In this post, I am sharing the Confirmed list of Movies and Web-Series releasing in May 2023 on OTT and Cinemas. After a least number of releases in the last month we have good number of releases in this month. Theis new month is bringing a slew of new shows and series that you simply cannot afford to miss. Although this month we don’t have any big films. The release dates may vary because this information is solely based on the announcements made by the producers/production companies.
All eyes on The Kerala Story as it has good curiosity among audience and could be game changer like The Kashmir Files. There are many movies are premiering on digital platform instead of cinemas. 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. Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar (Movie)
Release Date: 8th March 2023 in cinemas & digital premiere on Netflix from 3rd May 2023
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Anubhav Singh Bassi, Monica Chaudhary, Hasleen Kaur and Boney Kapoor
Director: Luv Ranjan
Details: Both belonging to wealthy Delhi families, Rohan Arora is besotted with Nisha Malhotra the moment he sees her on their Spain vacation. The two hit it off in no time but modern love has a way of complicating things.
2. The Kerala Story (Movie)
Release Date: 5th May 2023 in cinemas
Cast: Adah Sharma, Yogita Bihani, Sonia Balani, Siddhi Idnani, Vijay Krishna, Pranay Pachauri and Pranav Misshra
Director: Sudipto Sen
Details: A spine-chilling, never told before true story revealing a dangerous conspiracy that has been hatched against India. The Kerala Story is a compilation of the true stories of three young girls from different parts of Kerala. Thousands of Innocent women have been systematically converted, radicalized & their lives destroyed. It’s their side of the story.
3. Afwaah (Movie)
Release date: 5th May 2023 in cinemas
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Bhumi Pednekar, Sumeet Vyas, Sharib Hashmi, Sumit Kaul, TJ Bhanu, Rockey Raina and Eisha Chopra
Director: Sudhir Mishra
Details: Sometimes, the monster chasing you is a rumor. Rahab is a top advertising professional and Nivi is a political heiress, find no place to hide as they get entangled in a vicious rumor created by the social media machinery.
4. Firelfies (Web-Series)
Release Date: 5th May 2023 on Zee5
Cast: Aekam Binjwe, Meet Mukhi, Madhoo Shah, Priyanshu Chaterjee, Luke Kenny, Zoya Afroz and Varun Kapoor
Director: Hemant Gaba
Details: Parth Aur Jugnu, Parth forms an unlikely friendship with Jugnu, a magical boy who lives in the haunted forest of his village. Soon the friends find themselves on a mission to protect a magical tree in the forest. Will they succeed?
5. Saas Bahu Aur Flamingo (Web-Series)
Release Date: 5th May 2023 on Disney Plus Hotstar
Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Kriti Sanon, Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala, Rajpal Yadav, Ronit Roy and Sachin Khedekar.
Director: Rohit Dhawan
Details: Bantu is hated by his father Valmiki since he was a toddler. Samara, his boss, shows him affection and love until he discovers that the Jindals are his parents. Bantu decides to seek Jindals love and protect them from threats they facing.
6. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Movie)
Release Date: 5th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, Elizabeth Debicki, Maria Bakalova, and Sylvester Stallone
Director: James Gunn
Details: In the film, the Guardians embark on a mission to protect Rocket (Cooper) from the High Evolutionary (Iwuji).
7. Virupaksha Hindi (Movie)
Release Date: 5th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Sai Dharam Tej, Samyuktha Menon, Sunil, Rajeev Kanakala, Brahmaji, and Ravi Krishna
Director: Karthik Varma Dandu
Details: Mysterious deaths occur in a village due to an unknown person’s occult practices. The whole town is afraid, and the problems continue as they search for the one responsible.
8. IB71 (Movie)
Release Date: 12th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Vidyut Jammwal, Anupam Kher and Vishal Jethwa
Director: Sankalp
Details: 30 agents, 10 days, and 1 top secret mission that was hidden for 50 years. It is a patriotic spy thriller is an untold story based on true events where IB agent Dev is on a top-secret mission to save the nation.
9. Chatrapathi (Movie)
Release Date: 12th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Bellamkonda Sai Sreenivas, Nushrat Bharucha, Bhagyasree and Sharad Kelkar
Director: V. V. Vinayak
Details: Shivaji and his family are uprooted from their community in Sri Lanka and wind up as bonded labourers in Visakhapatnam. The situation worsens when his jealous stepbrother enters his life.
10. Music School (Movie)
Release Date: 12th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Sharman Joshi, Shriya Saran, Shaan,Gracy Goswami, Ozu Barua, Prakash Raj, Benjamin Gilani and Suhasini Mulay
Director: Paparao Biyyala
Details: Music School is about the pressure applied by school systems and parents on children to continue with endless hours of studies, only studies, thinking of making them doctors and engineers, thereby leaving no time for art and leisure activities for the students.
