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This week brings an eclectic blend of stories that cut across genres — from cosmic romance and post-apocalyptic survival to political thrillers, mythological epics, and reality drama. Across Prime Video, Netflix, JioHotstar, and Lionsgate Play, the lineup stretches from intimate character pieces to sprawling global sagas. Param Sundari – October 24 (Prime Video) A breezy, cross-cultural rom-com that meets modern technology halfway. Param (Sidharth Malhotra), an indulgent Delhi rich kid, is challenged by his father to test their new AI-powered matchmaking app by finding his own soulmate. The algorithm leads him to Sundari (Janhvi Kapoor), a spirited Malayali woman managing her family’s vintage guesthouse along Kerala’s backwaters. What begins as a transactional quest for inheritance turns into a genuine connection — until Param’s lie about the app’s involvement, and a suitor from Sundari’s past, threaten to unravel everything. Against lush Kerala scenery and a playful soundtrack, Param Sundari turns digital love into an old-fashioned emotional journey about truth and belonging. Kurukshetra Part 2 – October 24 (Netflix) The second part of this animated mythological series dives into the final chapters of the Mahabharata’s 18-day war. From Day 15 to its cataclysmic end, it captures the moral exhaustion of battle and the fateful duels that define destiny: Abhimanyu’s sacrifice inside the Chakravyuha, Karna vs Arjuna, and the last clashes that seal the Pandavas’ victory and the Kauravas’ annihilation. Beyond its grand visuals, Kurukshetra Part 2 meditates on righteousness, grief, and legacy — showing that every victory in Dharma’s name leaves scars no hero escapes. The Kardashians Season 7 – October 24 (JioHotstar) The reality empire returns with a season steeped in emotion and reinvention. Kim Kardashian revisits her 2016 Paris robbery through tearful courtroom testimony, revealing shocking new threats from someone “extremely close.” Meanwhile, rare on-camera appearances by Rob Kardashian and Caitlyn Jenner shake family dynamics, Kourtney & Travis Barker adjust to touring life with their newborn, and the clan bids farewell to Kris Jenner’s legendary Hidden Hills home. Balancing vulnerability and spectacle, Season 7 blurs the boundary between private healing and public reinvention. Elevation – October 21 (Prime Video) Three years after insect-like Reapers decimated humanity, survivors cling to mountaintops above 8,000 feet. Will (Anthony Mackie), a single father, must descend below the safety line to scavenge oxygen filters for his asthmatic son. Joined by guilt-ridden scientist Nina and daredevil friend Katie (Maddie Hasson), he faces monsters both human and inhuman. Elevation pairs high-altitude survival with tender human stakes — a race through ruin toward fragile hope. Harlan Coben’s Lazarus – October 22 (Prime Video) Forensic psychologist Joel Lazarus returns home after his father’s apparent suicide and stumbles into a maze of old crimes. Strange coincidences reopen the unsolved murder of his sister 25 years ago, binding past grief to present peril. Across six taut episodes, Lazarus threads Coben’s hallmarks — memory, deception, family secrets — into a haunting meditation on guilt and inheritance. Eden – October 24 (Prime Video) In the 1930s, idealists from Europe sail to the Galápagos island of Floreana to found paradise. Instead, ego, desire, and survival instincts corrode their utopia. A German doctor, a modest family, and a flamboyant Baroness with two lovers spiral into jealousy, resource wars, and murder. Eden transforms real history into a psychological wilderness thriller — where the paradise you build becomes the hell you can’t escape. The Apprentice – October 24 (Lionsgate Play) Sebastian Stan embodies a young Donald Trump mentored by ruthless fixer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). Set in 1970s-80s New York, this biographical drama charts the making of a public persona through moral erosion: “Never admit, always attack, always claim victory.” Between shady real-estate deals, tabloid notoriety, and his marriage to Ivana (Maria Bakalova), the film traces how mentorship becomes manipulation — and how power, once tasted, rewrites identity. Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh – October 25 (JioHotstar) A mythological spectacle created with cutting-edge AI technology. This re-telling of the Mahabharata emphasizes emotion and moral complexity as much as grandeur — breathing new life into epic icons from Draupadi’s humiliation to Krishna’s divine counsel. The fusion of artificial intelligence and Indian storytelling ambition marks a milestone in homegrown visual mythmaking. Nobody Wants This Season 2 – October 23 (Netflix) After their season-one romance, Rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) and agnostic host Joanne (Kristen Bell) now face the harder test — staying together. Noah’s refusal to accept a prestigious synagogue post strains family expectations, while Joanne grapples with fitting into his faith-bound world. Smart, funny, and heartfelt, the series turns inter-belief love into a mirror for compromise and conviction. Pitch To Get Rich – October 20 (JioHotstar) Fourteen fashion entrepreneurs, ₹40 crore up for grabs, and an all-star jury mixing Bollywood fame and boardroom grit — Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar, Manish Malhotra, Malaika Arora, and top investors. Contestants pitch ideas, endure critiques, and chase global-brand dreams while championing “Make in India.” Expect drama, design, and ambition stitched together for binge-worthy inspiration. Mob War: Philadelphia vs The Mafia – October 22 (Netflix) This three-part docuseries revisits the brutal 1990s Philly mob war between old-guard boss John Stanfa and flashy upstart Joey Merlino. With wiretaps, surveillance footage, and insider confessions, it captures the street politics of loyalty and betrayal — a grim ballet of bullets and pride. The Monster of Florence – October 22 (Netflix) Between 1968 and 1985, couples were murdered in the hills around Florence with chilling ritual precision. This dramatized investigation revisits Italy’s most infamous unsolved serial killings, re-examining police blunders, media frenzy, and enduring conspiracy theories. A slow-burn descent into obsession and fear beneath Tuscan serenity. Vicious – October 22 (Prime Video) When reclusive artist Polly (Dakota Fanning) accepts a mysterious box from a stranger, she’s thrust into a supernatural trial demanding she sacrifice what she loves, hates, and needs. A single-location psychological horror that bends reality into nightmare logic, Vicious traps both its heroine and the viewer inside escalating dread. The Elixir – October 23 (Netflix) In rural Indonesia, a family’s traditional herbal-tonic business accidentally sparks a zombie outbreak after experimenting with a new potion. Forced to barricade themselves inside their jamu shop, they must reconcile fractured relationships while fending off the undead. Grotesque, fast, and unexpectedly funny, The Elixir delivers cultural satire inside genre chaos. A House of Dynamite – October 24 (Netflix) When an untraceable missile heads toward U.S. soil, the President (Idris Elba) and his top strategist (Rebecca Ferguson) must act under unbearable pressure. Real-time tension, fractured intelligence, and geopolitical brinkmanship collide in this high-stakes thriller where one decision can end the world. Parish – October 24 (Netflix) Adapted from the BBC’s The Driver, the story follows Gray Parish (Giancarlo Esposito), a reformed wheelman dragged back into the criminal circuit after his son’s murder. His one “last job” spirals into a reckoning with vengeance and morality against the sultry backdrop of New Orleans — a city as haunted as its hero. A Week of Extremes This week’s streaming slate mirrors the spectrum of modern storytelling — high-concept romance (Param Sundari), mythic war (Kurukshetra Part 2, Ek Dharmayudh), family spectacle (The Kardashians), and apocalyptic grit (Elevation). Between moral labyrinths (Lazarus, Parish) and genre bursts (The Elixir, Vicious), October’s final week proves that digital screens remain the year’s busiest battlefield for imagination.
