Special Ops 1.5, Red Notice, Kurup: 9 titles which are our prime picks this weekend

This weekend there’s a multi-language deal with for OTT platform lovers and moviegoers. Kay Kay Menon-starrer Special Ops returns on Disney+ Hotstar for its second season. With simply 4 episodes, it’s neither a prequel nor a sequel within the strictest sense.
For the moviegoers, Kurup is the spotlight of the weekend. One of essentially the most awaited movies of the 12 months, it’s a movie on legal Sukumara Kurup, with Dulquer Salmaan taking part in the lead function. It is offered in a number of languages.
Upping the oomph issue is Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot in Red Notice, which is offered on Netflix.
Special Ops 1.5- Disney+ Hotstar
Special Ops 1.5 is streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar. (Photo: PR)
Disney+ Hotstar present, Special Ops was a success among the many lots when it launched on the streaming big. Now it has returned with a prequel, titled Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story. It follows the origin story of how Kay Kay Menon’s Himmat Singh grew to become the legendary R&AW officer. Helmed by Neeraj Pandey, the net present additionally stars Vinay Pathak, Gautami Kapoor, Aftab Shivdasani, Aadil Khan, Parmeet Sethi, and Kali Prasad Mukherjee. Praising Menon’s Himmat Singh, The Indian Express’ movie critic Shubhra Gupta wrote, “He is still his sharp, sardonic self, pushing back at corrupt, incompetent seniors and catching the backs of the people he works with. This quality evokes undying admiration in Abbas Sheikh (Vinay Pathak), diligent cop and faithful collaborator, who picks up the threads, and gives us chapter and verse of his hero’s ascent. The interactions between two are the best part of this season too.”
Read the assessment of Special Ops 1.5 right here.
Adulting: Season 3 – Amazon Mini TV

Adulting Season 3, starring Aisha Ahmed and Yashaswini Dayama has premiered on Amazon miniTV. The sequence follows the story of two flatmates and finest associates, Ray and Nikhat. Like the final two seasons, this time too, the 2 women will probably be managing life amid the hustle and bustle of Mumbai. The new season additionally has some new additions to its solid as Nikhat unravels her love life, and Ray grows on the skilled entrance. The makers of the slice-of-life present have promised to take the viewers ‘through the unique yet relatable depiction of life in an urban jungle.’
Red Notice: Netflix
Red Notice is an motion heist thriller. (Photo: Netflix)
The Netflix movie Red Notice options Hollywood royalty — Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, and these three are sufficient to seize your consideration. Red Notice derives its title from the Interpol alert of the identical title. The official synopsis of the movie reads, “An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world’s most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI’s top profiler (Johnson) and two rival criminals (Gadot, Reynolds), there’s no telling what will happen.” The opinions, nevertheless, discuss overpromising and underdelivering.
Read the assessment of Red Notice right here.
Kurup: In Cinemas
Dulquer Salmaan as Sudhakara Kurup in Kurup. (Photo: KurupFilm/Twitter)
Dulquer Salmaan performs ‘India’s longest wished fugitive’ Sukumara Kurup in Srinath Rajendran directorial Kurup. The movie additionally stars Sobhita Dhulipala, Indrajith Sukumaran, Shine Tom Chacko, Sunny Wayne and Bharath Niwas. The movie tells the story of a conman who murdered a person named Chacko in 1984, and used the corpse to subsequently pretend his loss of life to assert insurance coverage cash. Kurup was to launch in May 2021. However, because of the Covid-19 second wave and subsequent lockdown, the movie was postponed. Upon its launch, the movie has obtained largely optimistic responses.
Read the assessment of Kurup right here.
Pushpaka Vimanam: In cinemas
Pushpaka Vimanam stars Anand Deverakonda within the lead function.
Pushpaka Vimanam is a household entertainer starring Anand Deverakonda, Geeth Saini, Saanve Megghana, Sunil, Naresh and Harsha Vardhan. The movie revolves round Deverakonda’s character whose spouse elopes every week after marriage. Govardhana Rao Deverakonda, Vijay Mattapally, and Pradeep Errabelly have produced the movie.
Read the assessment of Pushpaka Vimanam right here.
Raja Vikramarka: In cinemas
Kartikeya Gummakonda in Raja Vikramarka. (Photo: PR Handout)
The Telugu drama, directed by Sri Saripalli stars Kartikeya Gummakonda, Tanya Ravichandran, Tanikella Bharani and Pasupathy within the lead roles. Kartikeya stars as an secret agent with a comic book sense. For a covert operation, he befriends the daughter of the Home Minister of the state and tries to nab the culprits who appear to be planning one thing large within the metropolis.
Read the assessment of Raja Vikramarka right here.
Kanakam Kaamini Kalaham: Disney+ Hotstar
Kanakam Kaamini Kalaham is streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar.
Nivin Pauly’s Kanakam Kaamini Kalaham is the primary Malayalam movie to have OTT launch. Directed by Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval, the movie additionally stars Sudheesh, Jaffer Idduki, Joy Mathew, Sivadasan Kannur, Grace Antony and Vinay Forrt. Nivin Pauly’s Pavithran KV is a struggling junior artist in Malayalam cinema. He additionally runs an appearing academy. His spouse Haripriya (Grace Antony) is a former junior artiste in Malayalam soaps. Pavithran tries to save lots of his marriage with Haripriya by shopping for her a pair of gold earrings and so they take a trip to Munnar. What occurs between the 2 on the trip kinds the foremost plot of the story.
Read the assessment of Kanakam Kaamini Kalaham right here.

Our suggestions
Woh Kaun Thi: YouTube and Prime Video
Woh Kaun Thi can also be remembered for its melodious music.
Starring Sadhana and Manoj Kumar in lead roles, Woh Kaun Thi? is a horror thriller. It follows the story of Anand, a health care provider who believes he’s being adopted by a ghost, performed by Sadhana. His life takes a dramatic flip when he finds out that his new bride Sandhya is definitely a ghost. As Anand begins dropping his thoughts, individuals round him are additional intrigued concerning the id of the lady who has everybody puzzled. This is one fringe of the seat thriller that you could get pleasure from with your loved ones on weekend.
Persepolis: Apple TV
Are you up for an animated film? Persepolis, an animated movie for adults, is a few younger Iranian lady who grows up in a strictly orthodox authorities. It is predicated towards the backdrop of the Iranian revolution that befell in 1979. Writing concerning the movie in her column, Hollywood Rewind, indianexpress.com’s Anvita Singh wrote, “Persepolis is many things at once, it is a darkly comic film, it is also a historical-political drama and it works greatly as a ‘bildungsroman.’”