War dominates the Bollywood theater scene in Chicago the weekend beginning Friday, October 4, 2019. It shows in the following local theaters: the AMC River East 21 in Chicago, MovieMax Cinemas in Niles, AMC Niles 12 in Niles, Regal Round Lake Beach in Round Lake Beach, AMC South Barrington 24 in South Barrington, AMC Dine-In Yorktown 18 in Lombard, Regal Cantera in Warrenville, AMC Naperville 16 in Naperville, AMC Woodridge 18 in Woodridge, and AMC Crestwood 18 in Crestwood. War‘s streaming video partner is Hotstar.
The weekend’s other behemoth is the multilingual release Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy, showing locally in three different languages:
Telugu: River East 21, MovieMax, South Barrington 24, Cantera, Naperville 16, Century 12 Evanston in Evanston, Century 16 Deer Park in Deer Park, Marcus Addison Cinema in Addison, Century Stratford Square in Bloomingdale, Cinemark Tinseltown USA in North Aurora, and Cinemark at Seven Bridges in Woodridge
Hindi: River East 21, MovieMax, South Barrington 24, Cantera, Naperville 16, and Seven Bridges
Tamil: MovieMax and Seven Bridges
The South Barrington 24 and Cantera hold over Chhichhore and Dream Girl, which also gets a fourth week at MovieMax.
Other Indian movies playing in the Chicago area this weekend (all films have English subtitles):
- Asuran (Tamil) at MovieMax, South Barrington 24, Marcus Addison, and Seven Bridges
- Chanakya (Telugu) at MovieMax, Marcus Addison, and Seven Bridges
- Finals (Malayalam), 100% Kadhal (Tamil), Namma Veetu Pillai (Tamil), Ganagandharvan (Malayalam), Valmiki (Telugu), Porinju Mariam Jose (Malayalam), and Oththa Seruppu Size 7 (Tamil) at MovieMax