In this post, I am sharing the Confirmed list of movies and web series releasing in May 2025 on OTT platforms and cinemas. While the last month saw a lower number of releases, this month we have very good number of releases in cinemas as well OTT. Please note that release dates may vary as this information is based on announcements made by producers and production companies.
Interestingly, several movies are opting for digital premieres instead of theatrical releases to avoid clashes. For audiences, OTT platforms have become the new cinema halls post-lockdown, offering a variety of movies and web series to enjoy from the comfort of their homes. As the new year kicks off, February 2025 brings a fresh slate of highly anticipated movies and web series across OTT platforms and cinemas.
With so much to look forward to, new month is shaping up to be a thrilling start to the year for movie and web series enthusiasts. Dive into our confirmed list and make sure you don’t miss the most awaited releases of the month.
Here I am sharing entire list of movies and web-series releasing this month on OTT and Cinemas:
1. Raid 2 (Movie)
Release Date: 1st May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Vaani Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla and Supriya Pathak
Director: Raj Kumar Gupta
Details: It focuses on Indian Revenue Service Officer Amay Patnaik who has seized over 4200 crores in his raids’ till then, tracks another white-collar crime. This time, he conducts his 75th raid on the premises of Dada Manohar Bhai.
2. The Bhootnii (Movie)
Release Date: 1st May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Mouni Roy, Sunny Singh, Palak Tiwari and Asif Khan
Director: Sidhaant Sachdev
Details: At St. Vincent College, the Virgin Tree awakens a spirit every Valentine’s Day—drawn by the desire for true love. When Shantanu’s wish stirs her, 27 days of love and horror begin, ending in terror on Holika Dahan. The spirit becomes obsessed with him, haunting anyone who mocks her. Whispers turn to chaos—shadows move, doors creak, and fear grips the campus. As panic spreads, the college calls in ‘Ghostbuster’ Baba. But the entity he faces defies everything he knows about the spirit world.
3. Hit 3 (Movie)
Release Date: 1st May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Nani, Srinidhi Shetty, Adil Pala, Rao Ramesh, Brahmaji and Maganti Srinath
Director: Sailesh Kolanu
Details: Arjun Sarkaar, an SP at the Homicidal Investigation Team (HIT), Visakhapatnam, gets assigned to a high priority case for the HIT in Jammu and Kashmir to catch a group of serial killers responsible for the gruesome murders of several people.
4. Retro (Movie)
Release Date: 1st May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Suriya, Pooja Hegde, Joju George, Jayaram and Karunakaran
Director: Karthik Subbaraj
Details: A gangster, caught between his love for his wife and the shadows of his violent past, attempts to turn over a new leaf. But walking away isn`t as easy as it seems. As buried secrets resurface and enemies close in, his journey toward peace spirals into chaos. Blending raw emotion with high-octane action, this is a story of love, redemption, and the haunting pull of a life once lived.
5. Thunderbolts (Movie)
Release date: 1st May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, David Harbour and Hannah John-Kamen
Director: Jake Schreier
Details: In the film, a group of antiheroes are caught in a deadly trap and forced to work together on a dangerous mission.
6. Costao (Movie)
Release Date: 1st May 2025 on Zee5
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priya Bapat, Kishor Kumar Huli, Gagan Dev Riar and Hussain Dalal
Director: Sejal Shah
Details: Costao Fernandes is a humble customs officer and becomes a legend for his extraordinary strategies to bring smuggling down in Goa. What happens when he ends up killing a popular drug lord in self-defence?
7. Kull (Web-Series)
Release Date: 2nd May 2025 on Jio Hotstar
Cast: Nimrat Kaur, Amol Parashar, Ridhi Dogra, Gaurav Arora, Rohit Tiwari and Rahul Vohra
Director: Sahir Raza
Details: A dysfunctional royal family implodes with the death of their diabolical patriarch. Now, the three surviving Raisingghs battle it out for power and kingship.
8. The Royals (Web-Series)
Release Date: 9th May 2025 on Netflix
Cast: Ishan Khatter, Bhumi Pednekar, Sakshi Tanwar, Zeenat Aman, Nora Fatehi, Vihaan Samat, Kavya Trehan, Milind Soman aur Dino Morea
Director: Priyanka Ghose and Nupur Asthana
Details: When charming Prince Aviraaj meets Sophia, a self-made girl boss, the worlds of royalty and startups collide in a whirlwind of romance and ambition.
9. Gram Chikitsalay (Web-series)
Release Date: 9th May 2025 on Prime Video
Cast: Amol Parashar, Vinay Pathak, Anandeshwar Dwivedi, Akash Makhija, Akansha Ranjan Kapoor and Garima Vikrant Singh
Director: Rahul Pandey
Details: The young, idealistic and brilliant Dr. Prabhat, takes charge of a neglected Primary Health Centre in a North India Village hoping to bring about much needed changes only to realize it is he who will have to change before anything else.
