Netflix’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Replacement Surges Onto Global Streaming Charts

Two months after its theatrical debut in July, one of the highest-grossing Hindi-language Bollywood films of the year, Saiyaara, debuted on Netflix and immediately found a spot for itself on the global viewership charts. The movie emerged out of nowhere to become a blockbuster hit, defying recent market trends and earning an ecstatic response from audiences. The romantic drama proved to be exactly the kind of counter-programming that the Bollywood landscape was looking for, amid big-budget action films and a string of high-profile failures this year. Saiyaara follows in the tradition of Hollywood romances such as the 1970 classic Love Story, and the more contemporary The Fault in Our Stars.