Netflix 2026 Slate: Sunny Deol Faces a Deal With the Devil in Legal Thriller 'Ikka'

As Netflix rolled out its 2026 slate, the streamer put the spotlight on Ikka, a hard-hitting legal drama that promises moral peril over courtroom theatrics. Headlined by Sunny Deol and Akshaye Khanna, the film sets up a combustible face-off between two men bound by a shared past and a case that threatens to dismantle what remains of their convictions.

Ikka follows a celebrated, incorruptible lawyer who is coerced into defending a murder accused—the very man whose career he once destroyed. The brief is not just professionally humiliating but existentially dangerous: if he loses, he risks forfeiting everything he holds dear. What unfolds is a trial that forces him to weaponise the law itself, bending ethics, alliances and memory in a high-stakes bid for survival.

At the slate announcement, co-stars Tillotama Shome and Dia Mirza spoke warmly about Deol’s old-school discipline on set. Shome recalled a moment emblematic of his work ethic: during a take, a fly hovered persistently near Deol’s eye. He didn’t call cut. He didn’t flinch. He stayed in character, unwilling to break Shome’s rhythm. “That kind of conviction,” Mirza noted, “sets the tone for everyone else.”

Directed by Siddharth P. Malhotra and written by Althea Kaushal and Mayank Tewari, Ikka is produced by Alchemy Films, with Siddharth and Sapna Malhotra producing. The ensemble also includes Sanjeeda Shaikh, Shishir Sharma and Akansha Ranjan.

The team behind the film describes it as a “deeply personal” project, years in the making, driven by ideological clashes and emotional fallout rather than easy heroism. At its core is a father’s desperate attempt to protect his family, even if it means entering a deal with the devil. With Netflix backing the project after the success of Maharaj, Ikka positions itself as a relentless, character-led thriller—one that asks not who is guilty, but what innocence costs when the law itself becomes a battleground.