OTT Releases Jan 24th to 30th
Him
Platform: Jio Hotstar
Cast: Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox
Genre: Horror
Jordan Peele backs this football horror thriller with Isaiah White, an eight-time championship quarterback whose magnetic charm slowly turns menacing. When rising star Cameron Cade suffers a career-threatening brain injury after a fan attack, Isaiah draws him into an intense training regimen at his remote desert compound where mentorship soon mutates into psychological terror.
Steal
Platform: Prime Video
Cast: Sophie Turner, Archie Madekwe, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd
Genre: Heist drama
This six-episode British heist thriller leads with Zara, an unassuming pension fund employee whose routine workday turns nightmarish when armed criminals storm Lochmill Capital. Trapped inside with colleague Luke, Zara is forced to carry out the gang’s orders as they attempt to seize £4 billion belonging to ordinary citizens’ retirement funds. As the siege unfolds, secrets surface, loyalties fracture and the robbery reveals a darker, more dangerous conspiracy lurking beneath the apparent crime.
Gustaakh Ishq
Platform: Jio Hotstar
Cast: Vijay Varma, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Naseeruddin Shah
Genre: Romance
Fashion designer Manish Malhotra steps into production with this soulful romance set in 1990s Delhi. Vijay Varma stars as Nawabuddin Saifuddin Rahman, a young man striving to revive his late father’s shuttered printing press in Old Delhi’s Daryaganj while caring for his mother and younger brother. A chance business trip to Punjab leads him to the daughter of an Urdu poet (Fatima Sana Shaikh), setting up a tender conflict between love and familial duty. Naseeruddin Shah also stars.
FILM RELEASES
Border 2
Release: January 23
Cast: Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh
Genre: War drama
Border 2 is an Indian war epic set against the 1971 Indo-Pak War, spotlighting lesser-known acts of courage across the Army, Air Force and Navy. The film traces coordinated inter-service operations and the sacrifices behind them, as India responds to Pakistan’s pre-emptive strikes under Operation Chengiz Khan. Promising scale, emotion and patriotic fervour, Border 2 serves as a spiritual successor to the 1997 classic Border.
Landlord
Release: January 23
Cast: Duniya Vijay, Raj B Shetty, Rachita Ram
Genre: Action drama
Set in the 1980s, the story plays out in a hard-edged rural world where land dictates power, identity and survival. A formidable local figure emerges at the heart of a simmering conflict, trapped between rival forces determined to control both the soil and its people. As loyalties fracture and long-suppressed tensions surface, the battle for the land becomes a reckoning — testing courage, legacy and the cost of standing one’s ground.
The History of Sound
Release: January 23
Cast: Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Molly Price
Genre: Drama, romance
In 1917, Lionel, a gifted young music student, meets David at the Boston Conservatory, where a shared passion for folk music forges an immediate bond. Years later, a letter from David draws Lionel into an impulsive journey through Maine’s backwoods to collect traditional songs. The reunion sparks an unexpected love affair, and the music they preserve quietly reshapes Lionel’s life in ways he cannot yet foresee.