As we method the tip of August, OTT platforms have ramped up their content material output, providing ample choices for individuals to binge-watch reveals and films all through the weekend. No one desires to waste time scrolling via streaming apps for hours, and so, we have come again with an inventory of movies and reveals that’ll maintain you entertained. The new Star Wars live-action collection Ahsoka is definitely the standout, with Rosario Dawson returning to analyze an rising risk within the galaxy far, distant. It’s already out on Disney+ Hotstar. Meanwhile, on the Indian content material entrance, we have Guns & Gulaabs, the retro-style crime-comedy from Raj & DK that blends romance, motion, and nostalgia right into a wonderful paste.
For Indian hip-hop followers, we have Bajao, which navigates the Punjabi pop music trade through the eyes of three younger filmmakers who’ve discovered themselves in massive bother. The collection marks rapper Raftaar’s performing debut, and is now streaming on JioCinema. On the film aspect, the Gal Gadot and Alia Bhatt-led Heart of Stone is a significant one, persevering with its #1 world rank, as per Netflix’s charts.
With that, here is a information on what to observe this weekend:
Ahsoka
When: Now streaming
Where: Disney+ Hotstar
Former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano makes her long-awaited live-action debut within the newest collection from Dave Filoni, as she embarks on a brand new journey to tackle General Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen), who’s poised to return because the inheritor to the Galactic Empire. Her effort is compounded by having to cope with her strained previous — particularly, her former scholar Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) — an knowledgeable on explosives — who was deserted mid-training and due to this fact has a bone to select along with her grasp. Completing the trio of returning Star Wars Rebels characters is the Twi’lek ace pilot Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), navigating the celebs through her starship ‘Ghost.’
The collection may also pit Ahsoka towards her former grasp Anakin Skywalker, who we all know will finally flip to the darkish aspect and be often known as the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Hayden Christensen might be reprising that function, presumably concerning his causes for abandoning Ahsoka a few years prior. Meanwhile, the darkish power honing Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) and his scholar Shin (Ivanna Sakho) function different main hurdles in Ahsoka’s path to saving the delicate New Republic.
The first two episodes of Ahsoka at the moment are streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. The remaining six will drop on a weekly foundation, each Tuesday, till October 3.
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Bajao
When: Now streaming
Where: JioCinema
A trio of younger aspiring filmmakers — Ved (Tanuj Virwani), Dhaari (Sahil Khattar), and Cookie (Sahil Vaid) — strike a cope with a problematic hip-hop icon Babbar (Raftaar) to make a music video that may herald his comeback to the rap scene. Their lives quickly take a disastrous flip when an evening of celebration turns to chaos, inflicting them to lose a bag of Rs. 2 crore in money, and the rapper lacking. With no recollection of their reminiscence and a 48-hour countdown, Bajao swells right into a twisted search and rescue mission, navigating hip-hop tradition and avenue crime, all of the whereas coping with a neighborhood gangster, whom the filmmakers seem to have wronged.
Yes, that final half is kind of paying homage to Todd Phillips’ The Hangover, and I would not be stunned if the lacking rapper had been proper beneath their noses your entire time.
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Satyaprem Ki Katha
When: Now streaming
Where: Amazon Prime Video
Kartik Aaryan stars on this musical love story as Satyaprem aka Sattu, a good-for-nothing regulation college dropout, who at all times desires — actually — about getting married to a stupendous girl, however will get rejected for being jobless. However, the realisation would not strike him arduous till a lot later, when he encounters a mesmerising dancer Katha (Kiara Advani), who’s means out of his league and is trying to marry the best husband — one thing Satyaprem is not.
That mentioned, destiny has completely different plans for him and the pair find yourself getting married, a lot to Katha’s dismay, forcing Sattu to enhance his methods and turn out to be a worthy husband, whereas being understanding of her darkish secret. Marking director Sameer Vidwans’ first Hindi-language movie, Satyaprem Ki Katha additionally stars Gajraj Rao (Maja Ma), Supriya Pathak (Rashmi Rocket), and Rajpal Yadav (Phir Hera Pheri).
Heart of Stone
When: Now streaming
Where: Netflix
After partaking in a modern heist in Netflix’s Red Notice, Gal Gadot is now slipping into the function of Rachel Stone, a world spy working for the Charter, an elusive group with no political leanings that depends on a mysterious asset referred to as ‘The Heart’ for its day-to-day duties. It’s mainly a strong AI that retains observe of an individual’s digital footprint to create information that helps predict potential world threats and ship odds of success in thwarting them. That prize quickly will get stolen by the mysterious hacker Keya Dhawan (Alia Bhatt), kickstarting a globetrotting hunt throughout the snowy mountaintops to even some dangerous airborne manoeuvres.
Heart of Stone additionally stars Jamie Dornan (Belfast) because the MI6 agent Parker, Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of the Dead) because the Charter’s tech specialist ‘Jack of Hearts,’ and Sophie Okenedo (Hotel Rwanda) as its chief Nomad.
Guns & Gulaabs
When: Now streaming
Where: Netflix
Guns & Gulaabs serves as an ode to Bollywood within the mid-90s, focusing its sights on a fictional cartel-run city referred to as Gulaabganj, the place a gaggle of outlandish characters strive making a reputation for themselves. Among them, we have Rajkummar Rao’s (Monica, O My Darling) Paana Tipu, a lovesick mechanic distraught by his father’s dying, who murders a few thugs by shoving a spanner down their throats. Hence the primary identify: Paana.
Then there’s Chhotu Ganchi (Adarsh Gourav), the reluctant inheritor to a drug empire, who struggles with transporting a considerable amount of opium and is hell-bent on making his father proud. Adding some spice to this interconnecting drama is a neighborhood goofy murderer named ‘4 Cut Aatmaram’ (Gulshan Devaiah), infamous for killing his victims with 4 stabs of a switchblade. He by no means breaks his rule.
Adding some normalcy to the in any other case cartoonish characters is the sincere narcotics Officer Arjun Varma (Dulquer Salmaan), who turns right into a chaos agent when requested to show corrupt and assist out with smuggling opium. It’s an all-around quirky story that jumps between its characters and focuses on worldbuilding within the first half earlier than issues fall into place to unfold a revenge arc, heartbreak, and the style of candy innocence via the eyes of three schoolmates. Adding to its aura are the classic titles, pop-culture references, and a few classical music suited to the time interval to greatest immerse you in Raj & DK’s newly-crafted world.
Aakhri Sach
When: August 25 (Now streaming)
Where: Disney+ Hotstar
Hard-nosed investigative officer Anya (Tamannaah Bhatia) is summoned to resolve a weird case, wherein the 11 members of a ‘common’ household have been discovered useless — 10 of them have been discovered hanging within the courtyard of their residence. Yep, this new Hotstar Specials present relies on the notorious real-life Burari deaths from 2018, the place it was concluded that the household had dedicated mass suicide. While going about her investigation, Anya discovers an odd connection between the home’s structure with the member of the family depend — there are 11 home windows, 11 doorways, and 11 odd pipes peeking out of a wall, making for a somewhat perplexing case. The solely strong account she has is a set of diaries maintained by the relations.
Robbie Grewal — greatest recognized for Romeo Akbar Walter — directs all episodes of Aakhri Sach, which additionally stars Abhishek Banerjee (Paatal Lok) as Anya’s junior officer, and Shivin Narang as a key suspect.
