Modern Love Chennai + Kathal: Best new Indian serials and movies to watch this week
New Indian movies and TV shows to watch this week
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Top 5 new movies and TV series to watch this week
Modern Love Chennai will start streaming this week, and it is one of the most anticipated series (anthology) as its music, with 18 songs and instrumental pieces, has burst the charts. Most of those numbers are scored by the maestro Ilaiayaraaja, so they are a rage among youngsters.
Among the theatrical releases, the intriguingly titled Malayalam flick Neymar and the Tamil film Pichaikkaran 2 have a lot of hopes riding on them.
Want more? Check out these new releases on streaming platforms:
New on Netflix: Kathal – A Jackfruit Mystery
New on Zee5: Taj: Reign of Revenge Season 2
New on Disney+: Dead Pixels, Soppana Sundari
New on Prime Video: Modern Love Chennai, Yeh Meri Family 2
Kathal review: Tickles but doesn’t bite
The small-town characters and the setting look real and interesting. Yet, the film takes too many issues — Corruption, caste discrimination, economic disparity, media trials, sexism and human trafficking — on board without doing justice to all. Kathal is fun. But it could have been a lot more with better writing.
Modern Love Chennai review: The best one in the franchise
Modern Love Chennai has one collective creative producer — Thiagarajan Kumararaja and team oversaw the entire project — and it helps. Finally, we get a bunch of stories- six to be precise- that feel part of a single source in terms of technical feel. That helps even if the sensibility and stories are vastly different as they should be. Modern Love Chennai is better off than Mumbai and Hyderabad. In style, substance and sensibilities.
New releases by language:
New Hindi movies and TV shows: Kathal – A Jackfruit Mystery, Yeh Meri Family 2
New Malayalam movies and TV shows: Neymar, Janaki Jane
New Tamil movies and serials: Pichaikkaran 2, Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir
New Telugu movies and serials: Agent, Dead Pixels
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