MUMBAI, June 10 -- The critics were split down the middle. The audience was not. Four days after "Maa Behen" landed on Netflix, Madhuri Dixit has the second most-watched non-English film in the world.

Netflix's own weekly chart, published in its global Top 10 data for the week of June 1 to 7, puts Suresh Triveni's black comedy at No. 2 among non-English films with 4.4 million views and 9.3 million hours watched. The film released only on June 4, meaning it earned that position in four days against the chart-topper's full week; the leader, "The Marked Woman," logged 6.6 million views across all seven.

The numbers settle, for at least one news cycle, the argument the film's reviews started. Indian critics ranged from one and a half stars ...