Akka

Akka is an upcoming Netflix series created, written and directed by Dharmaraj Shetty, set to stream from 30 October 2026. The story unfolds in the 1980s in Pernuru, a fictional South Indian city built and ruled by generations of women. Two gangster queens, Bhavani (Keerthy Suresh) and Rudra (Radhika Apte), head a sisterhood that controls the city's underworld, until a mysterious outsider arrives and threatens their rule. The series tells an original fictional story as a period revenge thriller with a crime backdrop. Tanvi Azmi, Poornima Indrajith, Vishak Nair, Dinesh Prabhakar, Karthika Muraleedharan, Pooja Mohanraj and Urmila Krishnan are also in the cast. YRF Entertainment, part of Yash Raj Films, backs the project, with Aditya Chopra, Yogendra Mogre and Akshaye Widhani as executive producers. It is Dharmaraj Shetty's debut series as director-creator and is described as Keerthy Suresh's streaming debut. Netflix first announced Akka on 3 February 2025 through Next on Netflix India.