In this post, I am sharing the updated Confirmed list of Movies and Web-Series releasing in October 2023 on OTT and Cinemas. After a good number of releases in the last month we have good number of releases in this month as of now. This new month is bringing a slew of new shows and series that you simply cannot afford to miss. The release dates may vary because this information is solely based on the announcements made by the producers/production companies.
All eyes on coming Dusshera clash of Bollywood and South Indian films and after the super success of Jawan & Fukrey 3 everyone is waiting for Ganapath. It has very good curiosity among audience especially. There are still few movies are premiering on digital platform instead of cinemas to avoid clashes. For audiences OTT platforms are like a cinema hall after the lockdown, they are enjoying different contents in form of movies and web-series on different platforms. It will double bonanza for audiences as they can watch the films on OTT as well as cinemas of their choice.
Here I am sharing entire list of movies and web-series releasing this month on OTT and Theatres:
1. Kushi (Movie)
Release Date: 1st October 2023 in cinemas & 1st October 2023 on Netflix
Cast: Vijay Deverakonda, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Jayaram, Sachin Khedakar, Murali Sharma, Lakshmi, Ali, Rohini, Vennela Kishore, Rahul Ramakrishna, Srikanth Iyengar and Saranya Pradeep
Director: Shiva Nirvana
Details: Worlds and families collide when the son of a prominent atheist falls head over heels for the daughter of his father’s nemesis, a revered Hindu leader.
2. Dono (Movie)
Release Date: 5th October 2023 in Cinema
Cast: Rajveer Deol, Paloma Dhillon, Kanikka Kapur, Poojan Chhabra and Rohan Khurana
Director: Avnish S. Barjatya
Details: The film follows the story two strangers Dev and Meghna. Dev (friend of the dulhan) meets Meghna (friend of the dulha) at a lavish destination wedding. The film explores their relationship.
3. Khufiya (Movie)
Release Date: 5th October 2023 on Netflix
Cast: Tabu, Ali Fazal, Ashish Vidyarthi, Atul Kulkarni and Wamiqa Gabbi
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Details: Krishna Mehra is an operative at the Research & Analysis Wing. She is assigned to track down the mole selling India’s defense secrets, while grappling with her dual identity as a spy and lover.
4. Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty (Movie)
Release Date: 7th September 2023 in Cinema & 5th October 2023 on Netflix
Cast: Anushka Shetty and Naveen Polishetty
Director: Mahesh BabuPachigolla
Details: Miss Shetty is a feminist living in London and wants to be single forever. Mr. Polishetty from Hyderabad in Telangana, India, wants to be in a committed relationship. The two appear to be in different stages of life but somehow connect.
5. Mumbai Dairies (Web-Series)
Release date: 6th October 2023 on Prime Video
Cast: Mohit Raina, Konkana Sen Sharma, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Natasha Bhardwaj, Satyajeet Dubey, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Tina Desai, Prakash Belawadi, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Ridhi Dogra, Balaji Gauri and Sonali Kulkarni
Director: Nikkhil Advani
Details: It s a medical thriller set in the Emergency Room of a government hospital. The series explores the challenges faced by the medical staff at the hospital as well as other first responders across the city of Mumbai in dealing with a crisis of immense magnitude. In this battle to save lives and heal others, the ones doing the fixing are the most broken.
6. Mission Raniganj (Movie)
Release Date: 6th October 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Ravi Kishan, Kumud Mishra, Rajesh Sharma, Varun Badola and Pavan Malhotra
Director: Tinu Suresh Desai
Details: It is inspired by a real-life hero, Late Jaswant Singh Gill, an engineer who led a challenging rescue mission to save trapped miners from a flooded coal mine. This edge-of-the-seat thriller highlights Gill’s courage and relentless efforts, showcasing his resilience to overcome adversities.
7. Thank You For Coming (Movie)
Release Date: 6th October 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Bhumi Pednekar, Shehnaaz Gill, Dolly Singh, Kusha Kapila and Shibani Bedi
Director: Karan Boolani
Details: Kanika Kapoor is a die-hard romantic seeks an arranged marriage after a series of unsuccessful relationships. At her engagement she invites her ex-lovers, triggering a mysterious gift her first orgasm. A comedic yet introspective journey unfolds, exploring love, society and the essence of female pleasure in 2023.
8. Loki 2 (Movie)
Release Date: 6th October 2023 on Hotstar
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Tara Strong, Jonathan Majors and Owen Wilson
Director: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Details: Second season sees Loki working with Mobius M. Mobius, Hunter B-15, and other members of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to navigate the multiverse in order to find Sylvie, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes.
9. OMG 2 (Movie)
Release Date: 11th August 2023 in Cinema & 8 October 2023 on Netflix
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi and Yami Gautam
Director: Amit Rai
Details: Life is bliss until one day Kanti Sharan Mudgal`s son Vivek is blamed for immoral conduct and expelled from school. Overwhelmed, Kanti plans to leave town until a divine intervention leads him to seek justice by taking those responsible to court.
10. Sultan Of Delhi (Web-Series)
Release Date: 13th October 2023 on Hotstar
Cast: Tahir Raj Bhasin, Mouni Roy, Anjum Sharma, Vinay Pathak, Anupriya Goenka, Nishant Dahiya, Mehreen Pirzada and Harleen Sethi
Director: Milan Luthria
Details: The series is set in Delhi in the year 1962 and is based on writer Arnab Ray’s book Sultan of Delhi: Ascension. A survivor of Partition becomes the rising force of Delhi’s underworld. As a new leader emerges, a ruthless game of power, betrayal and politics begin.
