Maidaan
Theatres
Releasing: April 10
The biographical sports drama film stars Ajay Devgn, Priyamani and Gajraj Rao. Spanning from 1952 to 1962, Maidaan chronicles the life and times of Syed Abdul Rahim, a football coach who revolutionised the sport in India. Rahim’s determination, leadership and vision propelled him to become an iconic figure in Indian sports history. It captures the challenges, sacrifices and triumphant moments of both Rahim and the Indian football team as they strive to overcome societal obstacles and etch their names on the global stage. That led India to earn two gold medals in the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games while India became Asia’s first ever football team to qualify for the semi-finals of the 1956 Olympics.
The Hijacking of Flight 601
Netflix
Releasing: April 10
Two armed revolutionaries hijack and threaten to blow up Flight 601 unless the Colombian government releases 50 political prisoners and pays them a large cash ransom. Faced with political leaders’ refusal to negotiate, the aggressors make drastic decisions that will jeopardise the hostages’ safety as the plane flies aimlessly. Amid the impending horror, the captain and two brave stewardesses must fight to return the hostages safely and outwit the hijackers. The thriller series is inspired by true events that took place on May 30, 1973—considered the longest aerial hijacking in Latin American history.
Fallout
Amazon Prime Video
Releasing: April 11
The post-apocalyptic drama series is based on one of the greatest video games of all time. The show depicts the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retro-futuristic society and a subsequent resource war. The survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as Vaults, built to preserve humanity in the event of nuclear annihilation. About 219 years later, a young woman leaves a vault, the only life she has ever known, to venture out into the dangerously brutal, hostile, savage and unforgiving Wasteland of a devastated Los Angeles in the post apocalyptic United States.
Franklin
Apple TV+
Releasing: April 12
This is a biographical drama miniseries about the USA’s founding father Benjamin Franklin. Starring and executive produced by Academy, Emmy and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Douglas, Franklin will premiere globally on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes of its eight-episode season on April 12. Based on Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff’s book, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, Franklin explores the story of the greatest gamble of Benjamin Franklin’s career. In December 1776, Franklin is famous for his electrical experiments, but his passion and power are put to the test when he embarks on a secret mission to France.