I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with the streaming debut of the Hindi film I Want To Talk, starring Abhishek Bachchan. This drama got a small run out in US theaters last year, so this is likely the first opportunity many people will have to watch it. According to Suchin Mehrotra, it’s worth prioritizing. Yesterday, Prime premiered Season 2 of Paatal Lok.

I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with the celebrity docu-series The Roshans. Each of the four episodes focuses on a different member of the famous Bollywood family. A couple of days ago, Netflix added the 2024 Malayalam comedy Rifle Club.

Starting next week, we head into an exciting period where a few indie movies — including some that played at film festivals — are poised to finally get a global release. On January 24 (more likely the afternoon of the 23rd in the US), ZEE5 debuts Madhavan’s Hisaab Barabar and Hulu launches the youthful romance Sweet Dreams. Then on January 28 (again, probably the 27th in the US), Hulu debuts The Storyteller, which was nominated for multiple festival awards in 2022 and 2023. There’s always a chance that these films are India exclusives and won’t release in the US, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

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