Gandhari has pulled in 5.9 million views globally in its first week on Netflix, putting the Taapsee Pannu action thriller at No. 2 among Indian Netflix original films by opening-week viewership. Bollywood Hungama reported the numbers on Wednesday, and they put the film in rare company.

Only Do Patti sits ahead of it. That Kajol-Kriti Sanon thriller opened in October 2024 with 17 million views in its first week, a number Gandhari hasn't come close to touching. But everything else on the list, it's cleared. Jaane Jaan, which dropped in September 2023, managed 4.4 million views in its opening week. Darlings, from August 2022, pulled 411,538. Gandhari has more than doubled the former and lapped the latter several times over.

The film released on September 3. A week later, it's sitting at No. 3 on Netflix's global chart and trending in 68 countries, a spread that seems to have caught even its lead actor off guard.

"Thank you for global love. I could hardly sleep for the last few nights because I didn't know how to assess how many people were watching our film," Taapsee said, reacting to the figures. "But now I know that the film is trending in 68 countries and is currently at No. 3 worldwide. It's trending in some countries whose names I can't even pronounce correctly! Thank you so much for all the love. I'm really overwhelmed."

That's not the tone of someone who expected this. Gandhari was pitched, going in, as an action-heavy vehicle for Taapsee, the kind of role that gets talked about for the stunt work before anyone mentions the plot. It's worked. The physical demands of the part and the action sequences have become a running thread in the film's press cycle, and now the numbers are backing up the noise.

What's less clear is whether Gandhari holds its position or slides as newer titles land on the platform. Netflix's own opening-week charts tend to get reshuffled fast, and a second week of steady viewership matters more than a strong first one. Do Patti's 17 million remains the number to beat, and right now nothing in Gandhari's run suggests it's going to get there.

For Taapsee, though, this is the kind of validation that doesn't come around often. She's spent the last few years picking projects that split opinion, some landing, some not. A global No. 3 with trend charts across 68 countries isn't a small thing to put next to that. Whether Gandhari's second week builds on it or lets the momentum drop is the number everyone connected to the film will be watching next.