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OTT Releases This Weekend: Manav Kaul's 'Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper' To 'Nagendran’s Honeymoons' | Web Series News

New Delhi: The OTT platforms are set to offer binge-worthy titles this week, including the desi gangster series ‘Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper’, the english crime comedy ‘Kamthaan’, and the Malayalam comedy web series ‘Nagendran’s Honeymoons’. Here is a list of seven titles that have caught the attention of IANS this week: ‘Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper’ Starring Manav Kaul in the titular role,…

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Tamil OTT releases this week: New movies to watch this weekend; Kanguva, Amaran, Sir and more

Tamil OTT releases this week: A number of new movies and web series will be available on OTT this weekend. Let’s have a look at the ones that are available to watch online. Amaran Plot: This is the real-life story of Major Mukund Varadarajan, an Indian Army officer from the Rajput Regiment. He was posthumously honoured with the Ashok Chakra for his bravery during a counterterrorism mission while…

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So, I saw this in a group that someone shared an article that was made in 2021, from Daily Express (not surprising), but it was speaking about Barbra Valentin.

Which this is what the person wrote about (sorry if it's long but reading it infuriates me):

Freddie Mercury's other woman after Mary 'They were in love, she was even wilder than him'

FREDDIE MERCURY loved Mary Austin his whole life. Even though he was a gay man, he also had one more passionate and intense relationship with outrageous actress Barbara in the mid-1980s, just before he met Jim Hutton. They even shared a bed and Freddie immortalised her in Queen's It's A Hard Life video.

Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin's break up discussed by friends

It's A Hard Life remains most famous for its outrageously OTT video, but Freddie's bandmate Brian May believes it is also one of his friend's most beautiful compositions. There is a moment when the Queen frontman sings the iconic and heartfelt line, "Two lovers together, to love and live forever in each other’s hearts." In the video, he is looking at the voluptuous and glamorous woman leaning over the balcony above him. This was Barbara Valentin, who shared two extraordinary years with Freddie in Munich. She remained close to him until the very end and was one of the few invited to his last ever birthday party.

This weekend marks the release of “It's A Hard Life” in 1984. At the time, Freddie was already living in Munich. He had discovered the German city in 1979 when the band recorded the album The Game at the famous Musicland studios.

Freddie's fame meant he increasingly struggled to find privacy in the UK at the same time as he had begun to explore his sexuality. Munich's thriving gay scene offered him freedom and opportunity.

From 1983-1985 the star made Munich his home and even bought a flat with devoted new friend Barbara.

Busty blonde bombshell Barbara was notorious in Germany as the provocative star of saucy films. Freddie loved her outrageous character and his friends believed he had met his match.

His PA and close friend Peter Freestone said: “They had the most intense, loving relationship. I know one hundred percent they shared a bed on numerous occasions."

Another friend, West End star Peter Straker, said: "I was told he just met this woman who was larger than life. Barbara was very outrageous. She was the queen of nudity.”

Royal Ballet star Wayne Sleep added: "Freddie was with a woman. So I thought.’There you go. He’s not predictable at all, is he, this boy?.’"

Another friend said: “It was almost like he enjoyed being with someone who had a wilder reputation than him.

Many years later, Barbara’s daughter Minki Reichardt said: “I know they were in love. I know that my mother was in love with him because she said so.

"I think their relationship was very close and very intense. They really liked the conflict. They were talking, shouting, arguing, and then they were in their arms again, it was always very lively. I think Freddie was the love of her life."

Barbara's German friend Elisabeth Volkmann went even further: “Freddie loved Barbara. Barbara loved him. And it was a big love between both. If he wouldn’t be homosexual, maybe they married “.

Except, of course, Freddie was homosexual. While Wayne Sleep believed Freddie had slept with Barbara. He certainly spent nights with her at her apartment on Stollberg Strasse. Peter Freestone remains a little more coy on the subject.

He added: "I wasn’t sitting in the room. I can’t tell you yes or no if sex happened. If it had, Freddie could not have been quiet about it."

