Streaming in August 2021: Shershaah, Dial 100, Bhuj The Pride of India
Mark your calendar as we list all the movies and web series which would start streaming in August.
As August arrives, prepare yourself to watch a variety of content on several streaming platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, ZEE5, BookMyShow Stream, Voot and several others.
From crime thrillers, action dramas to romantic comedies, there is something or other for fans of every genre. So, mark your calendar as we list all the movies and web series which would start streaming this month.
Netflix
Navarasa
Streaming on: August 6
The Tamil anthology Navarasa consists of nine short films based on nine ‘rasas’ (emotions) – anger, compassion, courage, disgust, fear, laughter, love, peace and wonder. It features actors Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swami, Siddharth, Prakash Raj, Saravanan, Alagam Perumal, Revathy, Nithya Menen, Parvathy Thiruvothu and Aishwarya Rajessh in films directed by Bejoy Nambiar, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Karthik Subbaraj, Karthick Naren, K.V. Anand, Ponram, Rathindran Prasad and Halitha Shameem. Apart from exploring nine emotions, the film also taps into different genres.
The Kissing Booth 3
Streaming on: August 11
The hit rom-com, based on books of the same name by Beth Reekles, starring Joey King, Jacob Elordi, and Joel Courtney, is returning with its last season. The official synopsis of the show reads, “It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she’s facing the hardest decision of her life: whether to move across the country with her dreamy boyfriend Noah or fulfill her lifelong promise to go to college with her BFF Lee. Whose heart will Elle break as The Kissing Booth trilogy comes to an end?”
Comedy Premium League
Streaming on: August 20
The new comedy series, Comedy Premium League, promises to not “just tickle your funnybone but also fracture it”. It will have sixteen comedians, divided into four teams, who will compete to become comedy champions. The four teams which will be competing for the winner’s title are Lovable Langoors (Amit Tandon, Samay Raina, Rytasha Rathore and Aadar Malik), Naazuk Nevle (Mallika Dua, Rahul Subramanian, Urooj Ashfaq and Rahul Dua), Gharelu Gilaharis (Kenny Sebastian, Prashasti Singh, Kaneez Surka and Aakash Gupta) and IDGAF Iguanas (Sumukhi Suresh, Tanmay Bhat, Rohan Joshi and Sumaira Shaikh).
Apple TV Plus
Mr Corman
Streaming on: August 6
Written, directed, produced by and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the comedy-drama Mr Corman follows the story of Josh Corman, an artist at heart but not by trade. He fails to realise his dream of becoming a musician and his fiancee leaves him too. Despite knowing he still has a lot to be thankful for, he suffers from anxiety, loneliness and self-doubt. Described as “darkly funny, oddly beautiful and deeply heartfelt”, Mr Corman focuses on the generation of 30-somethings, which is “rich with good intentions, poor with student loans and working to become grown-ups sometime before they’re senior citizens.”
CODA
Streaming on: August 13
Written and directed by Siân Heder, CODA is centred around a seventeen-year-old girl Ruby (Emilia Jones), the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a CODA, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat. But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams. The show won big at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
See Season 2
Streaming on: August 27
The basic premise of See, available for streaming on Apple TV, is of humanity set in the distant future after a deadly virus has wreaked havoc. Without the sense of sight, society has had to find new ways to survive. With Baba Voss (Jason Momoa) as the central figure, the second season will see him trying to reunite his torn-apart family while hoping to get away from war and politics, only if it were that easy. The emergence of his nemesis brother Edo Voss (Dave Bautista) will only complicate matters.
MX Player
Balcony Buddies
Streaming on: August 1
Starring Aisha Ahmed and Amol Parashar, Balcony Buddies is about an accidental friendship between two strangers in lockdown who have only one thing in common – a balcony facing each other. Sunanda (Ahmed) is bored out of her wits in lockdown and yoga is her only saviour until one day she notices a stranger across the balcony imitating her asanas. Just when she is about to get creeped out, the stranger asks her if she could teach him yoga. Thus begins the story of Sunanda and Prateek (Parashar), aka the Balcony Buddies.
Amazon Prime Video
Shershaah
Streaming on: August 12
ased on the life of Param Vir Chakra awardee Captain Vikram Batra who was killed by enemy fire during the 1999 Kargil War, the Vishnu Varadhan directorial features actor Siddharth Malhotra in the lead role. The title of the film refers to Batra’s code name. The film also stars Kiara Advani as Dimple Cheema, Captain Batra’s fiancee who never married after he was martyred. It traces the journey of Captain Vikram Batra from his age of innocent romance to his sacrifice for the country.