New OTT Releases This Weekend – Friday, August 9, 2024: A Treat for Entertainment Enthusiasts
This week brings a fresh batch of new releases on streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. The lineup includes exciting titles like Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba, featuring Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey, and Sunny Kaushal. There’s also the rom-com Ghudchadi with Sanjay Dutt and Raveena Tandon. For action lovers, Amazon Prime Video offers One Fast Move. Popular shows like The Umbrella Academy, Shahmaran, and The Mallorca Files return with new seasons. Scroll down to see all the movies and shows arriving this week.
1. Indian 2
Platform: Netflix
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: Senapathy, once a freedom fighter, has now turned into a vigilante. His mission is to fight against corruption. He returns to the country to help a young man. This young man has been courageously exposing corrupt politicians through online videos.
2. Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba
Platform: Netflix
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: While evading police in Agra, Rani and Rishu come out with a plan whereby both can escape. As things get unexpected for them, with no way out, Rani seeks the help of an unsuspected quiet admirer.
3. Life Hill Gayi
Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: Siblings are thrown into a fierce competition to renovate an old hilltop hotel as part of an inheritance challenge. As they battle it out, the rivalry intensifies. The story centers on the suspense and speculations about who will emerge victorious.
4. Gyaarah Gyaarah
Platform: ZEE5
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: As the inquest into the girl’s murder draws near, Yug races against time to solve the case. He teams up with his senior officer, Vamika Rawat, in a final effort. By chance, Yug finds a walkie-talkie and, at exactly 11:11 pm, receives a message from another officer, Shaurya Antwal. Together, they finally discover who the killer is.
5. Ghudchadi
Platform: Jiocinema
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: For Kalyani Devi, everything centres around getting her grandson married. Even when she is about to die, she wishes only to see him married—like every other grandparent who wants to dance at a grandchild’s wedding. But here, she’s failing in the one job she has—getting him married. And why? Because Kalyani has strong caste prejudices: she believes that a Baniya girl should not come anywhere near her Pandit grandson, even proclaiming it publicly.
6. The Instigators
Platform: Apple TV+
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: In a twist of fate, Rory and Cobby, two unlikely companions, find themselves bound together in a high-stakes heist. When their plan falls apart, they must join forces to evade the law, navigate through sluggish bureaucracy, and stay one step ahead of a ruthless crime boss out for revenge.
7. Lisa Frankenstein
Platform: JioCinema
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: It’s a mismatched buddy movie about a misfit teenage boy who befriends a reanimated corpse from the Victorian era, and together they go on a dark, twisted search for love, happiness, and a few elusive body parts. Murder ensues as they try to make their way through a world that misunderstands them.
8. One Fast Move
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: A struggling young man seeks out his estranged father for support as he pursues his dream of becoming a professional motorcycle racer. With the guidance of a motorcycle store owner, he starts to break down the emotional walls built by years of his father’s absence.
9. Mission: Cross
Platform: Netflix
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: A former elite special forces operative, this agent turned his back on dangerous missions and chose a quiet life as a dedicated househusband. He now channels all his energy into keeping his wife, Kang Mi-Sun, whom he tucks in with care and who doesn’t know about the former secret life.
10. Turbo
Platform: SonyLiv
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: Jeep driver Jose gets in trouble and is forced to relocate to Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, where he becomes entangled with Indhu and his best friend. A series of surprises await them all.
11. Romance in the House
Platform: Netflix
Releasing: 10 August 2024
Description: Here he is, showing up over a decade later, now a billionaire due to bankruptcy and divorce, back in the lives of his ex-wife and daughter, reuniting with them but in the person of a changed man, millionaire-style.
12. Django
Platform: LIONSGATE PLAY
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: Based in the city of New Babylon, an outcast haven founded by John Ellis, this family drama focuses on notorious criminal Django seeking to reunite with his estranged daughter. The series serves as a remake of Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Italian film of the same name.
13. It Ends with Us
Platform: Theaters
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: “It Ends with Us” is a romantic drama centered on Lily Bloom, a florist whose world is thrown into turmoil when her first love reappears, causing her to reevaluate her troubled relationship. Directed by Justin Baldoni, the film features performances by Blake Lively, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, and Hasan Minhaj. The movie is an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel of the same name.
14. Pradhan
Platform: Hoichoi
Releasing: 10 August 2024
Description: The Bengali film centers around a young police officer who is reassigned to Dharmapur, where he encounters a web of social and political challenges. The story unfolds as he strives to navigate and overcome these obstacles. Directed by Avijit Sen, the movie stars Dev, Paran Bandopadhyay, Anirban Chakrabarti, and Mamata Shankar in prominent roles.
15. The Influencer
Platform: Netflix
Releasing: 7 August 2024
Description: Netflix’s new reality drama, The Influencer, showcases well-known Korean influencers from Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. They compete in a game show to see who is the most popular. The winner walks away with the ultimate prize money.
16. The Zone: Survival Mission Season 3
Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
Releasing: 8 August 2024
Description: Yoo Jae Suk, Kwon Yu Ri, and the newest team member, Kim Dong Hyun, face a thrilling challenge. They must survive four hours in a virtual world filled with futuristic disasters, including a zombie apocalypse. This is another exciting title among this week’s latest OTT releases.
17. Lolo and the Kid
Platform: Netflix
Description: In this upcoming movie, a young boy partners with a hustler to scam the wealthy. But when a life-changing opportunity arises, they face tough choices that could tear them apart.
18. Borderlands
Platform: Theatres
Releasing: 10 August 2024
Description: Borderlands is a movie based on the popular video game series created by Gearbox Software. The story follows a famous bounty hunter who teams up with a group of misfits. Together, they fight alien monsters and search for the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe.
19. The Color Purple
Platform: JioCinema
Releasing: 9 August 2024
Description: The Color Purple is a movie adaptation of a stage musical with the same name. It features Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, and Corey Hawkins, among others. The film tells the story of Celie, a woman who is separated from her sister and children. Despite many hardships, she finds strength through new and unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
20. Are You Sure?!
Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
Description: Join BTS members Jimin and Jungkook on an exciting journey as they explore three countries. They travel to New York in the USA, Jeju Island in South Korea, and Sapporo in Japan. Get ready for an adventure with them!
21. Shahmaran Season 2
Platform: Netflix
Description: In the second season of the Turkish drama *Shahmaran*, Şahsu and Maran return to face a new challenge. A powerful darkness is awakening, and they must confront it.
22. The Mallorca Files Season 3
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Description: This week, new episodes of The Mallorca Files are coming out. The Spanish crime comedy series features detective Miranda Blake, played by Elen Rhys, and her partner Max Winter, played by Julian Looman. They keep solving complex crime cases on the island of Majorca.
23. The Umbrella Academy Season 4
Platform: Netflix
Description: Netflix is releasing new episodes of *The Umbrella Academy*. The story continues with the Hargreeves siblings, who have chosen to go their separate ways after their battle at Hotel Oblivion. But when a mysterious group called The Keepers causes chaos in the world they once saved, the Umbrella Academy must come together one last time to protect the universe.
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