Shahid’s OTT debut, Ajith’s bumper hit, and lots of romance. Sukanya Verma gives you some OTT recommendations for the week.
Farzi
Where to watch? Amazon Prime Video
Language: Hindi
Shahid Kapoor and Vijay Sethupathi headline Raj & DK’s cat-and-mouse game — co-written by former Rediff.com colleague Sita R Menon and Sumant Kumar — between a down-on-luck artist whose expertise in printing fake currency catches a counterfeit crisis task force officer’s eye in Amazon Prime Video’s eight part series.
Dhuin
Where to watch? Mubi
Language: Maithili (with subtitles)
Achal Mishra follows up his acclaimed and lyrical Gamak Ghar with Dhuin about a small town theatre actor’s aspirations to make it big in Mumbai.
You Season 4
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: English
Predominantly set in London and Paris, Penn Badgley returns in a new, improved avatar for the fourth season of the dark, psychological thriller. Only old habits die hard.
Your Place or Mine
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: English
Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon attempt to revive the rom-com genre as chalk and cheese besties swapping homes only to learn a little more than they care in Your Place of Mine.
Don’t Worry Darling
Where to watch? Amazon Prime Video
Language: English
Olivia Wilde’s directorial effort, which made more news for its casting woes and reported feud between Wilde and her leading lady Florence Pugh, stars the latter as a 1950s housewife engaged in a Utopian experimental community.
Thunivu
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: Tamil (with subtitles)
Ajith slips into gangster mode for his blockbuster Tamil heist masala.
The Exchange
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: Arabic (with subtitles)
Inspired by true events in 1980s Kuwait, two women take on the male-dominated stock industry by storm.
The World After Us
Where to watch? Mubi
Language: French (with subtitles)
A young author navigates love and life in this charming tale about artists trying to come into their own in modern-day Paris.
Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Where to watch? Disney+Hotstar
Language: English
A teen superhero and T-rex join hands to save New York’s vulnerable neighbourhoods from all kinds of evil.
Somebody I Used to Know
Where to watch? Amazon Prime Video
Language: English
In this Alison Brie comedy, a workaholic bumps into her ex and his fiancé-to-be, resulting in all kinds of chaos and confusion in her head and heart.
My Dad the Bounty Hunter
Where to watch? Netflix
Language: English
When the kids learn the outer space bounty hunter under that cool helmet is their daddy, it’s adventure time for an entire course of 10 fun-filled episodes.
