The final stretch of September is bringing an unusually crowded streaming calendar, with courtroom battles, psychological mysteries, gangster sagas, coming-of-age romances and true-crime dramas competing
for attention. Aneet Padda takes centre stage in Hunkkaar: The Roar as a 17-year-old whose accusation against a powerful godman pits her against an ecosystem of faith and fear. Parineeti Chopra, meanwhile, makes her OTT series debut with Shaque: Trust No One, playing a mother whose daughter disappeared nine years ago and whose sudden reappearance in mysterious photographs turns everyone around her into a possible suspect.
Yash leads Geetu Mohandas’ Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups, a gangster drama unfolding in post-independence Goa, while Alia Bhatt and Shaheen Bhatt back a fresh young ensemble in Don’t Be Shy. Elsewhere, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson turn a long-running real-life rumour into the premise of Brothers, Unabomber revisits the formative years and eventual manhunt for Ted Kaczynski, and My Sad Dead brings Pablo Larraín into Mariana Enríquez’s unsettling supernatural universe. Here is the complete OTT lineup arriving between September 22 and September 26.
Hunkkaar: The Roar – JioHotstar, September 25
Following her breakout turn in Saiyaara, Aneet Padda takes on a markedly darker role in this socio-courtroom thriller produced by Priyanka Chopra’s Purple Pebble Pictures along with Applause Entertainment and Birla Studios.
Padda plays Meenu Rawat, a 17-year-old whose accusation against Sunil Chakosi sends shockwaves through a community where his word has long been treated as unquestionable. Chakosi is no ordinary accused. Revered by his followers as “Baapji”, he is a cult leader surrounded by an elaborate structure of faith, loyalty and fear.
What begins with one teenager speaking out consequently grows into a much larger investigation of the machinery surrounding a powerful spiritual figure. Meenu finds herself fighting not simply an individual but an entire system conditioned to protect him.
Fatima Sana Shaikh plays the stern police officer drawn into the case, while Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Arjun Mathur, Raghubir Yadav and Ram Kapoor feature in pivotal roles. The courtroom becomes only one battleground in a story where testimony, devotion and institutional power repeatedly collide.
Shaque: Trust No One – Netflix, September 24
Parineeti Chopra makes her streaming-series debut with a mystery built around every parent’s nightmare and one agonising question: what happens when hope itself becomes suspicious?
Nine years ago, her character’s newborn daughter disappeared from a hospital room. The intervening years have done little to dull her determination to find the child, but they have steadily eroded her ability to trust the people around her.
Then photographs begin arriving. The girl in them appears to be the daughter she has spent nearly a decade searching for.
The discovery reopens the investigation and forces the mother to reconsider everything she thought she knew about the original abduction. Friends, relatives and familiar faces fall under suspicion as the possibility emerges that somebody close to her may have known more than they admitted all along. Jennifer Winget, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Soni Razdan, Sumeet Vyas, Anup Soni and Harleen Sethi join Chopra in the ensemble.
Toxic: A Fairytale For Grown-Ups – ZEE5, September 25
Geetu Mohandas heads into the shadowy underworld of post-independence Goa with Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups, an expansive gangster drama headlined by Yash.
At the centre of the story is Raya, whose ascent through the criminal world is fuelled by violence, betrayal and an appetite for power. The higher he climbs, however, the greater the personal cost of maintaining the empire he has built. His relationship with his son Rumi becomes particularly important as questions of inheritance, ambition and consequence begin converging.
Yash appears in the dual roles of Raya and Rumi, anchoring a large ensemble that includes Nayanthara, Kiara Advani, Huma Qureshi, Tara Sutaria and Rukmini Vasanth.
Rather than treating the gangster’s rise as an uncomplicated tale of power, the film places equal emphasis on what such an empire does to the people caught inside it, especially when one generation’s choices become another generation’s burden.
Brothers – Apple TV, September 23
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson take one of the internet’s favourite celebrity rumours and turn it into the engine of a family comedy.
The real-life friends play fictionalised versions of themselves. When the engagement of Woody’s daughter falls apart, he responds by piling his family into a van and heading to Matthew’s Texas ranch for an extended stay. What begins as an attempt to recover from one family crisis soon creates another.
Matthew’s mother, Ma Mac, played by Holland Taylor, accidentally reveals a decades-old secret suggesting Matthew and Woody may actually share the same father.
The revelation forces the friends to reconsider a relationship they have taken for granted for years, just as Matthew is contemplating a possible run for Governor of Texas. Natalie Martinez plays Valentina McConaughey and Brittany Ishibashi appears as Joy Harrelson, with Nolan Almeida, Ella Grace Helton, Noah Carganilla, Highdee Kuan and Oona Yaffe rounding out the ensemble.
Habeas Corpus – Netflix, September 23
Netflix Brazil enters legal-drama territory with a series inspired by the work of Innocence Project Brasil, an organisation dedicated to investigating wrongful convictions.
Marjorie Estiano plays Inez, a respected law professor and former criminal defence attorney who oversees a group of students examining questionable convictions. Their latest case concerns a young man who insists he has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit.
