Imtiaz Ali’s crime drama She 2 has made Netflix’s Global Top 10 List!

The new sea­son of Imti­az Ali’s crime dra­ma SHE is trend­ing on Net­flix’s Glob­al Top 10 list. The series is one of the most watched non-Eng­lish titles this week and has become a HUGE crowd favorite with­in two weeks of its release, rank­ing in the top 10 out of 11 coun­tries. The series has been watched for more than 9.5 mil­lion hours. The series was also #1 on Net­flix Indi­a’s Top TV list this week.

The mul­ti-lay­ered sto­ry and nuanced por­tray­al of a gen­tle woman dis­cov­er­ing her con­fi­dence and sex­u­al­i­ty has gar­nered pop­u­lar­i­ty and admi­ra­tion from audi­ences across coun­tries and cul­tures. SHE S2 fea­tures a tal­ent­ed ensem­ble cast includ­ing Aadi­ti Pohankar, Kishore Kumar G, Vish­was Kini, Shiv­ani Ran­gole, Sam Mohan, Suhi­ta That­te, among oth­ers. Aadi­ti repris­es her dar­ing role as Bhu­mi­ka Pardeshi (Bhu­mi), a police offi­cer who goes under­cov­er as a sex work­er to uncov­er the mys­ter­ies of the dark alleys of Mum­bai’s underworld.

SHE S2 was writ­ten and cre­at­ed by Imti­az Ali, direct­ed by Arif Ali and pro­duced by Via­com 18 Stu­dios’ Tip­ping Point and Win­dow Seat Films. The sec­ond sea­son fea­tures Bhu­mi in a dynam­ic new avatar. Lead­ing a dou­ble life, the pro­tag­o­nist Bhu­mi con­stant­ly strug­gles between duty and desire, jug­gling respon­si­bil­i­ties, try­ing rela­tion­ships and sup­pressed secrets.

Series writer and showrun­ner Imti­az Ali says, “I’m thrilled with the reac­tion because I feel like the under­ly­ing con­flict of ‘you’ is very sub­tle and inter­nal. It’s about a woman who feels she has no sex­u­al skills, and when she has to act as a sex work­er as part of her duty, she dis­cov­ers that what used to be her great­est dis­ad­van­tage becomes her great­est weapon. Some­thing so inti­mate and sub­tle has res­onat­ed with glob­al audi­ences and that is a source of great joy and hope for me. It encour­ages me to come up with more inter­est­ing, if sub­tle, sto­ry ideas in the future.”

SHE: In Sea­son 2, Bhu­mi con­tin­ues to dis­cov­er him­self and explore themes of sex­u­al awak­en­ing and dual­i­ty. She’s utter­ly com­pelling in the way she plays the dual risks of being the hunt­ed and the hunt­ed as she delves deep­er into the com­plex web of Nayak’s schemes while seam­less­ly foil­ing Fer­nan­dez’s suspicions.

Over the last 6 months, Net­flix’s Indi­an series have been con­sis­tent­ly pop­u­lar with a glob­al audi­ence, start­ing with Aranyak, Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein, The Fame Game and most recent­ly Mai.