Inspector Avinash S2, Hathras, Running Wild With Bear Grylls S9 & More: Don’t Miss This Week’s OTT Hits (May 15-21)

Type: Series

Language: Hindi

Where to Watch: JioHotstar

Among the Hindi web series releasing this week, Inspector Avinash S2 brings back Randeep Hooda as encounter specialist Avinash Mishra. This time, the story turns more personal when Avinash’s son gets linked to a murder case, and the officer finds himself trapped between family, politics, and the system he once served. 

Season 2 explores crime syndicates, illegal weapons, corruption, and political betrayal, drawing inspiration from real incidents in Uttar Pradesh in the late 1990s. 

The season keeps the crime-thriller energy of the first part, but adds more emotional pressure and conspiracy around Avinash’s fight for justice. The cast includes famous names like Randeep Hooda, Urvashi Rautela, Amit Sial, Abhimanyu Singh, Rajneesh Duggal, Shalin Bhanot, and Freddy Daruwala. 

Type: Series

Language: Hindi

Where to Watch: Zee5

Hathras, a serious Hindi docu-series, revisits the 2020 Hathras case through journalists who reported from the ground. Unlike a crime spectacle, the show examines the days after the incident, explores the pressure on the investigation, and reveals how the story spread through newsrooms, public outrage, and official responses. 

It is one of the heavier new Hindi OTT series this week, meant more for viewers who want a real-case watch than a fictional thriller. 

Since this series uses a documentary style, it avoids a regular fictional cast format and relies on real accounts, reportage, and case-based narration. 

Type: Movie

Language: Marathi

Where to Watch: Zee5

Tighee is a Marathi OTT movie arriving this week that focuses on a family drama about three women at different stages of life, each carrying her own questions about love, loneliness, duty, and identity. 

Their lives slowly begin to intersect, and the film moves through quiet emotional revelations rather than loud twists. If you want something softer among the OTT releases this week, this is the more reflective, women-led drama in the lineup. 

The cast includes Bharati Achrekar, Nehha Pendse Bayas, Sonalee Kulkarni, Nipun Dharmadhikari, and Pushkaraj Chirputkar. The film, directed by Jeejivisha Kale, was also selected for the Marathi competition section at the 24th Pune International Film Festival. 

Type: Series

Language: English

Where to Watch: Discovery+

This English adventure web series releasing this week brings Bear Grylls back into the wild with a new group of celebrities. Each episode places a guest in extreme outdoor conditions, where survival tasks become the backdrop for open conversations and personal stories. The season includes glacier crossings, desert terrain, canyon descents, high-risk extractions, and wilderness challenges built around both endurance and vulnerability. 

The cast includes Bear Grylls, along with celebrity guests including Elizabeth Banks, Rhys Darby, Colman Domingo, Tiffany Haddish, Matthew McConaughey, MGK, Michelle Monaghan, and Uma Thurman. 

This is the first new season of the English OTT series since 2023, and the format continues the celebrity-survival setup that made Running Wild with Bear Grylls a familiar adventure title. 

Type: Movie

Language: Telugu

Where to Watch: SunNXT

For viewers looking for a Telugu OTT release this week, Therachaapa brings an action-crime drama set around a fishing town destroyed by a typhoon. The survivors are pushed into a dangerous refuge controlled by violent drug lords, and a careless young fisherman is forced to grow up fast when oppression reaches his people. 

It is one of the more intense Telugu OTT movies in the list, mixing coastal survival, action, and emotional drama. The film is directed by Joel George, and the cast includes Naveenraj Sankarapu, Pooja Suhasini, Sreelu Dasari, Rajeev Kanakala, Jabardast Ashok, and Jagadeesh Prathap Bandari.