By the time I’m done, the page will be less than half the length of its peak several months ago. I’m undertaking a massive weeding effort on the Amazon page, pulling entries that are no longer available free with a Prime membership. I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with a handful of Indian titles that have been added in the last week. Hotstar has today’s other new Hindi feature release: the road trip musical Shaadisthan. Might be time for distributors to cash in and help bulk up Netflix’s catalog. The theatrical release calendar is awfully crowded, and several movies have been postponed more than once. Still, I won’t be surprised if Netflix starts throwing cash at distributors to acquire some of the titles that have been waiting for a theatrical release since last spring. But maybe the titles from the March 3 announcement are further along in production than I assume. It could be the former - a series starring Mike Myers just started filming, two years after it was announced - but recent COVID-19 shutdowns had to affect at least some of the shows (not to mention the five stand-up comedy specials that were announced).ĭespite a whole lineup of series and shows, could this month’s anemic offerings be the start of an Indian content drought at Netflix? The answer is… maybe? Most of 2021’s few theatrical releases - like Roohi and Madam Chief Minister - are already on Netflix or another streaming service. I’m not sure if this was always the plan or if this is a result of pandemic-related production delays. In all, that’s only 11 of 41 titles accounted for.Įven though fiction series made up the bulk of the titles announced, only two have gotten release dates. Two unscripted titles have been released as well: Searching for Sheela and The Big Day, Collection 2. Bombay Begums and Ray (coming out later this month) are the only series to be added. The announcement included 13 feature films, 15 new and returning series, and 13 unscripted movies, series, and comedy specials.įive of the films - Ajeeb Daastaans, The Disciple, Milestone, Pagglait, and Sardar Ka Grandson - have released so far, with Jagame Thandhiram and Haseen Dillruba set to join them in the coming weeks. This month’s paucity of new Indian releases got me wondering about the fate of the titles from Netflix’s big March 3 announcement of their slate of upcoming projects.
The skatepark that was constructed in Rajasthan for the filming of Skater Girl was left up and is free for public use.
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with today’s additions of the Tamil comedy Sarbath and the Hindi/English coming-of-age film Skater Girl.
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