OTTplay Bingelist with RJ Stutee: What to Watch in February Week 3

Here’s our curated list to help you identify your binge for the week:

What to Watch in February Week 3

Here’s a list of all that’s worth binging on this week across OTT platforms:

A THURSDAY - When Naina, a school teacher kidnaps 16 students and puts forth her list of demands, it opens up layers after layers of what lies ahead. The series of events not just shake the Mumbai police but the entire nation. The movie, a sort of spiritual sequel to the acclaimed A Wednesday, is being pitched as a suspenseful drama punctuated with exciting thrills. Director Behzad Khambata who has written the script with Ashley Michael Lobo the story sets up Yama Gautam as an unhinged criminal. Apart from Gautam, we have Maya Sarao, Neha Dhupia and Dimple Kapadia in significant roles. Atul Kulkarni plays super cop Javed Khan trying to get a grip on the situation. If you love suspense and mystery movies watch it On Disney+Hotstar.

THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL - The Emmy and Golden Globe winner returns with yet another new season. Set in the 1950s, the series follows the titular character through New York’s Upper West Side. She has the ‘perfect’ husband, two kids, and an elegant house. While life seems to be perfect, she discovers a hidden talent of stand-up comedy. Season 3 ended with Midge Maisel and her friend-manager Susie Myerson (Alex Borstein) being dropped off at the tarmac after Midge was dropped from pop singer Shy Baldwin's (Leroy McClain) world tour, for all but outing the closeted singer during her set. There is more in store as we see our favourite Girl comic fighting to regain lost glory, Mrs Maisel has been greenlit for the 5th and final season. Go watch it on Amazon Prime Video.

PETITE MAMAN – Young Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mum Marion used to play and where she built a treehouse. One day Nelly’s mother suddenly leaves and this is when she meets another girl her own age in the woods building her very own treehouse and this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Tender and with the sublime emotional depth we look at a loss through the eyes of a child and witness a story that plays out like a fairytale that deals with bridging the generational divide. Directed by Celine Sciamma after the immensely well-made Portrait of a Lady on Fire watch it On Mubi.

MITHYA - Rohan Sippy’s psychological thriller series Mithya is an adaptation of the 2019 British series Cheat which starred Katherine Kelly and Molly Windsor. Starring Huma Qureshi, the series also marks the debut of actress Bhagyashree’s daughter Avantika Dassani. Set in Darjeeling, the six-part dark and intense series follows the conflicted relationship between a Hindi literature professor Juhi, played by Qureshi, and her student Rhea. The series also features Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Rajit Kapur, and Samir Soni. “Hum sab mein ek cheat bhi hota hai aur ek original bhi” says Huma’s character. What follows is an exploration of a messy and increasingly disturbing equation between Hindi professor Juhi Adhikari and her student Rhea. The promising plot by writers Anvita Dutt and Althea Kaushal has the building blocks of an intriguing thriller. Watch it on Zee5.

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE – It’s a sequel to the original and is now on Netflix. After nearly 50 years of hiding Leatherface returns to terrorise a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town. Melody, her teenage sister Lila, her friends Dante and Ruth are heading to this abandoned ghost town in Texas. By accident, they spark a tragedy that makes things go bad. This movie has some awesome and gruesomely violent gore to it. Once the killings start they are brutal and the camera gives us all the bloody visuals. A lot of screening, running around, the gore is basically what one expects from the genre. The story sets up a good unsettling atmosphere at the beginning of the movie and then it does carry tension throughout that comes from the chase although all plausibility needs to be suspended if you truly want to enjoy it.

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