11. Dhak Dhak (Movie)
Release Date: 13th October 2023 in Cinema
Cast: Ratna Pathak Shah, Dia Mirza, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanjana Sanghi
Director: Tarun Dudeja
Details: Four women, who set out for a road trip to the highest motorable pass in the world on their bikes on a journey of self-discovery.
12. Permanent Roommates Season 3 (Web-series)
Release Date: 18th October 2023 on Prime Video
Cast: Sumeet Vyas, Nidhi Singh, Sheeba Chaddha, Deepak Mishra, Anandeshwar Dwivedi, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Shishir Sharma, Ambrish Verma, Ayesha Raza Mishra and Sapna Bhatt
Director: Shreyansh Pandey
Details: A couple, who were in a long-distance relationship for 3 years, face the prospect of getting married.
13. Leo (Movie)
Release Date: 19th October 2023 in cinemas
Cast: Vijay, Trisha, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Sarja, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Mansoor Ali Khan and Mysskin
Director: Lokesh Kanagaraj
Details: Parthiban “Parthi” is a chocolatier who gets targeted by gangsters Antony and Harold Das as they suspect him to be their estranged younger brother Leo Das.
14. Bhagvanth Kesari (Movie)
Release Date: 19th October 2023 in cinemas
Cast: Nandamuri Balakrishna, Arjun Rampal, Kajal Aggarwal and Sreeleela
Director: Anil Ravipudi
Details: Nelakonda Bhagavanth Kesari forces her niece Viji to join Army and pursue her career so that she can handle tough situations and become strong in life, but Kesari’s life takes a drastic turn when he soon locks horns with a wealthy business magnate Rahul Sanghvi. As a result, Kesari must bring Rahul’s gang down and must protect Viji from being dead, and protect her aunt and his wife, Kathyayani.
15. Tiger Nageswara Rao (Movie)
Release Date: 20th October 2023 in cinemas
Cast: Ravi Teja, Nupur Sanon, Gayatri Bharadwaj, Anupam Kher and Jisshu Sengupta
Director: Vamsee
Details: During the 1970s, Tiger Nageswara Rao is a thief who dominates the realm of terror in Stuartpuram and also masterminds a series of daring heists, where his ingenious methods of outwitting the cops become the stuff of local legend. The rest of the story revolves around Tiger’s thrilling escapades and captivating cat-and-mouse game between him and the cops.
16. Yaariyan 2 (Movie)
Release Date: 20th October 2023 in cinemas
Cast: Divya Khosla Kumar, Yash Dasgupta, Anaswara Rajan, Meezaan Jafri, Warina Hussain, Priya Prakash Varrier and Pearl V Puri
Director: Radhika Rao & Vinay Sapru
Details: It is a remake of the 2014 Malayalam film Bangalore Days by Anjali Menon and revolves around the relationship between three cousins as they navigate through their difficulties in life.
17. Ganapath (Movie)
Release Date: 20th October 2023 in cinemas
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Kriti Sanon, Amitabh Bachchan and Eli Avram
Director: Vikas Bahl
Details: In a dystopian future, Ganapath, a relentless and skilled vigilante, embarks on a mission to dismantle a powerful criminal empire that has gripped the city in fear, he becomes a symbol of hope for the oppressed in which leads dark.
18. Aspirants 2 (Web-Series)
Release Date: 25th October 2023 on Prime Video
Cast: Naveen Kasturia, Shivankit Parihar, Abhilash Thapliyal, Namita Dubey and Sunny Hinduja
Director: Apoorv Singh Karki
Details: The latest season will follow the journey of its characters – Abhilash, Guri and Sandeep as they navigate life through love, career, ambition and dreams, with stakes much higher and double the fun in the second attempt.
19. 12th Fail (Movie)
Release Date: 27th October 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Vikrant Massey, Medha Shankar, Anshuman Pushkar, Anant Vijay Joshi, Geeta Agarwal and Priyanshu Chatterjee
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Details: It is an incredible, inspiring real-life story of a boy from Chambal who aims to achieve an impossible dream of passing the world’s toughest civil services entrance exam, that of the Union Public Service Commission.
20. Tejas (Movie)
Release Date: 27th October 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Anshul Chauhan and Varun Mitra
Director: Sarvesh Mewara
Details: It is the story of the courageous female IAF officer Tejas Gill, who’s determined to safeguard the nation at all costs. It’s India’s first air action film which also showcases India’s first indigenous fighter jet Tejas.
21. Aankh Micholi (Movie)
Release Date: 27th October 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Paresh Rawal, Abhimanyu, Mrunal Thakur, Sharman Joshi, Divya Dutta, Vijay Raaz, Abhishek Banerjee, Grusha Kapoor and Darshan Jariwala
Director: Umesh Shukla
Details: family of misfits is trying to hide some secrets from the NRI suitor and his family as they want their daughter to get married to a well-to-do NRI guy. Then a series of comical twists and turns.
22. Sajini Shinde Ka Viral Video (Movie)
Release Date: 27th October 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Nimrat Kaur, Radhika Madan, Bhagyashree, Subodh Bhave, Soham Majumdar, Chinmay Mandekar, Shruti Vyas, Sumeet Vyas, Sneha Raikar, Ashutosh Gaikwad and Rashmi Agdekar
Director: Mikhil Musale
Details: Story revolves around the disappearance and seeming suicide of a schoolteacher Sajini. The premise sees that Sajini has likely killed herself after the leak of something sexually graphic which happened to her, prompting her to allegedly kill herself. However, police officer who is investigating this case doesn’t really believe that Sajini is dead, let alone committed suicide and instead believes that all of this is a facade hiding something more sinister.
Durgesh Tiwary’s View: In my view Leo, Ganapath, 12th Fail & Tejas are the movie to watch in the 1st half. In web-series I am looking forward for Aspirants 2. What’s your top picks among all movies and web series. You can share your view in comment section.
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