In fact, for most of those two years in Munich, Freddie was also in a relationship with local restauranteur Winnie Kirschberger, despite the fact that neither spoke the other’s language.

Whatever her feelings for Freddie, Barbara was under no illusion about his sexuality. Like Mary before her, Barbara loved and supported the star and, in this case, provided even more vital and personal help to the men’s relationship.

Freestone said: "it was sometimes comical to watch the arguments happening... Both Freddie and Winnie would be screaming at Barbara who had to do her best to try to sort out the jumbled emotions."

It was an intense period in Freddie's life but the star was beginning to feel homesick and Mary had finally completed all the renovations to his new London house, One Garden Lodge, in Kensington.

The tumultuous relationship with Winnie was fizzling out and a new man from London, Jim Hutton, was on the scene. Freddie never actually moved into the flat he bought with Barbara and returned to the UK. Although he split up with Winnie, Freddie remained close to Barbara for the rest of his life and she flew over to see him one last time in 1990.

In September 1990, Freddie threw his last ever birthday bash, a very smart formal dinner. The following year he would be far too ill.

His close friend Dave Clarke, who was the man by his side when he died, recalled a very intimate night, filled with those Freddie loved most, including Barbara, who sat either side of him with Mary.

Clarke said: "On his last birthday, he just invited 30 of his closest friends and there were 30 different courses, done by his personal chef, Joe Fanelli, and 30 different types of wine to go with each course."

Freddie died the following November. Barbara herself passed away from a stroke on February 22, 2002.

By STEFAN KYRIAZIS.

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Just like Mary, this is making Barbra look like a saint when she wasn't either. She was weirdly possessive of Freddie. She wanted to rekindle the spotlight she had that was dimming out and she used Freddie.

Wayne Sleep, believing that both Freddie and Barbra slept together, reinforces that Freddie didn’t care about the consequences of his illness because he cared more about sex than people’s welfare, and was happy to risk spreading AIDS onto someone for the sake of a quick fix. Which we all know that's is not true. Freddie cared about others, especially the ones that betrayed and hurt him. While Freddie and Barbra were close they were not intimate with each other or screwed around.

Barbra was NOT a friend towards Freddie she made lies after lies about Freddie. Leaking stories to the German press that she and Freddie we're lovers and secretly engaged, claimed that Freddie was "abusive and pushed her head in a sink making her manager trying to get Freddie off of her", said he was pretending to be gay for clout and intentionally spreading AIDS to whoever he slept with.

Which Freddie learned about what she did and cut off the friendship with her. It's reasons why Brian absolutely despised her.

I'm surprised here it didn't talk about Freddie's funeral, by saying Barbra attended the funeral, while she wasn't. She was completely banned from attending by Jim and Mary after what she did to Freddie.

I mean, it’s the same bullshit we’ve seen for the past 30 years. “Oh yeah he was gay BUT he was in love with a woman” is not how it works, everyone knows that’s not how it works, but homophobes are somewhat more comfortable with Freddie fucking men if they think it was only ever sex with them and that his heart always belonged to women. Of course, the article intentionally leaves out quotes where Freddie’s friends, including Phoebe, confirmed that they never had sex. As you said, it also excludes that Barbara lied about Freddie and their relationship while he was alive, prompting him to distance himself from her, and she only doubled down once he was dead because she was a freak who used his name for clout and couldn’t cope with the fact that he’d never return her feelings.

She definitely wasn’t a real friend to him. Real friends don’t tell awful lies to the press like that, and they aren’t possessive, either. It seems like she was both possessive and pretty manipulative of Freddie, but people are fine with all of that as long as they could pretend Freddie felt romance for women to satisfy their homophobic butthurt feelings. Brian hates her and Roger said she was a bad influence on Freddie—there is no reason to defend this woman and repeat her lies.

And of course the article mentions Mary, too. There’s quite the overlap between Mary stans and Barbara defenders, because both wish Freddie wasn’t as gay as he was. It’s pathetic that articles like this are still published in the 2020s.

