October is packed with comedies, dramas, thrillers, and fantasy films, both on OTT platforms and in theatres.Here is a brief selection of entertainment-related items from various genres and platforms, taken from Khufiya, Thank You For Coming to Gadar 2.
1) Khufiya
In Khufiya, Krishna Mehra, a RAW agent, tells the tale of how he was tasked by India’s Research & Analysis Wing to find the mole who was divulging defence secrets to the enemy. She must balance her conflicting roles as a spy and a lover while looking for hints.
Release date: October 5
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Featuring: Tabu, Ali Fazal, Wamiqa Gabbi, Ashish Vidyarthi, Atul Kulkarni, Navnindra Behl, Shataf Figar. Azmeri Haque Badhon, Lalit Parimoo, Rahul Vohra
Stream on: Netflix
2) Thank You For Coming
Five friends traverse the dramatic repercussions of the falsehoods they tell one another in the film Thank You For Coming as they also learn the real significance of love, friendship, and erotic awakening.
Release date: October 6
Director: Karan Boolani
Featuring: Bhumi Pednekar, Shehnaaz Gill, Dolly Singh, Kusha Kapila, Shibani Bedi
Stream on: Theaters
3) Gadar 2
This is the follow-up to Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, which debuted in 2001. The main character of the movie is Tara Singh, who vanishes during a border conflict. The 1971 Crush India campaign serves as the setting for the movie.
Release date: October 6
Director: Anil Sharma
Featuring: Sunny Deol, Ameesha Patel, Utkarsh Sharma, Manish Wadhwa, Bhakti Rathod, Rakesh Bedi
Stream on: Zee5
4) Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue
The collapse of the West Bengali Raniganj Coalfields in 1989 served as the inspiration for the survival thriller. The movie chronicles the actions of IIT Dhanbad mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill, who in 1989 managed to rescue 65 trapped workers in the Raniganj Coalfields.
Release date: October 6
Director: Tinu Suresh Desai
Featuring: Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra, Kumud Mishra, Pavan Malhotra, Ravi Kishan, Varun Badola, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Rajesh Sharma
Stream on: Theaters
5) OMG 2
The Indian educational system serves as the film’s central focus.With OMG 2, director Amit Rai aims to spark a conversation on sex education’s inclusion in school curriculum, despite the fact that the majority of India still regards it as a taboo issue. The central theme of OMG 2 is how a schoolyard masturbation event affects Vivek (Aarush Varma)’s mental health and how this impacts how society perceives his whole family.
Release date: October 8
Director: Amit Rai
Featuring: Akshay Kumar, Yami Gautam, Pankaj Tripathi, Arun Govil, Govind Namdev, Aamir Naik, Fahim Fazli, Parth Siddhpura, Shriidhar Dubey, Rajiv Kachroo, Vedika Nawani
Stream on: Netflix
6) Dono
Two strangers go on a quest towards love. The film is Avnish S. Barjatya’s directorial debut and Rajshri Productions’ first attempt at a love tale after a protracted 33-year break following Maine Pyar Kiya (1989).
Release date: October 5
Director: Avnish Barjatya
Featuring: Rajveer Deol, Paloma Dhillon
Arriving on: Theaters
7) Mumbai Diaries Season 2
The drama series, which is set in an emergency department, follows the hospital’s medical team as they handle dangerous scenarios as other first responders in Mumbai cope with emergencies of tremendous proportions.
Release date: October 6
Director: Nikkhil Advani
Featuring: Mohit Raina, Konkana Sen Sharma, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Natasha Bhardwaj, Satyajeet Dubey, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Tina Desai, Prakash Belawadi, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Ridhi Dogra, Balaji Gauri, Sonali Kulkarni
Stream on: Amazon Prime Video