Taapsee Pannu's Gandhari just had the kind of second week most streaming originals never get near. The film pulled in 9.6 million views on Netflix between its seventh and fourteenth day, according to figures published on the platform's Tudum tracker, and that number is now the highest single-week tally ever logged by an Indian film on Netflix.

Gandhari premiered on September 3 and opened at No. 3 on the platform's global non-English chart with 5.9 million views. A week later it didn't just hold, it exploded. The jump from 5.9 million to 9.6 million works out to more than 60 per cent growth, and it was enough to send the film straight to No. 1 globally.

That kind of week-two spike is rare. Most films, on Netflix or anywhere else, lose steam once the opening rush of curiosity wears off. Gandhari did the opposite, and the comparisons Tudum's numbers throw up are telling.

Jaane Jaan, one of Netflix India's better-remembered thrillers, had managed 6.4 million views in its own second week. Gandhari's 9.6 million comfortably clears that. Darlings, the Alia Bhatt-led dark comedy that did solid business in its run, gets outpaced too, across both its first and second weeks combined, if the figures are taken at face value.

Then there's Dhurandhar. It isn't a Netflix Original, it went theatrical first and arrived on the platform later, but its streaming numbers have been tracked all the same. Dhurandhar opened with 7.6 million views in its first week on Netflix and climbed to 8.2 million in its second, according to the same Tudum data. Gandhari's 9.6 million second-week figure now sits ahead of that too.

Taapsee had already reacted once this run, when the 5.9 million opening-week number landed her at No. 2 among Indian Netflix originals. She said she'd barely slept the last few nights and called herself overwhelmed. That was before the second week numbers came in and moved her film to the top spot outright.

What this does for Gandhari beyond the leaderboard is the real question now. Netflix doesn't usually confirm sequels or spin-off plans off a single fortnight of data, and nothing of that sort has been said yet. But a No. 1 global ranking, especially one built on growth rather than a front-loaded opening, tends to get noticed inside the building. Whether that translates into anything concrete for Pannu or the makers is the thing to watch when the third-week numbers show up on Tudum.