 2021 and ‘Prison Justice’ in 2022.

Prime Video’s ‘Farzi’ topped the 2023 chart, whereas ‘Mirzapur’ led in 2024. ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’ claimed the highest place in 2025 and ‘Pritam and Pedro’ emerged as the preferred Indian sequence in 2026 by way of October 15.

Crime and thriller titles accounted for 48 of the 110 positions, though horror, romance, comedy and drama gained floor within the later years. The platform-wise breakdown confirmed Prime Video with 31 chart entries throughout 14 distinctive mental properties, adopted by ‘Netflix’ with 21 entries throughout 18 titles and ‘JioHotstar’ with 19 entries throughout 10 titles.

‘YouTube’ and ‘SonyLIV’ every recorded 14 entries, with 11 and 5 titles, respectively.

‘YouTube’ additionally emerged as a launchpad for Indian sequence, with 13 of the 64 distinctive titles on the annual charts having originated on the video-sharing platform. ‘TVF’ was among the many most distinguished manufacturing homes, with 9 distinctive sequence accounting for 17 chart entries, or practically one in six positions.

Its presence on the rankings stretches from ‘Pitchers’ in 2016 to ‘Sapne vs Everybody’ in 2026. The report recognized actors Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Vikrant Massey, Jitendra Kumar, Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover amongst performers who’ve made recurring appearances throughout in style streaming sequence.

Kay Kay Menon, Naveen Kasturia and Mona Singh have been highlighted for his or her versatility throughout a number of exhibits, whereas Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Samantha, Barun Sobti and Karan Tacker have been cited amongst actors who’ve labored throughout completely different codecs and roles.

Regardless of the rise in viewers curiosity, the variety of new sequence and seasons commissioned in India has declined for 2 consecutive years. Commissions peaked at 202 in 2023 earlier than falling to 169 in 2024 and 145 in 2025. Hindi-language exhibits accounted for 66 per cent of Indian streaming originals in 2025.

The report estimates that viewers curiosity in Indian sequence has grown round 17-fold over the previous decade. “Constructing on the success of final yr’s report on Indian cinema, we turned our lens to sequence and used ‘IMDb Knowledge’ to know how a decade of streaming has reshaped viewers pursuits,” Yaminie Patodia, head of ‘IMDb India’, mentioned.

The report additionally incorporates views from trade executives, together with Gaurav Gandhi of ‘Prime Video’, Gunjan Soni of ‘YouTube’, Monika Shergill of ‘Netflix’, former Applause Leisure CEO Sameer Nair and Vijay Koshy of ‘TVF’.