It’s the weekend! Time to unwind from work tensions and relax in the company of family, with great content to watch on streaming. Here’s making your life easier with a comprehensive list of all that’s streaming on Indian OTT this weekend. Check out the list and binge-watch the content you want!
Here goes –
Netflix
Dhamaka – Hindi film
Kartik Aaryan plays down-on-luck TV presenter Arjun Pathak in this Ram Madhvani thriller film. He gets a chance to get back into the limelight when a terrorist engages with him live on air, threatening to blow up the Worli Sea Link. Will he put aside his moral values for the sake of professional success, or will he do the right thing?
Hellbound – Korean drama
Demonic angels descend on earth to mete out punishment to sinners, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.
tick, tick … BOOM!: English film
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, promising young theater composer Jonathan Larson (Andrew Garfield) navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut.
Cowboy Bebop – English series
A live-action retelling of the popular anime. A bunch of bounty hunters hunt down the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals for the right price. An action-packed sci-fi thriller series.
Love Me Instead – Turkish film
A prisoner travels to his hometown to reconnect with his long-separated daughter, but a tragic truth threatens to derail the reunion.
The Mind, Explained – documentary series
The next in the excellent ‘Explained’ franchise, this docuseries delves into the human mind, what makes it work, and the science behind creativity, day-dreaming, anxiety, brainwashing and more.
Procession – Documentary film
Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys become a makeshift family and find empowerment by creating films inspired by their trauma.
Prime Video
The Wheel Of Time – Fantasy series
Rosamund Pike plays Moirraine, a powerful member of the mystical order of female magic users, called the Aes Sedai. She must shepherd five young people from the village of Two Rivers on a perilous journey, to fight the all-powerful ‘Dark One’.
Most Dangerous Game – English series
The Quibi original is now streaming on Prime Video. Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, a man (Liam Hemsworth) accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game in which he is not the hunter but the prey.
No Man’s Land – Malayalam film
Working as a housekeeper cum escort, Sumitra trudges along with her uneventful life in a resort at a hill station in Kerala. Haunted with self-pity, she finds solace in alcohol. But when two tourists are murdered at the resort, she must get her act together.
Disney Plus Hotstar
Cash – Hindi film
A satirical comedy on demonetisation. Amol Parashar plays a hustler in the film who hits upon the idea of earning a quick buck by helping people launder their hidden stash and convert it into the new currency by illegal means. His plans go awry when a powerful politician seeks his help.
Pon Manickavel – Tamil film
An action thriller, starring Prabhu Deva, along with Nivetha Pethuraj, late director J Mahendran and Suresh Menon. Helmed by AC Mugil Chellappan. Prabhu Deva plays a dashing police officer in the film, who doesn’t always play by the rules to catch the bad guys.
Adbhutam – Telugu film
A romantic and sci-fi drama that stars Teja Sajja (Zombie Reddy), Shivani Rajashekar, Satya, Tulasi, Mirchi Kiran, Shivaji Raja and Mandava Sai Kumar in pivotal roles. The romantic element of the film is interwoven with science fiction and fantasy, making it a unique offering in Indian cinema.
ZEE5
Oka Chinna Family Story – Telugu series
Set in the backdrop of a middle class family, the hassled father who single-handedly makes ends meet chides his good-for-nothing son to get his life on track, even as his mother loves him to a fault. When his father passes away, the mother and son must get together to tackle the financial mess he leaves behind.
MX Player
Matsyakaand – Hindi series
Matsya Thada (Ravi Dubey) is a conman who carries out cons with charm, wit and intelligence. However, relentless cop Tejraj (Ravi Kishan) is on the verge of capturing the felon.
Aha Video
Most Eligible Bachelor – Telugu film
A romantic comedy starring Akhil Akkineni and Pooja Hegde. Akhil Akkineni plays a US-returned bachelor in the hunt for a wife. Alas, the girl he falls for – a stand up comedian (Pooja Hegde) – is most disinterested in returning his affections.
SonyLIV
Your Honor Season 2 – Hindi series
Judge Bhishan Khosla (Jimmy Sheirgill) is back to save his son from new perils to his life, even if it means bending the law to save his son from the noose and a gangster thirsty for revenge. This time the stakes are higher, and the villains are larger than life, in the form of Gulshan Grover and Mahie Gill.
Churuli – Malayalam film
Lijo Jose Pellissery’s (of Jallikattu, Ee.Ma.Yau, Angamaly Diaries fame) next offering, Churuli falls into the genre of science fiction and suspense mystery. It centres on two cops who enter the village of Churuli to capture a notorious criminal, but get stuck in a time loop even as eerie mysteries unfold around them.
Hoichoi TV
Mandaar – Bengali series
Bengali star Anirban Bhattacharya reimagines Shakespeare’s Macbeth in a dark and gritty retelling of the classic. It is the actor’s directorial debut.
BookMyShow Stream
Waiting For Rain – Korean film
South Korean romantic drama, centred on a man and a woman who loved and lost each other. They regain their passion for life when they begin exchanging letters with their lost love.
Escape Plan 3: The Extractors – English film
Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista return in the third installment of the high octane action drama
Gate Crash – English film
A dark, twisted psychological thriller about a couple (Olivia Bonamy, Ben Cura) that gets embroiled in a hit and run accident, and Samuel West as a menacing witness to the hit and run. Only, evidence suggests that it isn’t an accident but a staged event.
Queen Of Spades – English film
A horror film about the titular evil entity who is summoned through an ancient ritual by four teenagers while playing a casual prank. It’s then a fight for survival for them as they must save their souls from being taken by the evil entity.
Flipkart Video
Kaun ? Who Did It? S3 – Series
Season 3 of the unique interactive crime thriller show starring Sushant Singh and Samvedna Suwalka.
Apple TV Plus
The Line S1 – English Docuseries
In covert modern warfare, the line between right and wrong has blurred. This docuseries examines the moral ambiguities of war as embodied by the 2018 case in which a US Navy SEAL platoon accused its chief, Eddie Gallagher, of war crimes.
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