Daayra on Netflix November 13: Kareena Kapoor and Prithviraj Sukumaran’s Crime Drama Gets Its Second Chance
Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra gets its second chance on Friday. The crime drama starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran streams on Netflix from November 13, eight weeks after its theatrical release on September 18 — and for a film that struggled to find its audience in cinemas, the streaming premiere is the moment that matters.
Daayra pairs two of Indian cinema’s biggest stars for the first time, on opposite sides of the same case. Prithviraj plays DCP Raman Kumar, the officer who leads a police encounter that makes him a national figure; Kareena plays DCP Ajooni Kohli, the internal vigilance officer sent to investigate it. The film draws on the 2019 Hyderabad Disha case and the encounter that followed, and asks the uncomfortable question at the heart of it: where does lawful justice end and instant punishment begin? Jitendra Joshi and Kanwaljeet Singh co-star, and the film was produced by Junglee Pictures and Pen Studios.
In theatres, the film earned praise for its lead performances but struggled at the box office, closing its run well short of the impact its subject deserved. Its trailer, released on August 31, has since crossed 45 million views, according to the makers — a sign that curiosity about the film never went away, even when the theatrical numbers disappointed.
That gap between interest and ticket sales is exactly why the Netflix premiere matters. Daayra is a serious, issue-led drama about a case every Indian viewer remembers, and that is precisely the kind of film that finds its real audience at home, where viewers choose it deliberately rather than on a Friday-night impulse. The same pattern is playing out across the aisle this Friday: Ranabaali, the period drama that underperformed in cinemas, also lands on Netflix on November 13 — we covered its confirmed premiere here: https://filmverse.in/ranabaali-netflix-premiere-confirmed-november-13-vijay-deverakonda-rashmika/ Two films, two second chances, one Friday.
For Kareena, Daayra is a return to the kind of restrained, interior performance that defined her most acclaimed work; for Prithviraj, it is another commanding turn in a year of heavyweight roles. Whether the film finally finds the audience its trailer promised will be decided not in a first-weekend chart, but in Netflix’s viewing lists over the coming weeks.
Watch the official trailer below:
Daayra streams on Netflix from November 13, 2026.
Source: Netflix India, Behind Talkies, 123Telugu and Pen Movies.
