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Streaming Video News: October 15, 2017

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I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with eighteen new additions to the streaming catalog. Among the newly added titles are several small-budget films with intriguing actresses, including Richa Chadha in Tamanchey, Konkona Sen Sharma in Gour Hai Dastaan: The Freedom File, Tannishtha Chatterjee in Jal, Ira Dubey in Aisa Yeh Jahaan, and Swara Bhaskar in the horror flick Machhli Jal Ki Rani Hai. There’s also the dumb Sanjay Dutt crime drama Zila Ghaziabad, as well as the documentary Why Knot. Here are all the other Indian films just added to Netflix (courtesy of Instant Watcher):

 

New Trailers: March 4, 2014

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The trailers for three very different films all opening in April, 2014, are now out. First up is Jal, an interesting-looking festival film about a water diviner trying to solve a drought. It opens in India on April 4, but that doesn’t guarantee it’ll open in the U.S. on the same day.

The family friendly supernatural comedy sequel Bhoothnath Returns releases the following weekend, on April 11. I wasn’t crazy about the original Bhoothnath, but a new crew behind the camera and Boman Irani in front of the camera give me hope.

April 18 is the release date for 2 States, a romantic drama starring Alia Bhatt and Arjun Kapoor. With the movie’s central conflict driven by the cultural differences between the two lead character’s families — a Tamil Brahmin family from Chennai and a Punjabi family from Delhi — I’m not sure how well the story will translate outside of India to an audience without the preexisting knowledge of what those differences are. We’ll have to wait and see.