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Weekend Top Ten #579

Top Ten Lonely Island Songs

I’ve always been a fan of a good comedy song. Generally speaking I’ve always been out of touch with the musical zeitgeist; never knew what was supposed to be cool or uncool, and even when I did like a song chances are I didn’t know who sang it – or if I did, I didn’t know when or what album or whatever else they might have sung. However, if I heard a funny song, that would stick in my mind; instead of washing over me or just being interesting, it’d lodge in my brain on repeat and quite often be the gateway to becoming a big fan of the comedy artist in question.

Which brings us to The Lonely Island.

Like most people familiar with the band, I first discovered them through Saturday Night Live. Although we can’t really watch it over here in the UK, so many of their skits and songs that featured in the show became YouTube sensations back in the neolithic days of that all-conquering video smorgasbord. When I was at CITV, we’d regularly share funny videos around the office, and there are a couple here in this list that were office staples (not those kinds of office staples). And this is how I got to know who Andy Samberg is (alongside clips of his stoner-bro impression of Mark Zuckerberg), so that his appearances in movies became something I looked forward to, all the way up till Brooklyn Nine-Nine, one of my favourite sitcoms of all time.

So as we shared their funny songs with each other instead of writing continuity links for Pocoyo or logging clips of My Goldfish is Evil, I discovered more of their back catalogue, and my interest grew. But I’d say it exploded with the release of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a hilarious film that boasts some of the bands greatest songs. That’s when I really started to think about just how many cool songs these guys had made, how funny they were, and how smart and complex they were in the way they parodied different musical genres or specific songs. In a manner similar to Weird Al, as the band has gone on they’ve tackled a variety of subjects with great aplomb, to the point where some of their parodies actually work as “for-real” songs – just, y’know with jokes. And probably this is most evident in the Popstar soundtrack; maybe it’s all that palling around with Justin Timberlake, but the Lonely Island fellas are very good at doing a boyband.

Anyway. I like them! And they’re good at making films too – right up to last year’s Chip ‘n’ Dale. And I think their sensibilities carry over so much from their music to their comedy to their movies, even in things like Palm Springs, Nine-Nine, and the animated movies they’ve been a part of (more on which a bit later…). So let’s don our turtlenecks, cut a hole in a box, and get our arms T-Rexing, as we celebrate the best ever Lonely Island songs as decided by me.

Spring Break Anthem (2013): like most of their songs that I love, it starts by just being funny; the OTT celebration of riotous and disturbing spring break behaviour is, well, very funny, made moreso by the music video that seems to rope in an entire break’s worth of teenagers to contribute. However it’s the juxtaposition of the ludicrous, misogynistic alpha-male macho posturing against the placid and romantic scenes of same-sex marriage that flips it up into art. It's like there’s a commentary being made about how the worst kinds of discriminatory excess can hide hidden truths about the person being offensive; here, it makes the “hetero” activities seem like extravagant gestures coming from a place of denial or even self-loathing. The tender scenes of the Lonely Island trio planning their weddings – with celebrity grooms including Ed Norton, for Pete’s sake – are superbly done. The lyrics are fantastic: “two kings walking hand in hand”. Marry a man.

Finest Girl (2016): coming from the soundtrack to Popstar, this sees Samberg in character as Conner4real, singing a romantic pop song about the finest girl he ever met in his whole life, who turned out to be a freak when she started talking. And then it just gets weird. There’s no two ways about it, it’s a surreal one, comparing – well – the act of love-making to the execution of a terrorist. There’s a pleasing comic sense of schadenfreude and celebration with the chorus’ repeated refrains of (ahem) “Fuck Bin Laden”, but it’s the other lyrics – using the imagery of covert ops to describe sex – that are most funny, especially the lines “she said ‘invade my cave with your special unit’/I said he wasn’t in a cave but there was no stopping”. Look, it’s crude and it’s silly but it’s just weird and daft and genius too.

