Chintu Ka Birthday is streaming on ZEE5.
While the production of films is set to restart, it will still take a while to get the audience back to cinema halls. Things have changed, and now the digital space has taken centrestage. With new players joining the streaming space, competition is on the rise.
At the home front, MX Player and Voot Select have taken bold steps to attract more users. Voot Select especially has done a stand-up job of bringing to its viewers a plethora of content. Marzi, Illegal, Asur among more have managed to impress the audience and critics alike.
Meanwhile, the veterans like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix are looking to boost their user base by releasing highly-anticipated full-length features which were earlier supposed to grace the big screen. The Shoojit Sircar directorial Gulabo Sitabo, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana, will begin streaming on Amazon Prime Video from June 12.
Apart from these Bollywood flicks, the audience will have a hard time looking away from the screen as shows like 13 Reasons Why Season 4, Kehne ko Humsafar Hai and Queer Eye among more have begun streaming.
This Martin Scorsese directorial is about the rise and fall of mobster Henry Hill (a real figure) and stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta. The film is easily one of the best Scorsese film -- it is that good -- if not the best.
Adapted from Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning novel, The Goldfinch is about a young man Theodore Decker (Ansel Elgort) whose mother died in a museum bombing when he was 13 years old. The event changed his life and he became grief and guilt-ridden. He has only one tangible piece of hope in his life -- a painting of a goldfinch.
Despite its mixed critical reviews, The Mummy (1999) is simply one of the best adventure movies ever made. Brendan Fraser's Rick O'Connell is an American adventurer who accidentally awakens a cursed high priest Imhotep from the era of Seti I, a pharaoh that ruled Egypt around 3300 years ago. The special effects handled by Industrial Light & Magic still hold up superbly.
Helmed by Drew Goddard and co-written by him and Joss Whedon, The Cabin in the Woods is a subversive horror film that takes the hackneyed remote forest cabin premise of so many horror films and turns it on its head. The result is a smartly written and acted movie. Chris Hemsworth plays the role of Curt Vaughan, who is one of the college students who go on a vacation to that forest cabin.
A sitcom about a bunch of police officers in a New York precinct, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is continuously funny. The performances are great, and the uniquely written characters never let you get bored.
FX's horror comedy TV series What We Do in the Shadows revolves around the vampires’ clumsy and hilarious attempts to adjust to the modern world and with, ahem, people who eat food to sustain themselves instead. Helping them in the adjustment process is Guillermo, Nandor’s harried familiar who, due to lack of money or career opportunities, is stuck with the vampires who can consume him anytime they wish. Yep, it is all very crazy and also downright amazing.
A prequel of the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, Bates Motel tells the story of Normal Bates from when he was a kid. The acting is superb, both by Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as his mother Norma Bates. There is uneasy, almost incestuous tension between the duo and that is the biggest strength of this show. Sometimes scary and sometimes creepy, Bates Motel is a worthy prequel.
Elementary is a contemporary retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes starring Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson. The show follows Holmes, a recovering drug addict and former consultant to Scotland Yard, as he assists the New York City Police Department in solving crimes, where he is joined by Dr Watson.
This Bill Hader starrer is about an ex-United States Marine who now works as a ruthless hitman in the Midwest, but he does not like his job. He moves to Los Angeles for an 'assignment' and ends up in a community of people looking to make an entry into the LA theatre scene. The highly entertaining series is a seamless blend between the macabre and the hilarious.
Goldie Behl’s RejectX is a fast-paced thriller that revolves around the members of a music band. The second season of the show starts streaming on May 14. It stars Sumeet Vyas, Kubbra Sait, Anisha Victor, Ahmed Masi Wali and Ridhi Khakhar.
The science fiction thriller is the first ever German language Netflix original series. It is the story of a child who sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.
Post his Hathoda Tyagi act in Paatal Lok, Abhishek Banerjee is back in Kaali 2, his first Bengali web series. The story is about the journey of a woman who will go to any extent to protect her son. It also stars Paoli Dam and Vidya Malavade.
The Belgium crime daram series in French language revolves around a police detective who moves back to his peaceful hometown while mourning a painful loss only to be drawn into a murder case that dredges up dark secrets.
Chef Vicky Ratnani gives some easy recipes to shed those extra kilos in this cookery show, that includes five episodes.
Sharman Joshi and Asha Negi starrer Baarish 2 is currently streaming on ALTBalaji and ZEE5. In the first season, the audience saw Anuj and Gauravi falling in love and getting married. And now, they will witness the roller coaster journey of the couple as they face hurdles in their relationship.
Actor Ranvir Shorey plays Kalpesh in the sitcom Metro Park, which is back with a Quarantine Edition. The shot-at-home segment, which also stars Purbi Joshi and Omi Vaidya in pivotal roles, revolves around how Kalpesh (Shorey), Payal (Joshi) and Kannan (Vaidya) deal with the coronavirus pandemic and its consequence, the lockdown.
The 2019 thriller Crawl directed by Alexandre Aja had its digital launch. It's story revolves around Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper who play daughter-father. The duo gets trapped in their home and hunted by alligators during a Category 5 hurricane.
The zombie horror web series stars Viineet Kumar, Aahana Kumra and Suchitra Pillai in pivotal roles. It revolves around a village which is cursed by the spirit of an East India Company officer who attacks the defense force lead by Viineet with his army of zombies. Events happen after the army arrives there to build a road via a tunnel which is apparently inhabited by the Betaal.
Cribs: Footballers Stay Home is a special series adapted for the lockdown era, featuring the homes of famous football players. The series features a number of well-known footballers from the biggest leagues in the world, including Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and David Luiz, Manchester United midfielders Jesse Lingard and Andreas Pereira, Juventus footballer Paulo Dybala, Borussia Dortmund's Axel Witsel and FIFA 2017 female player of the year, Lieke Martens.
There’s no way that you will not be impressed by the kids featured in Netflix’s latest documentary Spelling the Dream. Here, we see how the Indian Americans have dominated the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition for decades now, and their hold on the title is just getting stronger every year. Director Sam Rega offers a short history lesson on Indian immigrants in America and then focuses on the families who devote the children’s formative years to competing in spelling bees. Read more