The films Dhamaka, The Power of the Dog and Aranyak, which are being distributed by the streaming giant Netflix, will be screened at the 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which got underway today in Goa.
Directed by Ram Madhvani, Dhamaka stars Kartik Aaryan, Amruta Subhash and Mrunal Thakur. The film is centred on news anchor Arjun Pathak (Kartik) who gets demoted to a radio jockey due to a controversy. One day during a mundane radio show, he gets a call from an unknown person who threatens to blow up a bridge if his demands aren’t met. Arjun makes use of the opportunity to get back his previous job.
Dhamaka, which was released on Netflix yesterday, will be screened at noon on 21 November.
The Power of the Dog is a Hollywood movie written and directed by Jane Campion. It’s adapted from the novel of the same name by author Thomas Savage and it stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Genevieve Lemon, Keith Carradine and Frances Conroy. The film won the Silver Lion for Best Direction at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.
It will be screened at the festival on 24 November at 8.15 pm and streamed on the OTT platform from 1 December 2021.
Aranyak is a crime series that will be released on Netflix soon. Produced by Roy Kapur Films and Ramesh Sippy Entertainment, the show has been directed by Vinay Waikul. It stars Raveena Tandon, Parambrata Chatterjee, Ashutosh Rana, Zakir Hussain and Megna Malik.
A note from the streaming platform read, “After a foreign teenage tourist disappears in the misty town, a harried local cop Kasturi must join hands with her city-bred replacement Angad, on a big-ticket case that digs up skeletons and revives a forgotten Himalayan myth of a bloodthirsty, serial killing entity in the forest.”
Aranyak will be premiered at IFFI on 26 November at 4 pm.