Hindi OTT releases this week:
Blind Game (ZEE5, Nov 11)
Five friends, one trip and a bag of missing cash. Arjun Rampal plays a crime branch officer who is sent to Manali to solve a mind-bending case. The film is a posthumous release from the late director Sangeeth Sivan, who passed away in 2024. It also stars Priyamani in the role of a police officer who aids Arjun in the case.
Student Of The Year: After Dark (Hotstar, Nov 13)
Karan Johar’s romantic-drama film series Student Of The Year gets a dark turn under Reema Maya’s direction. Starring Shanaya Kapoor in the lead and in a double-role, the show centres around the death of Aayesha Malik (Shanaya), a student of the elite St. Teresa’s Heritage School. After her body is found frozen in an ice lake, her twin sister (also played by Shanaya) takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of her death. The series is backed by Dharmatic Entertainment led by Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla and Apoorva Mehta.
Daayra (Netflix, Nov 13)
After its theatrical run, Meghna Gulzar’s police procedural starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran will now be landing on OTT. The film centres around a rape case and a subsequent encounter of the culprits. Kareena and Prithviraj represents the two sides of the justice system, one which still has faith in procedure, while the other believes in swift, vigilante vengeance.
Parivarik ManuRanjan (Sony LIV, Nov 13)
Pankaj Tripathi and Aditi Rao Hydari share screen space for the first time with Parivarik ManuRanjan, a romantic-comedy directed by Varun V Sharma with a story and screenplay by Brijendra Kala, Ali Abbas Zafar and Varun and dialogues by Brijendra. The film centres around Ranjan Dubey (Pankaj), a middle-aged bachelor who employs Helen (Aditi), a property and home manager. As Helen and her beauty becomes the talk of the mohalla, it is soon revealed that the pious home manager is being asked about by cops.