This week's streaming arrivals are star-studded movies and shows across genres and themes. Kay Kay Menon is back, this time as Gyaneshwar Tripathi, the headmaster of a struggling government school in Delhi, Vikrant Massey stars alongside Vedika Pinto and Mahima Makwana in a series adaptation of a novel and 'New Girl' star Jake Johnson is coming to screens as a washed-up tennis player forced to take on the new and trending sport of pickleball. Here's what to watch on streaming this week:
Hindi
Directed by Himank Gaur, this seven-episode comedy-drama stars Kay Kay Menon as Gyaneshwar Tripathi, the easy-going headmaster of a struggling government school in Delhi. When a government initiative offering an all-expenses-paid trip to Cambridge is announced, the school’s teachers come together to fix the broken system. The show stars Archana Puran Singh, Naveen Kasturia, Prasanna Bisht, Abhimanyu Singh and Deven Bhojani. The series is created and executive produced by Biswapati Sarkar and Sameer Saxena under the Posham Pa Pictures banner and comes to Amazon Prime Video on July 24.
Based on the novel ‘Musafir Café’ by Divya Prakash Dubey, the series is set across Bhopal and Mussoorie and follows three people whose lives intersect over time. Vikrant Massey plays Chander, a software engineer, alongside Vedika Pinto as Sudha and Mahima Makwana as Preeti, the two women he forms connections with at different points in his life. The supporting cast includes Adil Hussain, Rajeev Siddhartha, Loveleen Mishra, Sadiya Siddiqui and Anubha Fatehpuria. It is directed by Ruchir Arun and written by Sharanya Rajgopal, and marks the first production from Massey's banner, Homemade Stories. The series premieres on Netflix on July 24.
English
Directed by Tim Story, this comedy stars Kevin Hart as a 40-year-old marketing executive who crashed a Gen-Z bachelor party after accidentally getting added to their group chat. The film also features Teyana Taylor and SNL stars Marcello Hernández, Kam Patterson, and Ben Marshall. Supporting cast members include Mason Gooding, Zach Cherry, Michael Mando and Mike Epps. The film is written by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider, and produced under Hart's Hartbeat Productions. 72 Hours is available for streaming on Netflix from 24 July.
The Dink is an upcoming sports comedy starring Jake Johnson as Dusty Boyd, a washed-up former tennis pro forced to pick up pickleball after an injury to save the local club. Ben Stiller, Patton Oswalt, Chloe Fineman and Chris Parnell also feature, with cameos from former tennis players Andy Roddick and John McEnroe. The film, directed by Josh Greenbaum and written by Sean Clements, releases on July 24 on Apple TV+
This Big Bang Theory spin-off follows the show’s comic book store owner Stuart Bloom, played by Kevin Sussman, after he accidentally damages a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, triggering a multiverse crisis. Stuart teams up with his girlfriend Denise (Lauren Lapkus), geologist Bert Kibbler (Brian Posehn) and physicist Barry Kripke (John Ross Bowie) to fix the damage as they encounter alternate versions of familiar characters along the way. The ten-episode first season premieres on JioHotstar on July 24, with new episodes releasing weekly.