As we strategy the top of August, OTT platforms have ramped up their content material output, providing ample choices for folks to binge-watch exhibits and films all through the weekend. Nobody desires to waste time scrolling by streaming apps for hours, and so, we have come again with a listing of movies and exhibits that’ll preserve you entertained. The brand new Star Wars live-action collection Ahsoka is definitely the standout, with Rosario Dawson returning to analyze an rising menace within the galaxy far, far-off. It is already out on Disney+ Hotstar. In the meantime, on the Indian content material entrance, we have Weapons & Gulaabs, the retro-style crime-comedy from Raj & DK that blends romance, motion, and nostalgia right into a high-quality paste.
For Indian hip-hop followers, we have Bajao, which navigates the Punjabi pop music trade by way of the eyes of three younger filmmakers who’ve discovered themselves in massive hassle. The collection marks rapper Raftaar’s performing debut, and is now streaming on JioCinema. On the film facet, the Gal Gadot and Alia Bhatt-led Coronary heart of Stone is a serious one, persevering with its #1 world rank, as per Netflix’s charts.
With that, this is a information on what to look at this weekend:
Ahsoka
When: Now streaming
The place: 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 Common 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 pupil Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) — an skilled on explosives — who was deserted mid-training and subsequently has a bone to select along with her grasp. Finishing the trio of returning Star Wars Rebels characters is the Twi’lek ace pilot Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), navigating the celebs by way of her starship ‘Ghost.’
The collection may even pit Ahsoka in opposition to her former grasp Anakin Skywalker, who we all know will finally flip to the darkish facet and be referred to as the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Hayden Christensen might be reprising that position, presumably pertaining to his causes for abandoning Ahsoka a few years prior. In the meantime, the darkish drive honing Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) and his pupil Shin (Ivanna Sakho) function different main hurdles in Ahsoka’s path to saving the delicate New Republic.
The primary two episodes of Ahsoka are actually 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
The place: 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.
Sure, that final half is kind of harking back to Todd Phillips’ The Hangover, and I would not be shocked if the lacking rapper had been proper underneath their noses your complete time.
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Satyaprem Ki Katha
When: Now streaming
The place: Amazon Prime Video
Kartik Aaryan stars on this musical love story as Satyaprem aka Sattu, a good-for-nothing legislation faculty dropout, who all the time goals — actually — about getting married to a ravishing girl, however will get rejected for being jobless. Nonetheless, the realisation would not strike him laborious till a lot later, when he encounters a mesmerising dancer Katha (Kiara Advani), who’s manner out of his league and is trying to marry the perfect 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 grow 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).
Coronary heart of Stone
When: Now streaming
The place: Netflix
After partaking in a smooth heist in Netflix’s Pink Discover, Gal Gadot is now slipping into the position of Rachel Stone, a global spy working for the Constitution, an elusive group with no political leanings that depends on a mysterious asset known as ‘The Coronary heart’ for its day-to-day duties. It is principally 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.
Coronary heart of Stone additionally stars Jamie Dornan (Belfast) because the MI6 agent Parker, Matthias Schweighöfer (Military of the Lifeless) because the Constitution’s tech specialist ‘Jack of Hearts,’ and Sophie Okenedo (Lodge Rwanda) as its chief Nomad.
Weapons & Gulaabs
When: Now streaming
The place: Netflix
Weapons & Gulaabs serves as an ode to Bollywood within the mid-90s, focusing its sights on a fictional cartel-run city known as Gulaabganj, the place a bunch of outlandish characters attempt making a reputation for themselves. Amongst them, we have Rajkummar Rao’s (Monica, O My Darling) Paana Tipu, a lovesick mechanic distraught by his father’s loss of life, who murders a few thugs by shoving a spanner down their throats. Therefore 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. Including some spice to this interconnecting drama is a neighborhood goofy murderer named ‘4 Reduce Aatmaram’ (Gulshan Devaiah), infamous for killing his victims with 4 stabs of a switchblade. He by no means breaks his rule.
Including 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 is 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 by the eyes of three schoolmates. Including to its aura are the classic titles, pop-culture references, and a few classical music suited to the time interval to finest immerse you in Raj & DK’s newly-crafted world.
Aakhri Sach
When: August 25 (Now streaming)
The place: Disney+ Hotstar
Onerous-nosed investigative officer Anya (Tamannaah Bhatia) is summoned to unravel 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 is predicated on the notorious real-life Burari deaths from 2018, the place it was concluded that the household had dedicated mass suicide. Whereas going about her investigation, Anya discovers an odd connection between the home’s structure with the member of the family rely — there are 11 home windows, 11 doorways, and 11 odd pipes peeking out of a wall, making for a reasonably perplexing case. The one strong account she has is a set of diaries maintained by the members of the family.
Robbie Grewal — finest identified 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.