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10. Romeo S3 (Movie)
Release Date: 16th May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Palak Tiwari, Thakur Anoop Singh and Aman Dhaliwal
Director: Guddu Dhanoa
Details: DCP Sangram Singh Shekhawat is on a relentless mission to take down a deadly drug cartel. His path collides with an investigative journalist chasing the same truth. What follows is a storm of action, emotion, and justice.
11. Hai Junoon (Web-Series)
Release Date: 16th May 2025 on Jio Hotstar
Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sumedh Mudgalkar, Siddharth Nigam and Jacqueline Fernandez
Director: Abhishek Sharma
Details: A vibrant series exploring the competitive world of music and dance, where passion collides with ambition, and rising stars navigate rivalries, love, and personal growth in pursuit of their dreams.
12. Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning (Movie)
Release Date: 17th May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Details: Picking up where Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) left off, IMF agent Ethan Hunt continues his mission to stop Gabriel from obtaining the AI program known as “the Entity”.
13. Bhool Chuk Maaf (Movie)
Release Date: 23rd May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Wamiqa Gabbi, Sanjay Mishra, Seema Pahwa, Zakir Hussain, Raghubir Yadav and Ishtiyak Khan
Director: Karan Sharma
Details: Set in Varanasi, the film captures small-town romance. The story revolves around Ranjan, a hopeless romantic who secures a government job to marry his love, Titli. But just before their wedding, fate intervenes, and he finds himself trapped in a time loop.
14. Kesari Veer (Movie)
Release Date: 23rd May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Suniel Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Sooraj Pancholi, & Akanksha Sharma
Director: Prince Dhiman
Details: The movie narrates the tale of Hamirji Gohil, a brave warrior who fought against the Tughlaq Empire to protect the Somnath Temple and the Hindu faith.
15. Kapkapiii (Movie)
Release Date: 23rd May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade and Siddhi Idnani
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
Details: It is a remake of the 2023 Malayalam film Romancham. A clique of friends, seeking for a thrill, use an ouija board to connect a ghost for fun. But they soon realized that their house has become haunted by an advent of a female spirit
16. Narivetta (Movie)
Release Date: 23rd May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Tovino Thomas, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Arya Salim, Cheran, Priyamvada Krishnan and Rini Udayakumar
Director: Anuraj manohar
Details: A global examination of state-sanctioned violence through policing, exploring how power structures meant to protect citizens can transform into systems of control, particularly affecting marginalized communities.
17. Pune Highway (Movie)
Release Date: 23rd May 2025 in cinemas
Cast: Amit Sadh, Jim Sarbh, Anuvab Pal, Manjari Fadnis, Ketaki Narayan, and Sudeep Modak
Director: Bugs Bhargava Krishna
Details: Three friends who have grown up together in the same building in Mumbai are affected, in different ways, by a dead body found 200 kms away in a lake. As they fight for their friendship, they can’t escape the ugly truth racing towards them.
18. Criminal Justice S4 (Web-Series)
Release Date: 29th May 2025 on Jio Hotstar
Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Surveen Chawla, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Mita Vasisht, Asha Negi, Shweta Basu Prasad, Barkha Singh and Khushboo Atre
Director: Rohan Sippy
Details: Veteran lawyer Madhav Mishra defends Raj Nagpal, found holding the murdered body of nurse Roshni Saluja after his daughter’s birthday. As the courtroom battle intensifies, buried truths begin to surface, suggesting not everyone is who they claim to be.
19. Kankhajura (Web-Series)
Release Date: 30th May 2025 on Sony LIV
Cast: Roshan Mathew, Mohit Raina, Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju and Sarah Jane Dias
Director: Chandan Arora
Details: After serving 14 years for a crime from his youth, Ashu returns to reconnect with his brother Max. As they struggle to rebuild trust, Ashu’s dark past and dangerous connections resurface, threatening Max’s life and business. A gripping story of family, redemption, and the shadows that never truly fade.
19. Chidiya (Movie)
Release Date: 30th May 2025 in Cinemas
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Amruta Subhash, Svar Kamble, Ayush Pathak, Inaamulhaq, Brijendra Kala and Hetal Gadha
Director: Mehran Amrohi
Details: Shanu and Bua, two young brothers living in a cramped chawl in Mumbai, discover an old badminton racket while seeking work at a film studio. This discovery sparks a dream that seems far beyond their reach. With their mother’s unwavering support and the quirky neighbors rallying behind them, the boys transform a junkyard into their own badminton court. Their journey, marked by trials and imagination, becomes a tribute to youthful determination and the power of dreams.
Durgesh Tiwary’s View: In my view Mission Impossible 8 & Kesari Veer is the movie to watch in the 1st half. In web-series I am looking forward to Criminal Justice 4. What’s your top picks among all movies and web series. You can share your view in comment section.
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