The Family Man Season 2
Release date: June 4, 2021
Language: Hindi
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Director: Raj & DK, Suparn S Varma
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Samantha Akkineni, Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Sunny Hinduja, Sharad Kelkar, Darshan Kumaar, Dalip Tahil, VipinKumar A Sharma, Seema Biswas.
Synopsis: Perhaps the most expected web series of the year. The first season, of 10 episodes, tasted enormous success. The second season has already hit the headlines for an unwitting controversy with the impassioned section of Tamils cut up with the alleged representation of Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers (LTTE). Manoj Bajpayee returns to his iconic common-man character Srikant Tiwari. The trailer has already surpassed 50 million views. This season also stars Samantha Akkineni as the lead antagonist.
Jagame Thanthiram
Release date: June 18, 2021
Language: Tamil
Platform: Netflix
Director: Karthik Subbaraj
Cast: Dhanush, Aishwarya Lekshmi, James Cosmo, Joju George, Kalaiyarasan.
Synopsis: National award-winning actor Dhanush just had a great release on OTT through the much-acclaimed Karnan. But Jagame Thanthiram is going to be more mainstream commercial entertainer. He plays Suruli, a reckless, gangster from Madurai who happens to get recruited by a London-based politically-affluent gang leader and his men to understand and break into the illegal underworld operations and gold business of London. The fundamental theme of Jagame Thanthiram is about a fight for what you can truly call home seen from the perspectives of three different characters.
Loki
Release date: June 9, 2021
Language: English
Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
Director: Kate Herron
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku.
Synopsis: The mercurial villain Loki (Tom Hiddleston) resumes his role as the God of Mischief in this Marvel Studio's new series that takes place after the events of “Avengers: Endgame.” After stealing the Tesseract during the events of Avengers: Endgame, an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority (TVA), the bureaucratic entity that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a "time variant", or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat. Loki ends up trapped in his own crime thriller, traveling through time and altering human history. Or so reads an official release from the studios.
Sunflower
Release date: June 11, 2021
Language: Hindi
Platform: Zee5
Director: Rahul Sengupta and Vikas Bahl
Cast: Sunil Grover, Ranvir Shorey, Girish Kulkarni, Shonali Nagrani, Sonal Jha, Ashish Vidyarthi.
Synopsis: A murder happens at house number 1001 in the eponymous Sunflower housing society. Inspector Digendra (Ranvir Shorey) is out to find the killer or killers. Among the suspects is Sonu Singh, played by Sunil Grover. This will give you a clear indication that this web series will be an intriguing mix of mystery and mirth. Comedy and crime are not nature born friends. But this series bravely attempts to bring them together.
Rang De
Release date: June 12, 2021
Language: Telugu
Platform: Zee5
Director: Venky Atluri
Cast: Nithiin, Keerthy Suresh.
Synopsis: This is a feel good romantic drama that released in theatres late March this year. It is a standard story of a man and woman enjoying love-hate feelings towards each other. But the point of such romantic tales is not in whether they will get together in the end --- they obviously will hold hands together --- but in the cute exchanges that are about both anger and affection. Nitin and Keerthy Suresh fit the bill of the young lovers to a T. Just the kind of cute, cool film for the heat-filled times.
Ray
Release date: June 25
Language: Hindi
Platform: Netflix
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Gajraj Rao, Radhika Madan, Kay Kay Menon
Synopsis: This is a new series based on four short stories of Satyajit Ray, the legendary Indian film director. The series deals with four different individuals who go on to achieve great things in their respective fields. It will also show on what cost the success was achieved and will the success be their own undoing. For the first season, four episodes will be streamed. Lead characters include Manoj Bajpayee, Ali Fazal, Kay Kay Menon and Harshvarrdhan Kapoor.
Sherni
Release date: June 18
Language: Hindi
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Director: Amit V Masurkar
Cast: Vidya Balan, Sharat Saxena, Vijay Raaz
Synopsis: Vidya Balan will be seen in the lead role in this Amazon Original Movie. Vidya, a jaded forest officer leads a team of trackers and locals intending to capture an unsettled tigress. In the same process, she also battles against intense obstacles and pressures, both natural and man-made.
Skater Girl
Release date: June 11
Language: Hindi
Platform: Netflix
Cast: Rachel Sanchita Gupta, Shraddha Gaikwad, Amy Maghera
Synopsis: A sports drama based movie starring Rachel Sanchita Gupta and Shafin Patel. Rachel plays Prerna who is a teen living in a village with her family and bound by tradition and duty to her parents. Prerna along with other teens in the village discovers skateboarding as a life changing passion and she faces a bumpy road ahead of her to follow her passion and achieve her dreams.
Panic
Release date: May 28
Language: English
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Cast: Olivia Welch, Mike Faist, Jessica Sula
Synopsis: Panic is an American teen drama series written by Lauren Oliver. The series takes place in Texas. It's about graduating seniors risking their lives competing in a series of challenges for the chance to win life-changing money every summer. The first season started off after the death of two players and much more life at high risk. This time around, 23 players enter the game, but only one will win the game.
DOM
Release date: June 4
Language: English, Regional
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Cast: Gabriel Leone, Flávio Tolezani, Filipe Bragança
Synopsis: An eight-episode series, DOM is about a father who never stopped fighting against drugs and a son who never stopped using them. It's like two sides of the same coin. Victor, a cop who has fought all his life to curb cocaine trafficking. His son is a drug addict who has become one of the most wanted burglars in Rio de Janeiro. The big question, will a father’s love be enough to save his son’s life? It will be answered in the season finale.
Other films and series to look forward to in June
- Mortal Kombat - BookMyShow Stream/YouTube - June 4
- Sweet Tooth - Netflix - June 4
- Lupin Part 2 - Netflix - June 11
- Black Summer Season 2 - Zee5 - June 17
- Samantar 2 - MX Player - June 24
- Bo Burnham Inside - Netflix - Available now
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