Gurudev Hoysala, Dasara and Pathu Thala on OTT today; which one will you watch?

March 30 was a big day for three south stars – Tollywood’s Natural Star Nani was presenting his biggest commercial film to date, Dasara, in theatres, Kannada’s Natarakshasa Daali Dhananjaya had his milestone 25th, Gurudev Hoysala, and Tamil cinema’s Simbu brought his version of Shivarajkumar-Sriimurali’s Mufti, as Pathu Thala. Interestingly, enough, all three films are also dropping on OTT on the exact same day – April 27.

Gurudev Hoysala and Pathu Thala are now on Amazon Prime Video, with the former streaming in Kannada only with English subtitles. Pathu Thala, despite being the Tamil remake of a Kannada film, will have Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada audio. Nani’s Dasara, which was a pan-India theatrical release, is now on Netflix with audio in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam.

Gurudev Hoysala, directed by N Vijay, was Daali Dhananjaya’s second collaboration with the banner, KRG Studios. A hard-hitting cop drama set in Belagavi, the film was widely appreciated for the subjects it addressed including caste-based hierarchy and the Karnataka-Maharashtra border issue.

Read our review: Gurudev Hoysala review: Dhananjaya and Naveen Shankar shine in this engaging action drama 

Dasara is a tale of friendship and revenge, set against the coal mines Veerlapally village in Telangana, with Nani and Dheekshith Shetty as childhood pals. There’s a love triangle at play too, with Nani, as Dharani, harbouring feelings for Vennela (Keerthy Suresh), while her heart beats for Suri (Dheekshith Shetty.

Read our review: Dasara Review : Has routine story but Nani's solid transformation makes it worth a watch 

Pathu Thala, meanwhile, is familiar terrain for Kannada film audiences. This is, after all, the Tamil version of director Narthan’s Mufti, which had Shivarajkumar and Sriimurali in the lead. Simbu took on Shivarajkumar’s character, while Gautham Karthik played Sriimurali’s role. The crux of the film revolves around an undercover cop infiltrating a gangster and kingmaker’s gang in the hope of finding enough dirt on him to take him down, only to find that there’s more than meets the eye. The Tamil version is not a scene-by-scene remake, but the main plot remains the same as Mufti.

Read our review: Pathu Thala review: Silambarasan's swag and AR Rahman's music elevate this partly engaging action drama 

And if none of these catch your fancy, wait a day, Nivin Pauly’s Thuramukham, a period film by director Rajeev Ravi about the feudal method that was employed to allocate the work for the day at the harbour, comes to SonyLiv.

Read our review: Thuramukham review: A powerful Nivin Pauly film