Top OTT releases of the week 

MovieBuffs Assemble! If you are looking for something to watch this weekend and don’t want to keep browsing the whole time, we have got you covered. The following is a list of the most recent OTT releases on various platforms. Stay cool at home and enjoy these new releases to beat the heat outside.  

1. Bachchhan Paandey

Platform: Amazon Prime Video 

Release: 15 April 

The film was released in theaters on March 18 and received mixed reviews. The Akshay Kumar and Kriti Sanon starrer is scheduled to be released on the OTT platform. What happens when a struggling filmmaker and actor set out to make a biopic on a dangerous criminal? They had no clue how crazy and deadly the project would turn out to be. The sneaky attempts to do research on the gangster’s life, however, backfires when found snooping. 

The movie also stars Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez, Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh. Farhad Samji directed the film. Bachchan Paandey is a remake of Karthik Subbaraj’s Telugu film Jigarthanda. 

2. Mai 

Platform: Netflix 

Release: 15 April 

Series created by Atul Monga features Sheel, played by Sakshi Tanwar, a mother who watched her daughter get hit by a truck. Unable to accept the accident, the woman transforms into a lethal force, going from meek to merciless in her pursuit of the truth. The upcoming web series features Sakshi Tanwar, Raima Sen and Vivek Mushran in the lead roles. 

3. James 

Platform: Sony Liv OTT

Release: 14 April 

James is a Kannada-Language Movie. Santosh Kumar aka James works as a manager at WINGS – a security agency. A happy go lucky person enters into a dark market where he meets the power brokers and businessmen who were much active in crime syndicate. This was Puneeth Rajkumar’s last movie.

Apart from Rajkumar, Priya Anand, Shivaraj Kumar, R Sarathkumar, Srikanth Meka, and Adithya Menon play important parts in this film.

4. Choose or Die 

Platform: Netflix OTT

Release: 15 April 

A broke student who plays an obscure 1980s survival computer game in the hopes of winning a $100,000 reward that has gone unclaimed. She quickly realizes she’s no longer playing for the money, but for her own life, after a sequence of surprisingly scary incidents. Iola Evans and Asa Butterfield feature in this dark and savage thriller.

5. Anatomy of a Scandal 

Platform: Netflix 

Release: 15 April 

The political drama centers on a politician’s rich and influential wife, who uncovers a scandal in which her husband is accused of a secret crime. The drama stars Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, Rupert Friend, Josette Simon and Naomi Scott in pivotal roles. 

6. Death on the Nile 

Platform: Netflix  

Release: 15 April 

When a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short, Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer. This story of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed Travellers, as well as enough wicked twists and turns for a shocking denouement.

The film stars Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey, Letitia Wright, Rose Leslie, and Ali Fazal, and is a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017). 

7. GaaliVaana  

Platform: Zee5 

Release: 14 April 

GaaliVaana is a crime thriller/family drama that is based on the BBC’s European show One of Us. 

The proceedings begin with the gruesome murder of a daughter and son-in-law, and what follows is suspense surrounding the killer. While the family tries to come to terms with the loss, an investigation is underway to discover the killer.

The show marks the digital debut of veterans Sai Kumar and Radhika Sarathkumar. It also stars Chandini Chowdary, Chaitanya Krishna, Ashrita Vemuganti.  

Edited By: Aaradhana Singh

published by: Akshaj Joshi