Netflix announces a massive slate of 17 Indian films

Mumbai, July 16: Streaming platform giant Netflix India on Thursday unveiled the list of their upcoming releases, featuring a lineup of 17 original stories, including 12 new films and 5 new series which will be streaming on the platform this year. The movies include some of the highly anticipated ones for 2020.

  

 

The 17 includes movies such as Janhvi Kapoor starrer biopic Gunjan Saxena, director Mira Nair’s ‘A Suitable Boy’, Abhishek Bachchan’s comedy ‘Ludo’, Radhika Apte’s thriller ‘Raat Akeli Hai’ and Vikrant Massey’s romantic comedy ‘Ginny Weds Sunny’.

 

 

It also includes ‘Tribhanga: Tedhi Medhi Crazy’, ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare’, ‘Class of 83’, ‘Kaali Khuhi’, ‘Serious Men’ and award-winning animated romance film ‘Bombay Rose’, the first Indian animation film selected to open Venice Critics’ Week. The movies are set to release on Netflix in the upcoming months.

 

A Suitable Boy, based on the critically acclaimed novel by Vikram Seth, and starring Ishaan Khatter, Tabu, Tanya Maniktala, Rasika Dugal, Shahana Goswami, and Ram Kapoor, will be available on Netflix globally, except in the United States and Canada.

 

‘Raat Akeli Hai’, also starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Aditya Srivastava, and Tigmanshu Dhulia will release on July 31. On the other handJanhvi Kapoor’s ‘Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl’ will premiere on August 12. The true story of India's first woman air force pilot to go to war.

 

The list of Netflix original shows includes Rohit Saraf and Prajakta Koli romantic comedy series Mismatched, Anurag Kashyap and Anil Kapoor's AK vs AK, Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Serious Men, contemporary drama Bombay Begums, and Masaba and Neena Gupta's scripted series Masaba Masaba.

 

Netflix India said, “We are excited to share our lineup of stories across formats and multiple genres. We know our members have unique tastes, moods, and needs – sometimes, they want to lean back and watch a delightful comedy, and at other times, they want a pulse-pounding thriller that brings them to the edge of their seats. Together with the finest stories from around the world and our rapidly growing selection of licensed titles, we want to give our members something to discover and love on Netflix every day.”

 

These films were scheduled to have big theatrical releases but will now premiere on the OTT platform due to the coronavirus pandemic. Theaters have been shut ever since the lockdown was imposed in the country in early March and are likely to remain closed in the unforeseeable future.