Led by powerful performances from Keerthy Suresh and Radhika Apte, the matriarchal neo-noir flips crime-saga tropes on their head, showing that power’s corrupting pull isn’t gender-coded. Keerthy Suresh and Radhika Apte star in Akka, a Netflix crime thriller set in a fictional South Indian town ruled by women. Netflix' new series Akka, featuring Keerthy Suresh and Radhika Apte, has two powerful women pitted against each other.