Prime Video Announces 58 Indian Titles for Next Two Years

Amazon Prime Video has unveiled 58 Indian titles for the following two years — 2022, 2023, and early 2024 — and they’re filled with sufficient names that there is one thing to please everybody. They star the likes of Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Katrina Kaif, Ranveer Singh, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Salman Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Arya, Sonakshi Sinha, Jacqueline Fernandez, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Aditi Rao Hyadri, Juhi Chawla, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Abhishek Bachchan, Jitendra Kumar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Arya, Naga Chaitanya, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Aishwarya Rajesh, Ramya Nambeesan, and Vidya Balan. And they arrive from the minds of Vikramaditya Motwane, Raj & DK, Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar, Sudip Sharma, Nikkhil Advani, Farhan Akhtar, Puneet Krishna, Anu Menon, Abhishek Sharma, and Rohit Shetty.

Farhan and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment — finest identified for Mirzapur on Prime Video, and behind Bollywood films reminiscent of Dil Chahta Hai — is the most typical fixture in Amazon’s new Indian slate with 9 initiatives in complete throughout the board. That’s thanks to 5 licensed movies which can premiere in cinemas first, earlier than streaming solely on Prime Video. The different 4 are originals, together with the returning Mirzapur and Made in Heaven, alongside new sequence Dahaad with Sonakshi Sinha, and Bambai Meri Jaan with Kay Kay Menon. Other main manufacturing homes embody Yash Raj Films (5 movies, all licensed), Johar’s Dharma (two originals, three licensed), Abundantia Entertainment (two originals and two co-productions), and Raj & DK’s D2R Films (three originals).

This is the most important slate Amazon has introduced in a single go from India, and there’ll little doubt be extra reveals throughout the following two years. At its “Prime Video Presents India” occasion on Thursday in Mumbai, Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke stated this was a part of its efforts to double funding in producing native content material from India over the following 5 years. No live performance funding numbers had been supplied although. In early 2020, when Amazon founder and then-CEO Jeff Bezos visited India, he had principally stated the identical factor — that Amazon had “made a decision to double down our Prime Video investments here in India.”

Among the 58 Indian titles coming to Prime Video, there are 35 sequence and 23 films. If you had been to interrupt it down additional, Amazon introduced 18 new authentic scripted sequence and 4 documentary sequence. Additionally, it renewed three ongoing scripted sequence, and gave us first appears at or supplied extra particulars for six returning ones and 4 new sequence. On the flicks aspect, there are 17 licensed movies from the likes of YRF and Excel Media (5 every, as I stated beforehand), Ajay Devgn FFilms (4 movies), and Dharma (three). That leaves six films, amongst which there’s 5 new bulletins, alongside a primary have a look at Akshay Kumar-led Ram Setu.

That’s lots to parse via, which is why we have divided all of it in neat lists under you can rapidly parse via. If you need to study extra, make sure you try our devoted protection from Amazon’s Prime Video Presents India occasion on Wednesday — hooked up under — for all the brand new Indian films, sequence, documentaries, and actuality sequence coming your method over the following two years.

At an occasion in Mumbai on Thursday, Amazon additionally introduced a rental possibility for films on Prime Video. The greatest new names at launch embody the likes of Robert Pattinson-led The Batman, the Marvel Cinematic Universe journey Spider-Man: No Way Home, the 2022 slasher Scream that is the fifth chapter within the sequence, and the Roland Emmerich sci-fi catastrophe Moonfall. Pricing varies between Rs. 99 and Rs. 499 — and there does not appear to be any shopping for choices, not like with Apple TV, Google Play Movies, and BookMyShow Stream. You can solely hire them.

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Adhura — from Nikkhil Advani, with Ishwak Singh and Rasika Dugal

Bambai Meri Jaan — starring Kay Kay Menon

Call Me Bae — from Karan Johar

Crash Course — from Vijay Maurya

Dahaad — from Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar, starring Sonakshi Sinha

Dhootha — starring Naga Chaitanya and Parvathy Thiruvothu

Farzi — from Raj & DK, starring Shahid Kapoor and Vijay Sethupathi

Gulkanda Tales — from Raj & DK, starring Kunal Khemu and Pankaj Tripathi

Happy Family Conditions Apply — starring Raj Babbar and Ratna Pathak Shah

Hush Hush — starring Juhi Chawla and Soha Ali Khan

Jee Karda — starring Tamannaah and Suhail Nayyar

Jubilee — from Vikramaditya Motwane, starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Aditi Rao Hyadri

P.I. Meena — starring Tanya Maniktala and Jisshu Sengupta

Shehar – Lakhot — from Navdeep Singh and Devika Bhagat

Suzhal: The Vortex — from Pushkar and Gayatri, starring Aishwarya Rajesh

Sweet Kaaram Coffee — starring Lakshmi, Madhoo, and Santhy Balachandran

The Village — starring Arya

Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie — starring S.J. Suryah

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Ammu — starring Aishwarya Lekshmi

Aye Watan…Mere Watan — from Karan Johar

Maja Maa — from Anand Tiwari, starring Madhuri Dixit Nene

Neeyat — from Anu Menon, starring Vidya Balan, Ram Kapoor, and Rahul Bose

Tiku Weds Sheru — starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui

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This is AP Dhillon — from government producer Erik Barmack

Cinema… Marte Dum Tak — from Vasan Bala and Vice Media

Dancing on the Grave — from Patrick Graham and India Today Productions

India Love Project — from Karan Johar