With loads of movies and series releasing on Indian OTT platforms every month, it becomes an onerous task to browse through all the platforms to shortlist films to watch for your weekend binge-fest. And in that list, there are some relatively older films also which you might have missed. For this article, we have compiled a list of five must-watch thriller movies you can binge-watch on Disney Plus Hotstar this weekend.
Eega aka Makkhi (2012)
S.S. Rajamouli had directed this deftly executed fantasy thriller before the ‘Baahubali’ films and ‘RRR’. The film’s plotline follows a fireworks specialist man Nani (played by Nani), who falls in love with his beautiful neighbor Bindu (Samantha), a miniature artist. A powerful businessman Sudeep (played by Sudeep) wants Bindu at any cost and he kills Nani to get her. Soon after, Nani is reborn as a fly and decides to get revenge on the wicked industrialist.
Helmed by Sanjay Gupta, the film follows the story of a good-hearted but blind voiceover artist Hrithik Roshan and his blind wife Yami Gautam. Everything goes fine until tragedy strikes their happily married life when the wife is brutally assaulted by a politically connected goon. How the husband becomes a vigilante and plans an act of fitting revenge on those responsible, forms the rest of the film’s plot.
Ugly (2013)
Directed by Anurag Kashyap, the gritty thriller revolves around the kidnapping of a ten-year-old girl of a divorced couple. The film starts off with the girl getting kidnapped from the car of her biological father (Rahul Bhat), who is a struggling actor. The kidnapping case is investigated by the girl’s stepfather cop (Ronit Roy). In a race against time to find the missing girl, the character’s darker sides are revealed during the investigation. The film also features Vineet Kumar Singh and Tejaswini Kolhapure in important roles.
Vikram Vedha (2017)
The neo-noir thriller is inspired by the Indian folktale Vikram-Betaal. The film’s plot around the two titular characters – the tough and upright police officer Vikram (Madhavan) and the dreaded gangster Vedha (Vijay Sethupathi). The film starts off with Vedha voluntarily surrendering himself to the cops. The goings-on take an interesting turn when Vedha begins to play mind games with Vikram by narrating three different stories that makes the cop re-think the concept of good and evil. A Hindi remake starring Hrithik Roshan, and Saif Ali Khan is currently in the works.
Johnny Gaddaar (2007)
This was Sriram Raghavan’s second directorial after ‘Ek Hasina Thi’. Based on a French crime novel, the neo-noir thriller revolves around a gang of five morally corrupt people who hatch a plan to acquire drugs worth Rs.2.5 crores and then sell them for double the amount. However, the plan goes awry when one of them decides to steal the whole money for himself, leading to disastrous consequences. The five gang members were played by Dharmendra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vinay Pathak, Zakir Hussain, and Dayanand Shetty.