Among Inez’s students is Marina, played by Any Gabrielly, whose interest in the investigation is far from purely academic. An injustice buried in her own family’s history has a direct connection to the case.
As fresh evidence emerges, teacher and student begin approaching the pursuit of justice from increasingly different directions. What starts as a review of one conviction develops into a conflict over whether correcting an institutional wrong and settling a personal score can ever truly be the same thing.
My Sad Dead – Netflix, September 24
Pablo Larraín draws from the macabre literary world of Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez for this four-part supernatural limited series.
Mercedes Morán plays Ema, a recently retired doctor with the unsettling ability to see and communicate with dead people. She has learned to coexist with that gift while grieving the death of her mother, until the arrival of her niece Julie disturbs the fragile arrangement.
Played by Dolores Fonzi, Julie possesses a far more volatile connection with the dead than Ema has ever encountered. At the same time, three teenagers are murdered in their suburban Piedrabuena neighbourhood.
The killings appear to rupture whatever boundary had kept the living and the dead apart. As the disturbance spreads beyond the two women, their private relationship with the supernatural begins threatening an entire community.
Don’t Be Shy – Prime Video, September 25
Alia Bhatt and Shaheen Bhatt’s Eternal Sunshine Productions introduces four young actors in this coming-of-age romantic comedy about the wonderfully inconvenient habit of life refusing to follow a carefully prepared plan.
Aarushi Bajaj plays Shyamili “Shy” Das, a fiercely independent young woman who likes having control over her choices. Romance makes that increasingly difficult when she finds herself caught between Mayank, played by Piyush Khati, and Dhruv, played by Ansh Duggal, an estranged childhood friend whose return brings unfinished history with him.
Then there is Tara. Played by Bianca Arora, her arrival rearranges the emotional equation yet again.
The film follows its young characters through friendship, attraction, jealousy and the awkward transition into adulthood. Kunaal Roy Kapur, Anurag Basu, Neha Dhupia and Anju Alva Naik appear in supporting roles.
Unabomber – Netflix, September 25
Director Janus Metz constructs this crime drama across two timelines, beginning decades before the Unabomber investigation became one of the FBI’s most exhaustive manhunts.
Jacob Tremblay plays Ted Kaczynski at 16, when the mathematics prodigy enters Harvard in 1959. There, he becomes a subject in controversial psychological experiments conducted by Professor Henry Murray, played by Russell Crowe. The research repeatedly subjects the young Kaczynski to intense humiliation and psychological pressure.
Decades later, FBI agent Joanne Miller, played by Shailene Woodley, is attempting to identify the person responsible for a bombing campaign that began in 1978.
The two timelines gradually move towards each other as the drama examines Kaczynski’s early experiences alongside the enormous investigation into his later crimes. Annabelle Wallis plays Christiana Morgan, with Alexander Ludwig, Steven Ogg and Marc Menchaca in supporting roles.
The Final Problem – Netflix, September 25
A storm, an isolated hotel, thirteen stranded guests and a dead body form the ingredients of this four-part period mystery adapted from Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s bestselling novel.
The story unfolds in the spring of 1959 on a small island off Mallorca. A violent storm cuts the hotel off from the outside world, leaving its guests with nowhere to go. Then Elisa Mander, a quiet English tourist, is discovered dead.
Her death initially appears to be suicide, but Basil, a retired actor once famous for portraying Sherlock Holmes, is not convinced. José Coronado plays the reluctant amateur detective, whose years pretending to solve murders suddenly become unexpectedly useful.
He joins forces with aspiring thriller writer Foxá, played by Martiño Rivas, as suspicion begins moving through the hotel. María Valverde appears as the mysterious Adela Figueroa, while Maribel Verdú plays the composed hotel manager Mrs Ausländer.
The Love Hypothesis – Prime Video, September 23
Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling romantic comedy moves to the screen with Lili Reinhart as Olive, a PhD candidate whose impulsive attempt to help her best friend creates a rather substantial problem.
To convince Anh, played by Rachel Marsh, that she is completely over her former crush Jeremy, Olive kisses the first available man she encounters. Unfortunately, that man happens to be Adam Carlsen, played by Tom Bateman, one of the department’s most intimidating professors.
Rather than immediately ending in disaster, the encounter develops into an arrangement that benefits them both. They agree to pretend they are dating, complete with boundaries and rules designed to keep the relationship manageable.
The obvious complication arrives when their carefully controlled fake romance begins producing feelings neither included in the original agreement.
A Different World – Netflix, September 24
Nearly four decades after the original A Different World premiered, Hillman College opens its doors to another generation.
Maleah Joi Moon plays Deborah Wayne, the youngest daughter of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert, the beloved characters played by Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy. Arriving at Hillman as a freshman, Deborah hopes college will give her an identity beyond being the child of two celebrated alumni.
Instead, she quickly discovers how difficult escaping that legacy will be on a campus where her parents remain legendary figures.
The revival surrounds Deborah with a new group of students, including a first-generation criminal justice major, a five-star athlete, a psychology student capable of solving everyone else’s problems except his own, and a church-raised young woman beginning to interrogate the values she grew up with.
