The Union Budget backs skilling across animation, gaming and comics. But creators and studios confront a hard question: who owns what comes next?
Deepa Gahlot picks 10 Bollywood horror flicks to mark Friday the 13th.
The visuals in Mayasabha are overwhelming, the treatment is heavy-handed, and the performances overdone, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Sinners really aims high and comes close, but it's the kind of film you respect for its ambition, even if it leaves you feeling more impressed than moved, observes Mayur Sanap.
Sunny Deol. Akshaye Khanna. Anil Kapoor. Madhuri Dixit. Saif Ali Khan. Manoj Bajaypee. Netflix's 2026 slate packs a starry punch.
Here's a quick look at the Bollywood movies list of 2026. Lots of interesting titles and genres coming right up!
You can watch some of the Oscar nominated films on OTT.
Featuring Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Varun Dhawan, Emraan Hashmi...
The bed starts to creak. Anklets jingle in the stillness of the night. A creeping anxiety settles in as strange accidents and eerie incidents force you to question whether a supernatural presence is quietly observing your every move, observes Divya Nair.
Since there is no box office pressure on OTT, actors are willing to experiment with roles, as well as open to performing with greater sincerity.
'This area is gripped by superstition. Rumours about witchcraft lead to unfounded accusations and atrocities like this.'
There were quite a few female-led shows in 2025, and actresses got to play some interesting, non-cliched parts.
Men losing money, men turning money into superpower and lots more stranger things on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists them out.
While some of them were excellent, most were passable. But many were far superior to the theatrical releases.
The supernatural-mystery stuff is well balanced with Baramulla's more grounded, socially realistic elements, making it one of the most unique and creatively well-realised Hindi films Mayur Sanap has seen in a long time.
This Friday has a theatrical double bill of the supernatural genre, thanks to Kajol-starrer Maa and Sonakshi Sinha-starrer Nikita Roy. Mayur Sanap lists 10 supernatural thrillers you can stream at home.
Rashmika's double bill drama, Tom Cruise on a deadly mission and lots more thrills on OTT this week.
This is the second biggest OTT acquisition in Kannada after Yash's KGF Chapter 2.
'That child is determined to forge his own path. Like me, he won't follow the herd.'
November is a busy month on OTT with several series arriving, in their next season after being vastly successful in earlier instalments.
'I wish him 'Happy Teacher's Day' on Teacher's Day, inse kaafi kuchh seekhne ko milta hain.'
'What's amazing is that many of his fans are not Indians.' 'Even in countries where they don't speak or understand Hindi, Shah Rukh is hugely popular.'
Here's a hint: The stunner made her Bollywood debut in MS Dhoni: The Untold Story.
Kantara Chapter 1 is scheduled for a worldwide release on October 2, in Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Bengali and English.
It's 'not looking like a Diwali lineup, which is usually grand and has superstar movies.'
Maa, Mission, Salman Khan back to his Bigg Boss ways, Sukanya Verma lists your OTT picks this week.
It is sporadically chilling but the disparate elements take forever to come together, notes Deepa Gahlot.
'Story-telling is at the core of everything I do.'
There's an obvious attempt to startle with its gruesome imagery of severed heads skewered on chopped limbs and peeled-off faces but it's too tacky to elicit any real dread, observes Sukanya Verma.
July has so many interesting films to choose from!
June's OTT line-up looks entertaining. There's a lot coming up in theatres this month too.
Wondering where to catch some overlooked, understated gems. Here are some OTT recommendations for you.
Akshay Kumar's patriotism, Rana Naidu's fury, Snow White's fair and lovely attitude... emotions run high on OTT this week.
'Mera plan hain aap logon ko itna daraungi, itna daraungi ki matlab bas band bajne wali hain.'
What grabs your attention is the end credit which has a montage of BTS pictures of Sangeeth Sivan from the sets. He is smiling, chatting, laughing with his team
'What would Ravana do in today's time?'
Sonakshi will make her Telugu cinema debut in the supernatural thriller, Jatadhara.
Tamannaah Bhatia looked absolutely stunning at the trailer launch of her new supernatural thriller, Odela 2.
Satyajit Ray anticipated the issues we are only now starting to raise, long before large language models, AI chatbots, predictive algorithms, and autonomous systems began to control every bit of our lifestyles, notes Atanu Biswas.
What are you going to watch on OTT this week? Sukanya Verma lists your options.
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