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Streaming Video News: October 4, 2024

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I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with today’s premiere of Vikramaditya Motwane’s thriller CTRL, starring Ananya Panday. Earlier this week, the streamer added the Tamil hit GOAT – The Greatest of All Time.

Speaking of Indian box office hits, I wrote about the biggest theatrical blockbusters streaming on Netflix for What’s on Netflix.

Yesterday, ZEE5 premiered the Anupam Kher drama The Signature.

I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon prime with the new Hindi series about social media influencers called The Tribe.

Next week could be a busy week on the streaming services. Akshay Kumar’s film Sarfira is coming to Hulu on October 11 (probably the 10th in the United States), along with the Tamil movie Vaazhai. Other theatrical releases likely making their streaming debuts on October 10 include Khel Khel Mein on Netflix, Stree 2 on Amazon Prime, and Vedaa on ZEE5, though none of those have been officially announced yet. We’ll have to see what happens next week.

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In Theaters: October 4, 2019

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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):

Streaming Video News: September 19, 2013

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The 2008 thriller Kidnap is now available for streaming on Netflix. While by no means a great movie, Kidnap stars Sanjay Dutt in perhaps my favorite role I’ve ever seen him play. Dutt plays the father of a kidnapped young woman — a la Liam Neeson in Taken — a role befitting a man of his age (Dutt was 49 when the film released). He still gets to kick plenty of butts but without having to simultaneously romance a woman in her early twenties. I wish there were more cool dad roles for Bollywood actors. One can’t play a college student forever (right?).

Mark your calendars for Friday, October 4, when Lootera makes its streaming debut on Eros Now. Lootera is currently my favorite movie of 2013, so I’d say it’s worth the $1.99 rental.