Wonka’s The Golden Ticket – Netflix, September 23
Fifty-five years after the release of the 1971 film, Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory becomes the setting for a large-scale reality competition.
Twelve pairs of contestants enter a full-sized recreation of the famous factory and encounter a succession of Wonka-inspired games, temptations and challenges. Winning requires more than physical ability, with tests designed to probe strategy, judgement and how contestants behave when presented with irresistible opportunities.
Presiding over the factory is a recreated version of Gene Wilder’s Wonka voice, produced with the consent of the late actor’s estate. The familiar presence guides, provokes and occasionally taunts contestants as they move deeper into the competition.
Blood Legacy Season 2 – Netflix, September 24
The Ndlovu empire begins collapsing from both inside and outside as the South African drama returns for its second season.
Khanyi, played by Xolile Tshabalala, ended the first chapter framed for her father’s murder and abducted by a corrupt politician. Season 2 finds her fighting to clear her name and recover her inheritance while the family business deteriorates publicly.
Mandla, played by Buyile Mdladla, is drawn further into political corruption under Minister Titus, while Siya becomes involved in a forbidden romance.
The most dangerous threat may be information. A manuscript containing some of the Ndlovu family’s darkest secrets has been leaked to the press, turning private crimes and betrayals into public ammunition as various members of the dynasty scramble to preserve what remains.
Minerva Academy – Netflix, September 22
Three teenagers enter an unforgiving military high school in Naples for completely different reasons in Minerva Academy.
Salvo, played by Ciro Minopoli, has grown up in a group home and enrols with a private objective: discovering what happened to his best friend, whose disappearance remains suspicious. Vincenzo, played by Biagio Venditti, arrives determined to follow his military father’s footsteps. Camilla, played by Margherita Buoncristiani, is a privileged Milanese teenager sent there by a father who has run out of patience.
Inspired by the historic Nunziatella Military Academy, Minerva operates according to uncompromising rules. Phones are forbidden, romantic relationships are prohibited and mistakes carry consequences.
For Salvo, however, surviving the academy is only part of the challenge. Somewhere inside its rigid institution may lie the truth he came looking for.
Agadha – ZEE5, September 25
Faith and supernatural terror collide in Agadha, which centres on Mahadevi, a woman whose spiritual gifts become her family’s only defence against an approaching evil.
The danger is connected to a forbidden cave and a terrifying entity known as Agadha. When the threat begins closing in on those she loves, Mahadevi is left with little choice but to enter a place others have been warned to avoid.
Her journey becomes both a physical confrontation with the entity and a test of the spiritual abilities that have distinguished her from those around her. With her family facing impending doom, retreat is no longer an option.
Mango Pachcha – JioHotstar, September 25
Sanchith Sanjeev plays Prashanth, better known as Pachcha, whose apparently ordinary existence running a video-rental shop in Mysuru conceals an inheritance he never expected.
Following his father’s death, Pachcha discovers and takes over the secret marijuana-smuggling operation his father had been running. What might initially appear to be an opportunity for easy money instead draws him steadily further into organised crime.
His partnership with a corrupt mayor only tightens the trap, leaving Pachcha navigating a criminal ecosystem where business and political power are deeply intertwined.
Kajal Kunder and Prashanth Hiremath also star in the Kannada crime drama, directed by Viveka.
Angikaaram – Sun NXT, September 25
A young athlete takes his fight from the running track to the courtroom in this Tamil sports drama written and directed by Thenpathiyan.
Aathiran is a gifted runner from a Chennai slum whose talent earns him an opportunity to represent India at the Commonwealth Games. Years of work appear to have finally opened a path towards international competition.
Then a politically influenced sports association blocks him from participating.
Rather than quietly surrendering the opportunity, Aathiran challenges the decision in court, turning his individual sporting ambition into a larger battle for recognition and fairness. Kotapadi J. Rajesh, Sindhoori Vishwanath, Mansoor Ali Khan, Viji Venkatesh, Vasundhara Kashyap and Rangaraj Pandey feature in the ensemble.
Habeebi – SonyLIV, September 25
Romance runs into the weight of family and community expectations in Habeebi, a Tamil drama set within a Muslim community in southern Tamil Nadu.
The story centres on a young couple whose relationship creates friction around them, gradually drawing their families and community into what initially appears to be an intimate decision between two people.
Alongside the central romance, the film examines changing attitudes within the community and the tension between inherited traditions and the choices of a younger generation.
Esha M, Malavika Manoj, Kasthuri Raja and Dhanashree Sudhakaran star in the film, written by VS Mohamed Ameen and directed by Meera Kathiravan.
Rise And Fall Season 2 – Prime Video, September 26
Rise And Fall returns for a second season with former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag taking over hosting duties.
The reality competition places 15 contestants inside a deliberately unstable social hierarchy where nobody’s position is guaranteed. Participants must negotiate a format in which power can change hands and those enjoying privileges at one moment may find themselves considerably less comfortable later.
With status constantly shifting, the competition depends as much on relationships and strategy as it does on individual performance. Alliances become particularly fragile when the people contestants need on their way upwards may be the same ones they encounter if their fortunes suddenly reverse.
