Netflix will be premiering 17 titles over the next few months, including Anurag Basu’s comedy Ludo , Gitanjali Rao’s animated film Bombay R...
Netflix will be premiering 17 titles over the next few months, including Anurag Basu’s comedy Ludo, Gitanjali Rao’s animated film Bombay Rose, Atul Sabharwal’s police drama Class of ’83, and the Sanjay Dutt-starrer Torbaaz. Also arriving on the streaming platform will be the web series A Suitable Boy, directed by Mira Nair and based on the Vikram Seth novel of the same name, and Mismatched, adapted from Sandhya Menon’s novel When Dimple met Rishi.
This “very fun and exciting line-up” is “very diverse in terms of genres and formats”, Monika Shergill, Vice-President Content, Netflix India, said in an interview. “From a Netflix perspective, it’s a watchfest that we want to create over the next few weeks and months.” The premiere dates haven’t been announced yet.
The lockdown forced by the novel coronavirus pandemic has led to an increase in programming across streaming platforms, which include Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Zee5 and SonyLIV.
Amazon Prime Video has acquired films across languages, including the June releases Gulabo Sitabo and the upcoming Shakuntala Devi, Law and French Biryani. Disney+Hostar will release seven movies between July and October, including Sushant Singh Rajput’s final production Dil Bechara, the Akshay Kumar-starrer Laxmmi Bomb, Ajay Devgn’s Bhuj: The Pride of India and the Sadak sequel.
Netflix will premiere 12 movies, many of which would have been released in cinemas if they had not been shuttered because of the pandemic. These...