11. Dahaad (Web-Series)
Release Date: 12th May 2023 on Prime Video
Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Varma, Gulshan Devaiah and Sohum Shah
Director: Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi
Details: When a series of women are found dead in public bathrooms under mysterious circumstances, Sub-inspector Anjali Bhaati is tasked with leading the investigation. As the case unravels she begins to suspect that the seemingly clear-cut suicides may be the work of a serial killer on the loose, triggering a riveting game of cat and mouse between a seasoned criminal and an underdog cop.
12. Taj 2 (Web-Series)
Release Date: 12th May 2023 on Zee5
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Dharmendra, Aashim Gulati, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sauraseni Maitra, Shubham Kumar Mehra and Rahul Bose
Director: Vibhu Puri
Details: 15 years after his exile, Salim is on a deadly journey to avenge his lost love. Will his fiery vengeance forge a new empire or turn the Mughal dynasty into ashes? The stakes are higher than ever before!
13. Fast X (Movie)
Release Date: 18th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jason Momoa, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jordana Brewster, John Cena, Jason Statham, Sung Kang, Alan Ritchson, Daniela Melchior, Scott Eastwood, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Brie Larson, and Rita Moreno.
Director: Louis Leterrier
Details: Dominic Toretto must protect his crew and family from Cipher, who now joins forces with Dante Reyes, the son of drug lord Hernan Reyes, seeking revenge for his father’s death during the events of Fast Five (2011).
14. Inspector Avinash (Web-Series)
Release Date: 18th May 2023 on Jio Cinema
Cast: Randeep Hooda, Urvashi Rautela, Soundarya Sharma, Rajneesh Duggal, Amit Sial, Freddy Daruwala, Abhimanyu Singh, Shalin Bhanot, Rahul Mittra and Adhyayan Suman
Director: Neeraj Pathak
Details: The story revolves around the super cop Avinash Mishra of Uttar Pradesh, India. Based on year 1997, the narrative takes us through his struggle of overcoming each hurdle in reaching to the head of the weapon cartrel. Revolving around the crimes of UP, this show compares the state of Uttar Pradesh to Mexico.
15. Kathal (Movie)
Release Date: 19th May 2023 on Netflix
Cast: Sanya Malhotra, Anant V Joshi, Vijay Raaz, Rajpal Yadav, Brijendra Kala and Neha Saraf
Director: Yashowardhan Mishra
Details: A local politician’s prized jackfruit trees have disappeared from his garden. A young policewoman desperately tries to solve this strange case to prove herself worthy of her position.
16. Aazam (Movie)
Release Date: 19th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Jimmy Shergill, Abhimanyu Singh and Indraneil Sengupta
Director: Shravan Tiwari
Details: Set in the underbelly of the Mumbai underworld, the succession battle of mafia don Nawab Khan, who is suffering from blood cancer and has only a few days to live. Who is the Aazam of this battle of defeat and victory?
17. Bandaa (Movie)
Release Date: 23rd May 2023 on Zee5
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Adrija, Surya Mohan Kulshrestha, Nikhil Pandey, Priyanka Setia, Jaihind Kumar and Durga Sharma
Director: Apoorv Singh Karki
Details: An ordinary lawyer is out to fight an extraordinary case! But can he win against a powerful godman accused of assaulting a minor and deliver justice to the victim?
18. City Of Dreams 3 (Web-Series)
Release Date: 26th May 2023 on Hotstar
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Adrija, Surya Mohan Kulshrestha, Nikhil Pandey, Priyanka Setia, Jaihind Kumar and Durga Sharma
Director: Apoorv Singh Karki
Details: An ordinary lawyer is out to fight an extraordinary case! But can he win against a powerful godman accused of assaulting a minor and deliver justice to the victim?
19. Jogira Sara Ra Ra (Movie)
Release Date: 26th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Neha Sharma, Sanjay Mishra and Mahaakshay Chakraborty
Director: Kushan Nandy
Details: Jugaadu Jogi and Phaadu Dimple are here with a story which is straight like a jalebi.
20. Lavaste (Movie)
Release Date: 26th May 2023 in Cinemas
Cast: Omkar Kapoor, Manoj Joshi, Brijendra Kala, Urvashi S Sharma, Shubhangi Latkar and Aditya Verma
Director: Sudeesh Kanaujia
Details: A man who has done B.Tech, gets the job of lifting unclaimed dead bodies in the name of job.A unique tale depicting the untold tragedy of unclaimed dead bodies in our society.
Durgesh Tiwary’s View: In my view Bandaa is the movie to watch in the 2nd half. In web-series I am looking forward for City of Dreams 3. What’s your top picks among all movies and web series. You can share your view in comment section.
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