Latest OTT Releases in India (May 2026)Reviews
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Review: The Crown season 4: Headier than ever
Season four of The Crown starts off with a couple of advantages. By now, the series has garnered a formidable fan base, so wide reception is no longer a challenge. More importantly, the story enters what must be the most appealing phase in modern English history.
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Review: Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari: Wobbles between satire and slapstick
Abhishek Sharma is back with a satire, and he loves being deliberately scatterbrained about it -- we know from his two Tere Bin Laden films. Being goofy and caustic at the same time can be tricky business.
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Review: Chhalaang: Simple story with simple message
he story is set in heartland Haryana, and that gives him a passable scope to talk patriarchy without getting too heavy about it.
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Review: Ludo: Peculiar play of emotions
Ludo is brilliant as a concept, engaging in execution, but mostly mediocre in output. It is a film that ensembles four intertwined stories of love and relationships, and the idea is to spread out a narrative with a twist of irreverence and wry humour.
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Review: ‘Laxmii’ bombs
The last time he did it was in Diwali last year, with Housefull 4. He is back this Diwali with a film that would make Housefull 4 seem like a classic.
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Review: Gatham: Deceptively told psycho saga
Gatham starts off looking like a basic psycho thriller. A young couple is stranded in the middle of snowed-out nowhere when their car breaks down on a highway. A stranger stops, says he lives nearby and offers them shelter for the night.
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Review: Rogue City: Old-school toast to carnage and chaos
Rogue City underlines its intention at the very outset, with its title. There are the rogues and there are the cops of the city, and the ensuing showdown creates scope for a convenient quota of action and drama to set up a near-two hour crime thriller.
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Review: Taish: Familiar vibes of vengeance
The story unfolds against the backdrop of good-looking London and nearby locales, using a cast that fits the characters well. For some novelty, you get a choice in formats -- you could watch Taish as a six-episode series, or as a feature film.
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Review: Mirzapur 2: Back to the boondocks
Season two had been promoted all along as a revenge story and, going by where the first season ended, it was obvious that gunning for vengeance would be Guddu (Ali Fazal) and Golu's (Shweta Tripathi) sole motive, after they lost their loved ones to the brutality of Munna Tripathi (Divyendu Sharma).
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Review: Footfairy: Slowburn psycho thriller
Footfairy is simply the most engaging noir attempt by Bollywood in a while. The triumph lies in treatment. The film manages to be sinister and shocking, and conveys a grizzly plot without being too blatant about it.
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Review: A Suitable Boy: Overwhelmed by the odds
Nair's new web series talks of an India that was. The show diligently tries to belong to the former lot, but tends to gravitate to the second category.
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Review: Comedy Couple: Fun while it runs
Comedy Couple works for its freshness in storytelling more than the story it tells. The film is likeable for characters that draw instant attention and quirky situational humour.
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Review: Putham Pudhu Kaalai: Many moods of lockdown
Five well-known filmmakers down South have collaborated to direct a story each in this episodic film. These films do not have any link with each other except the fact that all five are set against the backdrop of lockdown.
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Review: Halal Love Story: Feel-good film with twist of satire
Halal Love Story crafts humour out of the sensitive issue of Islamic belief without being trivial about it. If that balancing act seems accomplishment enough, director Zakariya Mohammed and his co-writer Muhsin Parari reveal plenty of other cinematic qualities along the way.
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Review: Scam 1992: Retells a complex saga
There is a basic challenge that Hansal Mehta throws, while narrating the story of Big Bull Harshad Mehta. Instead of letting his story unfold through the mind games of his protagonist, which would have made the series lucid and enjoyable for all, he often tends to immerse the narrative in a mire of heavy stock market lingo and logistics.
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Review: Ginny Weds Sunny: Band Baaja Blunder
Ginny, Sunny and their not so funny misadventure of love sets you wondering within 10 minutes of the start: Why was this film made in the first case? The question plays in your mind on the loop all through the runtime that follows. By the end of it, you realise this was a couple of hours ill-spent.
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Review: 'High' is a trip on the wild side
Fancy a miracle drug that perks up the mind. A little unimaginatively, perhaps, the drug is called Magic, though the name is meant to underline its sheer energising power. A band of do-gooder scientists want to introduce the pill and heal the world, but therein lies the rub.
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Review: The Good Lord Bird: American history as a Western thriller
Ethan Hawke goes all guns blazing as hero and co-creator, in this drama series based on the true story of an abolitionist who set out to liberate 19th century America from slavery, in the process triggering off Civil War in that country.