Natalie’s Rap (2006) and Natalie’s Rap 2.0 (2018): Natalie’s Rap might have been my intro to The Lonely Island. Like a lot of comedy songs, it really hangs on one simple but humorous conceit: in this case that seemingly straight-laced actor Natalie Portman – all serious roles, humanitarian causes, and prestigious universities – was in fact a sex-crazed drug addict spouting foul-mouthed angry hip-hop. And it’s a conceit so funny it worked twice. A large part – basically, like, all the parts – of its success is Portman’s full-bodied commitment to the role, tossing off grotesque obscenities and – in the videos – just throwing stuff around. And, of course, the lyrics themselves are really funny; there’s a purity to the first video (I just couldn’t separate them) but I think the wordplay is funnier second time round, with more specific references to things like Black Swan and Portman’s marriage, as well as an absolutely inspired and disturbing Star Wars sequence.

Like a Boss (2009): another one that rose high for me when I worked at CITV, and so was an early introduction into the band and their wider oeuvre. And the appeal of this one is very simple: the heavy refrain (“Like a boss”) is funny in and of itself, but then the lyrics become increasingly surreal to the point of outright derangement, all of this apparently taking place within the confines of some kind of job appraisal. But the randomness of some of the lyrics – “find a giant fish/fuck its brains out” – is to be applauded; it’s just a really silly, funny little song. And apparently it’s a parody? I dunno. But I guess that would make the Bosch ad campaign a little more understandable.

Jack Sparrow (2011): once more we have a song that benefits from a humorous juxtaposition, as Michael Bolton provides smooth accompaniment to a crude hip hop track about picking up girls. But, like quite a few of their songs, it goes super-surreal as Bolton just croons a bunch of film references. The call-and-response nature of the lyrics – “okay that was kinda weird but we’re back in the club” – provides a lot of laughs, but it’s Bolton’s very game insertion into typical Island craziness that excels, whether it’s dressing up as Erin Brockovich or singing crude lyrics from Scarface.

Dick in a Box (2006): in a way the song that seemed to start it all, an SNL skit – the first to co-star Timberlake – that’s a mid-noughties pop ballad about love and romance, all centred knobs in parcels. The obvious comedy is derived from presenting such a thing as a sweet romantic gesture, but the song – and video – gives so much more. Timberlake is incredibly game – as he is in all his contributions with Lonely Island, including sweeping the floors in Jizz in My Pants – and the scenes of him and Samberg dancing with Christmas presents strapped to their nethers is a comic joy. It builds so well, climaxing in all the places you can experience a box/penis interface (“over at your parents’ house”, “midday at the grocery store”) but what I think everyone who hears it loves the most is the instructions: “One: cut a hole in a box”.

Diaper Money (2013): contrasting the rough hip hop braggadocio style with something that seems culturally at the other end of the spectrum is a comic stock in trade – here the guys are angrily rapping, boasting about their success, but the things they extol are rather mundane. However, what floats my boat, is it’s a particularly middle-class, early-middle-age kind of boastfulness, about marriage and fatherhood. And, really, the very concept of “diaper money” is quite funny to me.

Jizz in My Pants (2008): most of the Island songs are some flavour of hip hop, R&B, or pop, but here they spoof an entire other genre. Really, this is their take on the Pet Shop Boys, and it’s really well done; fast staccato delivery, urban imagery, and a good fist of their accents to boot. And then, yes, there’s the song’s subject matter and lyrics, the rapid-fire wordplay leading up to a series of hilarious climaxes. The middle eight, running through a series of insane scenarios that produce the titular effect, is a comic gem; “When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense…” The only real negative I can think of is that as a PSB spoof it’s not quite as good as Inner City Pressure.

Motherlover (2009): another of a trilogy of videos featuring Samberg and Timberlake as a weird early-noughties pop duo, I love the call and response lyrics here as they discuss their odd little plan, so fabulously icky and uncomfortable as they sing frankly about their mums and the “switcheroo”. It’s creepy and demented – “I’m pushing that lady where you came out as a baby” – and it gets worse as the song goes on. Worth highlighting the supremely game Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson as the mothers who, er, get loved.

