
If you’re a cinephile, Fridays are more exciting than weekends because we have new OTT releases and theatrical drops to look forward to. This Friday (February 21, 2025), there are many exciting titles to bookmark, such as Saqib Saleem and Saba Azad’s Crime Beat, the animated sci-fi series Pantheon Season 2 and Arjun Kapoor’s Mere Husband Ki Biwi. Scroll down to check out the Friday OTT releases that deliver high-octane entertainment…
1. Crime Beat – ZEE5
Among the Friday OTT releases, Crime Beat is a must-watch for crime thriller enthusiasts. The ZEE5 series — starring Saqib Saleem, Saba Azad, Rahul Bhat, Sai Tamhankar and Adinath Kothare — chronicles a small-time crime journalist’s foray into becoming the best in his field. However, he gets entangled in a messy game of lies, scams and politics with a fugitive gangster, who has returned to Delhi with a vendetta.
2. Pantheon Season 2 – Netflix
The animated sci-fi show Pantheon is back with a second season while the voice cast includes Katie Chang, Paul Dano, Aaron Eckhart, Daniel Dae Kim and Taylor Schilling. For the unversed, the show is centred on two troubled teenagers with a past connection to Uploaded Intelligence, a dangerous app that comes at a high human cost.
3. Babygirl – Theatres
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson dial the sexy up to a hundred in Babygirl. The erotic thriller follows a powerful CEO, who risks her career and family she begins an illicit affair with her much younger intern.
4. Dark Nuns – Theatres
Dark Nuns is a supernatural thriller film revolving around potent nuns who do everything in their power to save a young boy possessed by an evil spirit. Song Hye Kyo and Jeon Yeo Been have collaborated on-screen for the first time in Dark Nuns, which also stars Lee Jin Wook and Moon Woo Jin.
5. Mere Husband Ki Biwi – Theatres
Mere Husband Ki Biwi is a rom-com that revolves around a hilarious love triangle between a young man, his ex-wife who suffers from amnesia and his current fiancée. The Mudassar Aziz directorial stars Arjun Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar and Rakul Preet Singh.
6. Get Set Baby – Theatres
Unni Mukundan plans to continue his hit streak at the box office with his upcoming release Get Set Baby. The comedy film, which also stars Nikhila Vimal, sees Mukundan playing the role of a gynaecologist who undertakes different intriguing cases.
7. Kuch Sapney Apne – Theatres
Kuch Sapney Apne is a slice-of-life movie starring Satvik Bhatia, Arpit Chaudhary, Mona Ambegaonkar and Shishir Sharma. The soul-stirring movie focuses on a queer couple, who work on their relationship amid parental and societal pressures.