Here’s what you can watch online today.
Streaming platforms have upped their game in the last few weeks and have become our only source of entertainment as we stay at home during the extended lockdown period. Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Voot, Apple TV+ and many other streaming services have been releasing new titles, and have also upgraded their library to give us a wide variety of options.
Amazon Prime Video’s Paatal Lok, AltBalaji’s Baarish Season 2, Voot Select’s Illegal are some of the shows that will start streaming in the next few days.
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Apart from the new shows, films like Thappad (Amazon Prime Video), A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood (Amazon Prime Video), Psycho (Netflix) and Ad Astra (Disney+ Hotstar) among more are now streaming online. The entire Star Wars saga is also streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
Mentalhood is a depiction of modern mothers who are trying to get to the end of the day without going completely insane. Meira Sharma (Karisma Kapoor), Anuja Joshi (Sandhya Mridul), Preeti Khosla (Tillotama Shome), Deeksha Shah (Shruti Seth), Namrata (Shilpa Shukla) are the mothers who seem to be in a race. A race to become the best parent. But in their quest of perfection, their imperfections show. They are competitive. They put the pressure of their dreams on their children. They spy on their kids. And, all of this while being under the gaze of a society which easily blames everything wrong with a child on the mother. Read more
The Indian Express film critic Shalini Langer wrote about Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, "It’s through the two of them that the film also explores what is its strongest theme: that of unrequited love. Like others before them, and others sure to come after, they carry regrets about a special someone, and “what could have been”. Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan doesn’t evoke these memories with bitterness or anger but as one of those moments that make up a life."
The show — narrated by tennis legend John McEnroe — essentially is the story of 15-year-old Vishwakumar, a sophomore high-school student, who is trying to make a go at life while coming to terms with the recent death of her father. It has been created by Mindy Kaling. Read more here.
Welcome to the family of the crazies where every character exhibits their own unique trait. Monisha, Saahil, Rosesh, Indravadan and Maya love to rattle each other but also happen to adore each other despite their flaws.
What happens when great actors like Varun Badola and Shweta Tiwari come together on screen? The audience gets to watch a good show. Mere Dad Ki Dulhan is not your typical Indian TV show. At the heart of it is a beautiful relationship between a single father Amber (Badola) and his young daughter Niya (Anjali Tatrari). Niya wants to set up her father with someone. Enters a forty-something single woman Guneet Sikka (Tiwari), who starts living in Amber’s house as a tenant. Amber and Guneet cannot stand each other but unknowingly start liking each other on a dating app. Watch this show for an entertaining story and some brilliant performances. Read more
Based on the British crime drama series of the same name by Peter Moffat, Criminal Justice questions the loopholes in Indian criminal justice system. It stars Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi, Jackie Shroff, Anupriya Goenka and Mita Vashisht. The original series also inspired a brilliant HBO miniseries starring Riz Ahmed, Michael Kenneth Williams and John Turturro.
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Take a tour into the wild through this docu-series to experience the beautiful nature filled with amazing species and their survival methods, overcoming harsh climates, scarce food sources, and dwindling resources for shelter. An extremely captivating and educative series, Our Planet is a great pick for you and your kid to watch together.
Haven't seen probably one of the best comedy series to ever grace the telly? Perhaps this is the time, when you have all the time in the world. A remake of the British series of the same name, enter the hilarious world of Dunder Mifflin in The Office.
The animated series follows a mad but brilliant scientist Rick Sanchez and his naive, impressionable grandson Morty Smith's adventures across faraway galaxies, planets, parallel worlds, different realities and so on. Rick and Morty boasts some of the most intelligent writing in the medium currently, with jokes that are easy to miss if the attention wavers even a little. And before you have managed to wrap your head around it, the show has already moved ahead.
Hundred is about two women, Netra Patil (Rinku Rajguru) and Saumya Shukla (Lara Dutta). Netra, who works in the census department, is given the tragic news that she has a brain tumour. She has 100 days left. Saumya, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, is struggling to prove there is more to her than just being a woman. One day, their paths cross and thus begins the story of Hundred, a web series on Disney + Hotstar. Read more
The documentary Becoming chronicles Michelle Obama’s 34-city book tour in 2018-2019 for her best-selling memoir Becoming. It is described as “an intimate look into the life of former first lady Michelle Obama”.
A Vishal Bhardwaj film, Kaminey is a story of a rivalry between twin brothers, played by Shahid Kapoor, who are very different from each other. One of them lisps and other stutters. Priyanka Chopra essays the role of Sweety, a blunt Maharashtrian girl, who is the love interest of one of the two twins. If you have watched the film, you would have heard Priyanka speak a lot of Marathi and many don’t know before the film she hardly knew the language. The music of Kaminey became a rage and for the longest time after the film’s release, people attempted to replace 's' with an 'f' in their speech.
A cute and colourful series set in India, Mighty Little Bheem encompasses the perfect combination of comedy, adventure and mischief. It centres around a toddler version of the mythological character Bheem, who with his boundless curiosity and extraordinary might amazes his friends and everyone else around him. The series also comes with two specials centred around Holi and Diwali.
Bhaukaal, a 10-episode series, traces the real-life chapters of an IPS officer. Set in the hinterland of Uttar Pradesh in Muzaffarnagar, the series highlights how a police officer goes beyond his call of duty to eradicate organised crimes in the crime capital of India. The series is directed by Jatin Wagle and stars Mohit Raina, Abhimanyu Singh, Siddhanth Kapoor, Bidita Bag, Sunny Hinduja, Rashmi Rajput, Pradeep Nagar and Gulki Joshi in pivotal roles.
This series makes science fun and accessible to everyone. Each episode deals with a topic that is important for children (and adults!), such as social media, germs, dreams, among others. Children will learn through interactive experiments and games while having fun.
It is witty, funny and gives a new way to look at the world around us, especially the one inhabited by the so-called middle-class people. Biswa’s punch lines are smooth, his observations are hilarious and his delivery is on point. What more do you need from a stand-up really?
This is not your regular stand-up. In her hour-long set called Nanette, Australian comic Hannah Gadsby talks about her life as a queer woman, sexuality and her identity in the stand-up circuit. She forces us to think about things differently.
A group of teenagers from different cliques are thrown together in detention for a period of eight hours. They are ordered by their Assistant Principal Vernon (Paul Gleason) to not move around and write a 1000 word essay about who they think they are. Initially hesitant and wary of each other, the five teenagers — John, Claire, Andrew, Brian and Allison — in the end, find that despite their different interests and friend circles, they are not as dissimilar as they thought they were. Read more
Irrfan Khan plays Saajan Fernandes, a widower who has gotten used to his monotonous lifestyle until one day he gets a lunchbox with a personal note that wasn’t meant for him. He develops a pen friendship with Nimrat Kaur’s Ila and their delicate relationship takes the plot of the film forward.
Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla starrer is a perfect family entertainer. The story revolves around Rahul (Khan), the caretaker of his two nephews Vicky and Sunny and niece Munni. Rahul is tormented by Bijlani (Dalip Tahil) who wants to take over the former’s business. However, Bijlani is ready to let things slide if Rahul marries his daughter Maya. Amid this chaotic life, he has an unwanted guest at home, a Tamil girl called Vyjayanthi Iyer (Chawla). But because the children like her, he can’t let her go. Now, how he copes up with three naughty children, one prankster guest and two villains of his life, makes for the narrative of Hum Hai Rahi Pyar Ke.