Equal Rights (2016): another terrific turn by Conner4real, duetting with Pink in a song about homophobia and oppression and, well, equal rights. It’s a great parody of incurious celebrities latching on to progressive topics in a cynical manner, exemplified here in Conner’s frequent assertions that despite singing about gay rights he’s “not gay”; a thread that grows until it takes over the entire song in a list of supposedly macho and heterosexual things (“hot wings!”). And hey, if girls wanna have sex with him just cause he said this, so be it!

So there’s one song that could have been on this list I guess – Everything is Awesome. But they only co-wrote and appear on the track, so I’ve decided it – and the other Lego Movie songs they contributed to – don’t really count as fully-fledged Lonely Island numbers. But it’d be up there! For reals!

Also, if I’m doing bonus stuff, I really love their “Oscar song demo” that was scrapped by the Academy.

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Free Telugu movies to watch on aha

Everyone likes watching movies, and nowadays, it has become easy to watch your favourite movies based on your requirement. With the development of internet facilities as well as various online platforms, it has become an easy task to download movies or watches them online. Most of all, the latest movies are now available online; thus, you do not need to wait until it is available on TV. Watching movies online through streaming platforms has made everything easy for people so that they can watch it based on their convenience.

Most people only watch free movies online because they are not ready to spend money on them for several reasons. Even though you can find many streaming services for watching free Telugu movies, you may not find any good or hit movies in them. Thus, there comes the need to choose the best service. aha is one of the best OTT platforms, which allows you to watch all the latest South Indian Movies 2022 (mainly Telugu and Tamil movies). It is an online streaming service where you can watch movies for free and with a paid subscription.

Why watch movies online for free?

Watching movies online for free is preferred by the majority of people as they can save some amount of money. A subscription to a streaming service or paying money to watch a particular movie will not be a good choice for some people who do not spend much time watching movies or are not interested in them. Such people usually watch fewer movies during weekends or any other time. Thus, they don't have to spend their money on subscriptions for watching Telugu movies with streaming platforms. On the other hand, few people like watching movies and are always looking for places to watch them for free. aha is a good choice in both cases, as they can find a list of super-hit Telugu movies that are free to watch.

Free Telugu movies streaming on aha

In aha, you can find many Telugu movies you can watch for free based on your choice. Some famous Telugu movies streaming for free on aha are Magadheera, 100 Days of Love, Paraguay, etc. Apart from these Telugu movies, you can also find other dubbed Telugu movies like Khakee, Utthama Villain, Thuppaki, etc. (which are some of the famous South Indian films of other languages). The only thing you have to do to watch these movies is visit aha and look for the free movies section.

Watch unlimited Telugu movies on aha with and without a subscription

If you are looking for free movies online, you can easily find them in aha. But to watch all the latest Telugu movies, you must get an aha subscription. With the subscription, you can watch many latest OTT-released Telugu movies in aha, along with many other famous Telugu TV shows, web series, Kids' shows, news, etc. Thus, by taking a subscription in aha, you can get access to unlimited video content. You can use an aha subscription on 5 devices, allowing you to watch your favourite show on your smartphone while your siblings or parents can watch theirs on another device.

To watch free Telugu movies or the latest Telugu movies (via subscription), visit aha.

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OTT releases to watch this week: The Morning Show, Jaane Jaan and more https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/art-and-culture/ott-releases-morning-show-jaane-jaan-111695325587776.html

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This week you will get the fun of romance along with crime-thriller on OTT, these 4 web series will double the fun of the weekend.

OTT This Week: Many exciting web series are going to be released this weekend. The list includes shows like Thukra Ke Mera Pyaar, Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen Season 2, Campus Beats Season 4.

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Best New OTT Releases to Watch This Festive Weekend: Top Picks

Top Festive Weekend Picks on OTT: Latest Movies and Web Series Releases

With the festive season upon us, it’s the perfect time to relax and enjoy some quality content with friends and family. This weekend, the OTT world has plenty to offer across various genres, from action-packed adventures and emotional thrillers to fantasy epics and mythological tales. Here’s a curated list of top movies and web series premiering this weekend on different streaming platforms to add to your festive watchlist.

