This week, the beloved teenage franchise Student of the Year comes back as a franchise-turned-web-series, Student of the Year: After Dark — a less glossy and more nail-biting version with Shanaya Kapoor playing a dual role. Aditi Rao Hydari and Pankaj Tripathi will share the screen, and a fascinating dynamic, for the first time in the comedy film Parivarik ManuRanjan, as a man and his full-time house keeper, while Arjun Rampal will play a retired police officer on the hunt for a missing sum of money.
On the English front, Jessica Chastain stars an ex-country musician in search of her missing niece, while Anthony Mackie leads a crime thriller series as an FBI agent.
Here's what to watch on OTT this week:
Hindi
Student of the Year: After Dark
Student of the Year: After Dark trades the glamour of the 2012 teen romance Student of the Year for a high-stakes thriller. In the web-series, Shanaya Kapoor takes on a dual role as twin sisters Aayesha and Aditi Malik.
The series centers on a biting mystery — the death of Aayesha Malik, whose body is found drowned and frozen inside a lake. This sets Aditi on a hunt to reveal the truth, driving her to St. Teresa’s where she questions everyone her sister was acquainted with.
Produced by Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla and Apoorva Mehta, the web series will premiere on JioHotstar on November 13.
Parivarik ManuRanjan
Directed by Varun V. Sharma, the comedy film sees actors Aditi Rao Hydari and Pankaj Tripathi share the screen for the first time together, playing the role of a man and his full-time house help.
The film, that sits at the intersection of family drama and romance, centers on the budding relationship between Ranjan Dubey (Tripathi) and Helen (Hydari) and the challenges they face together when they grow closer and truths are revealed after the police arrives at Ranjan Dubey's house to inquire about a woman named Manu Joshi, who doesn't live there. This drives Helen into panic as the locals suspect her to be a thief.
Produced by Vinod Bhanushali, Kamlesh Bhanishali, Alicia Zafar and Himanshu Kishan Mehta, with Ali Abbas Zafar as the creative producer, the film will release on Sony LIV on November 13.
Blind Game
Starring Arjun Rampal as a retired police officer named Sikander, the crime thriller revolves around his mission to uncover the mystery behind a large sum of missing cash, while finding himself entangled in an intense web of lies, crime and unforeseeable twists. Starring Rampal and Priyamani in lead roles, the Manali-set film also stars an ensemble cast, including Rohit Chandel, Nakul Roshan Sahdev, Shayank Shukla, Akash Makhija, Noyrika Bhatheja, Chaitanya Jetly, Mahesh Pillai, Anjali Sharma, and more.
Directed by Sangeeth Sivan, Blind Game is slated for a November 11 release on ZEE5.
English
Heartland
Written and directed by Shana Feste, Heartland stars Jessica Chastain as former country musician Misty Jones, who has lived in isolation for almost two decades. When she returns to Nashville to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of her 22-year-old niece, Charlie Hearth (Carter Faith), the case quickly turns into a murder inquiry, exposing the bitter truth of the music industry that pushed her to confront the reality of her own troubled past.
Also starring John Hawkes, Garrett Hedlund, Jennifer Nettles and Ross Lynch, the film will release on Netflix on November 13.
12 12 12
The 8-episode crime thriller series 12 12 12 stars Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan in lead roles. While Mackie plays a former FBI agent named Jack Strickland, Dornan plays an American criminal and the mastermind behind a massive robbery, Paul Galvin, who Jack is after. The chase spans across Europe and centers on a gutsy bank robbery in Zurich.
Created by Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble, the series will premiere on Apple TV on November 13 with the first two episodes. The remaining episodes will drop one after the other each week till December 25, 2026.