Monsoon season is in full effect across the country, so what better time to sit at home and watch some new OTT titles? The heartwarming family dramedy
Trying on Apple TV stars Rafe Spall and Esther Smith as a couple with adopted children who face the unthinkable when their biological mother Kat (Charlotte Riley) returns. Season 5 premieres on July 8. Netflix reboots the American classic Little House on the Prairie on July 9. Based on the children's books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the new series stars Alice Halsey, Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald. Finally, the French WWI action drama The Sentinels premieres on 10 July on Lionsgate Play. Starring Thibaut Evrard, Olivia Ross, and Louis Peres, a soldier is recruited into a secret research program that creates a new kind of soldier with a powerful serum. Which OTT show or film will you be tuning into this week?
The Five Star Weekend
Where to watch: JioHotstar
Release date: July 9
About the series: The Peacock limited series features The Last Thing He Told Me's Jennifer Garner as a food blogger who brings her friends together for a five-star weekend on Nantucket to deal with her grief. The eight-part series, which is adapted from the 2023 novel by Elin Hilderbrand, also features Chloë Sevigny, Regina Hall, D’Arcy Carden and Gemma Chan.
Peddi
Where to watch: Netflix
Release date: July 9
About the film: Ram Charan essays the title role in this Buchi Babu Sana that finally hits OTT this week. The RRR star plays a talented cricketer who turns to wrestling after he falls for the village leader's daughter Achiyamma (Janhvi Kapoor). The Telugu film also revolves around the introduction of a railway station that could change the small village.
READ REVIEW: Peddi
Ikka
Where to watch: Netflix
Release date: July 10
About the film: Directed by Siddharth P. Malhotra, the legal drama pairs Sunny Deol and Akshaye Khanna for the first time. Deol plays lawyer Arjun Mehra, who defends Shauryamann Gaur (Akshaye Khanna) in a high-profile attempted murder case that goes against everything he stands for. Tillotama Shome plays a determined public prosecutor and Dia Mirza plays Arjun's wife, Avantika, in the Hindi film.
Balti
Where to watch: SonyLIV
Release date: July 10
About the film: Written and directed by Unni Sivalingam, the Malayalam action film is set in the border town of Velampalayam between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Shane Nigam leads this drama, which is having its digital premiere this week, along with actors Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Preethi Asrani, Alphonse Puthren, K. Selvaraghavan, and Poornima Indrajith. Four promising young Kabaddi players get pulled into conflict with a notorious loan shark named Bhairavan.
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