Festive Weekend OTT Releases

This weekend’s lineup has something for everyone: intense thrillers, family dramas, and action-fantasy journeys. Let’s explore these new OTT releases in detail:

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Telugu OTT Releases This Week: A Look at the New Movies and Web Series Available to Watch Online

This weekend brings a host of exciting new Telugu movies and web series to OTT platforms, giving fans plenty of fresh content to enjoy. From action-packed thrillers to heartwarming dramas and quirky comedies, there’s something for every taste. Let’s explore the most anticipated Telugu OTT releases this week. 1. Ajayante Randam Moshanam (ARM) Release Date: November 8 Platform: Disney+…

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Top OTT Releases This Week: From Thrilling Mysteries to Star-Studded Action, Your Weekend Watchlist Just Got Better

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New OTT Releases to Watch This Weekend: 20 Exciting Movies and Shows Across Platforms

Stree 2 – Amazon Prime Video After a successful run at the box office, Stree 2, starring Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao, is now available for streaming on rent. The horror-comedy follows Vicky and his friends as they take on a new headless evil entity named Sarkate, with the help of Stree. Cast includes Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee, and Aparshakti Khurana. The Greatest of All Time…

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Telugu OTT releases this week: New movies, web-series to watch this weekend; Matka, Harikatha, 7/G and more

Telugu OTT releases this week: A number of new movies and web series will be available on OTT this weekend. Let’s have a look at the ones that are available to watch online. Matka Plot: Matka follows the journey of Vasu, a man who rises from poverty to build a gambling empire in India, sparking a clash with the government. Inspired by real events, the story delves into love, moral dilemmas, and…

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Top OTT releases this week on Netflix, Prime Video, JioCinema, and more: CTRL, Manvat Murders, and More.

Several OTT services, including Netflix, Disney+, Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, JioCinema, and others, will release new web series and films this week. Here are the top options for drama, comedy, action, horror, and more genres to see this weekend. Ctrl, Netflix The film investigates the darker aspects of social media and artificial intelligence. The tale revolves around Nella and Joe, a social…

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OTT Releases This Week: Taaza Khabar Season 2, Love Sitara, and More | Daily Reports Online

We are almost halfway through the week, and it’s time to update our watchlists for the upcoming weekend! Streaming platforms have announced the major releases this week, with a few surprise announcements slated for later. On the home front, the spotlight is on Bhuvan Bam’s Taaza Khabar Season 2 (Disney+ Hotstar), Shobhita Dhulipala’s Love, Sitara (Zee5), and Arjun Srivastava’s Honeymoon…

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*Here's why Divya Khossla's Savi is the perfect film for you to watch this weekend*

After its successful run at the theatres and also the OTT space, Divya Khossla's Savi is all set for its world premiere on Saturday. As the film premiere on TV on a satellite channel, what hets bigger is that it will reach every household in every part of the world.

What makes the film around jail break is a must watch for the message that the film carries. Savi's story is deeply rooted with traditional beliefs, yet the film has quite a modern approach.

The story revolves around a small family living in their happy world until one fateful day when Savi's husband gets wrongly framed for murder. While she tries hard to prove him innocent, after no resolution, Savi decides to get him escaped from jail. What follows is the story of a simple housewife emerging into a stronger resilient force to safeguard her family.

Savi's story is inspired by the legend of Sati Savitri, who won her husband's life back from Yamraj. Even though in this Abhinay Deo directorial Savi's actions are wrong, her intent at all times is correct. In fact, Divya's performance is so impactful that you won't know when you start rooting for the character.

Savi had a phenomenal run at the box office. The film emerged to be widely successful. Even on OTT, Savi ruled the trending charts for weeks. Other than Divya, the thriller also stars Harshvardhan Rane and Anil Kapoor in important roles. The film directed by Abhinay Deo was produced by Mukesh Bhatt, Bhushan Kumar, and Krishan Kumar under the banners of T-Series and Vishesh Films. Savi had its theatrical release on 31st May.