 "saiyaara")
Yash Raj Films’ Saiyaara, featuring debut actors Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda in lead roles, and Aryan Khan’s first directorial project, The Ba***ds of Bollywood, have topped IMDb’s lists of the most popular Indian films and series this year.
Saiyaara was followed by the mid-budget animated film Mahavatar Narsimha, which surprised the industry with its box office collection. It also became the first animated movie to rank in an IMDb year-end Indian list, according to IMDb. The lists are based on page views from IMDb’s more than 250 million monthly visitors worldwide, who rely on the platform to discover and decide what to watch.
Maddock Films’ Chhaava, starring Vicky Kaushal as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, ranked third. The film was the highest-grossing film in India till September, with an overall box office collection of Rs 693 crore. Rishab Shetty’s Kantara: A Legend Chapter-1 ranked fourth and overtook Chhaava in October with a box office collection of Rs 735 crore.
In the most popular Indian series list, Black Warrant, a Hindi-language crime-drama thriller, ranked second after The Ba***ds of Bollywood. It was followed by season two of Paatal Lok and season four of Panchayat.
IMDb said seven of the 10 titles in the series list this year were crime thrillers, and six of them were either new seasons or extensions of existing franchises. Meanwhile, the most popular Indian movies list featured five Hindi films, followed by two Tamil titles, and one each in Kannada and Malayalam.
 "Tere Ishq Mein")
 "Farrhana Bhatt calls Gaurav Khanna 'undeserving'")
 "Kaantha box office collection")
 "Dhurandhar")
 "Top grossers")
