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Is the Indian OTT industry maturing? For the first time in five years, since we began tracking Indian original content from streaming services, there were fewer originals in 2022 than what we had last year. That might be in part to the fact that cinemas were open for business across most of 2022. While OTT platforms enjoyed the benefit of a restrictive film market during the COVID-19 lockdown years, that advantage evaporated this year. Movies that were sold to the likes of Netflix, Zee5, Disney+ Hotstar, and Amazon Prime…

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 57 titles that will be released on its platform in September 2022. Among new entries, the Diego Luna-led Star Wars series Andor leads the show, taking us back to the galaxy far, far away before the events of Rogue One, which itself was set before the events of Episode IV – A New Hope. Andor premieres September 21 on Disney+ Hotstar with the first three episodes. Unlike recent Star Wars series, Andor will only be available in English and Hindi. I'm guessing Hotstar's experiments with…

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 44 titles that will be released on its platform in August 2022. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law leads the way as the new Marvel series, with Bruce Banner/ Smart Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) now serving as life-coach to his cousin Jennifer Walters/ She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany). Tim Roth's Abomination and Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock/ Daredevil are back, after cameos in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: No Way Home, respectively. She-Hulk begins August 17 on Disney+ Hotstar. The…

Good Luck Jerry — led by Janhvi Kapoor and out Friday on Disney+ Hotstar — marks filmmaker Siddharth Sen's foray into movies, following his stint in the ad production industry. As a debut feature, Sen has chosen to remake the 2018 Tamil film Kolamaavu Kokila, which recounts the tale of an innocent girl pulled into the criminal world of drug smuggling. Thematically, both films identify as black comedies, so the main difference here would be the setting and technical aspects — and the cast, obviously.The Hindi-language…

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 34 titles that will be released on its platform in July 2022. In big names, we have Karan Johar returning with the seventh season of his long-running talk show Koffee with Karan, now dubbed as “Hotstar Specials”. Koffee with Karan season 7 starts July 7 on Disney+ Hotstar. Meanwhile, Janhvi Kapoor leads Good Luck Jerry, a remake of a Tamil film about a woman who becomes a drug peddler to gather money for her mother's cancer treatment. Good Luck Jerry is out July 29. Elsewhere, the…

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 33 titles that will be released on its platform in April 2022. We've already known about some of them, including the Shreyas Talpade-led Hindi-language sports biopic Kaun Pravin Tambe? that released April 1. On April 8, Disney+ Hotstar will unveil a new Tamil-language police training camp drama in Taanakkaran, with Vikram Prabhu, Lal, and Anjali Nair leading the cast. There will also be a Tami-language series in April, with coming-of-age Kanaa Kaanum Kaalangal returning to school…