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No plans for the 4th of July weekend? Celebrate with a curated mix of heartfelt stories, edge-of-your-seat thrills, and slice-of-life charm from ZEE5 Global, featuring Hindi, Malayalam and Marathi gems that offer something special for diaspora audiences.

1. Kaalidhar Laapata Category: Film | Language: Hindi | Cast: Abhishek Bachchan and Daivik Bhagela | Director: Madhumita

Abhishek Bachchan leads a soulful journey of memory, family, and rediscovery. When his character disappears after overhearing his family’s plan to abandon, an unlikely friendship with a young boy on the road sets him on a path to reclaim life’s simple joys; biryanis, bike rides, and healing.

2. Detective Sherdil Category: Film | Language: Hindi | Cast: Diljit Dosanjh, Diana Penty, Boman Irani, Ratna Pathak Shah, Banita Sandhu, Sumeet Vyas, Chunky Panday | Director: Ravi Chhabriya

Following Diljit Dosanjh’s quirky detective, this mystery‑comedy unfolds in Budapest as he investigates an Indian‑origin tycoon’s death. With a stellar cast and witty humor,...

Andhar Maya on Zee5 in 7 episodes in Marathi, has a tonally felicitous feel to it. You feel you are in the midst of something ominous, something eerie . But the series never reaches the culmination that it seems to promise initially when an entire clan of property seekers descend after the death of the patriarch in Konkan village.

This is well trodden territory. For it to impress us, there needed to be far more enormity in the content. Director Bhimrao Mude and his writers adhere to familiar terror tropes like that patent someone-is-watching camera angle that is here pushed in anytime there is a scarcity of genuine moodiness, and that is quite frequently.

The well-known Marathi actor Kishore Kadam pretty much holds the show together, although there are way too many closeups of his face expressing an unnecessary grotesquerie His role gets progressively ghoulish until we reach the closing episode where...

Cinephobia Acquires U.S. Rights To ‘Brute 1976’

Exclusive: Cinephobia Releasing has bought U.S. rights to Marcel Walz and Joe Knetter’s Brute 1976 from Canada’s Raven Banner Entertainment. The film, which Walz (That’s a Wrap) directed and Knetter (Twilight of the Dead) wrote, is billed as an homage to 1970s horror classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. Cinephobia plans to debut the film over the summer with a limited theatrical run followed closely by an on-demand and digital release. It takes place in 1976 and follows a woman and her girlfriend whose car breaks down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. At the same time, a group of people in the desert for a photoshoot stumble upon an abandoned town where a family of masked psychopaths reside. ”Brute 1976 is bloody and sexy, with a deranged family...

An idealistic teacher starting in a new school and changing the conventional way of teaching to completely shatter the expectations of parents and teachers about some students in one way or the other has been a popular subject for films. From the 1989 Hollywood film “Dead Poets Society” to the 2018 Bollywood film “Hichki” there are a lot of such instances. A sub-section of this type of films are the films in which the school will be in a remote village where education isn’t given a lot of importance and this new teacher, with their great wisdom and kindness, change the lives of students. “Bardo” is the latest entry into these type of films from the Marathi language.

“Bardo” screened at Mumbai Film Festival

“Bardo” tries to be different from these films by making the new teacher more naive and still trying to cope with her failures while trying to live up to everyone’s expectations.

Murli Manohar Creations forthcoming Marathi film Davpech has been postponed towards either the end of December, 2010 or January 2011. Directed by Sachin Vartak and Bhimrao Mude, Davpech stars Bharat Jadhav, Makrand Anaspure, Lokesh Gupte, Hemangi Kavi, Priyal Patil, Vaibhav Mangle and others. Davpech is the story of a village Phoolgaon and a flower seller called Gulabrao Kaate who is one of the prestigious persons of this village. Phoolgaon is known not only for its flowers but also for a unique game called Punya Theft. Almost all the villages come over to Phoolgaon ...