Netflix India is pairing a 1990s Bollywood name with one of the country’s most consistent OTT production houses. Urmila Matondkar will headline an untitled series produced by TVF, with the story set in and around the Indian Institutes of Technology, according to What’s on Netflix. Production has begun, Netflix has declined to comment, and the team is targeting a mid-2027 premiere.
What’s confirmed
- Project: untitled Netflix India original produced by TVF
- Role: Urmila Matondkar as a principal
- Setting: Indian Institutes of Technology
- Creative team: directed by Divyanshu Malhotra, written by Puneet Batra
- Status: shooting has commenced; mid-2027 premiere targeted
- Netflix declined to comment
The show is TVF’s third Netflix collaboration, following Kota Factory Season 2 and Season 3, and Hello Bachchhan. Matondkar will play a principal; the wider ensemble has not been revealed. Director Divyanshu Malhotra and writer Puneet Batra are reuniting after TVF’s 2018 coming-of-age romance Flames. Malhotra’s TVF credits include Cubicles and Sixer, while Batra has written for Kota Factory, Operation MBBS and Court Kacheri.
Why the casting matters
Matondkar was one of the most prominent Bollywood actresses of the 1990s and 2000s, with a filmography that includes Rangeela, Satya, Indian, Judaai, Ek Hasina Thi and Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya. Her last substantial lead role was the 2014 Marathi film Ajoba; her most recent film appearance was a song in Blackmail in 2018. Outside this project, she is preparing for the 14-episode revenge thriller Tiwari, which is in post-production and targeting a February 2027 release on a major streaming platform.
For Netflix India, the team-up brings two audience layers into one title: older viewers who associate Matondkar with a strong theatrical era, and younger audiences that TVF has built through campus and small-town stories such as Kota Factory, Panchayat, Gullak, Aspirants, Yeh Meri Family and TVF Pitchers. Setting the show around IITs also aligns with the education-aspiration theme that has worked for TVF and for Netflix’s youth-facing slate in India.
Media-planning read
No budget, episode count or viewership baseline has been disclosed, so this is a programming signal rather than a ratings event. For media planners and content marketers, it points to a mid-2027 contextual opportunity linked to institutional education and youth aspiration. The key details to track are format, episode count, and whether Netflix positions the title for brand-funded or ad-supported inventory. TVF’s broader expansion into theatrical with The Vvaan: Force of the Forest, releasing September 25, reinforces the banner’s move from streaming IP toward cross-platform scale—another factor brand partners may weigh when evaluating TVF originals.
Source: What’s on Netflix
