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Navarasa, The Kissing Booth 3, and More on Netflix India in August
Internationally, Jason Momoa (Aquaman) pursues justice for his wife’s death against big pharma in Sweet Girl on August 20. Joey King is back in rom-com trilogy’s final chapter The Kissing Booth 3 on August 11. John David Washington is on the run in Greece in Beckett, coming August 13. Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) lends his voice and musical talents to the animated Vivo, available August 6. Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy) is the first woman of colour chair at a failing English department in The Chair, out August 20. Diego Luna (Narcos: Mexico) goes behind the camera for satirical dramedy Everything Will Be Fine, also August 20. Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel) tumbles down ‘90s Hollywood’s rabbit hole of sex, revenge and kittens in Brand New Cherry Flavor on August 13. Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) and Adrian Grenier (Entourage) are stuck in Clickbait, unfolding August 25.
From F9 to The Suicide Squad, What to Watch in August
Outside fiction in August, Netflix has a Paris Hilton cooking series — which is exactly like what you would expect. Cooking with Paris fires up August 4 on Netflix. At the very end of the month on August 31, organising-obsessed celebrity Marie Kondo returns with a new series, Sparking Joy, where she will help others and share her organised world too. And then there’s the sports docuseries Untold, with four feature-length episodes devoted to Olympic winner Caitlyn Jenner, world champion boxer Christy Martin, the 2004 Pacers-Pistons brawl, and the mob boss of a hockey team Jimmy Galante. Untold will air over four consecutive Saturdays on Netflix, on August 10, 17, 24, and 31.
In the animated department, The Witcher universe expands with an adult anime prequel film in The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, streaming August 23. For kids, the spin-off animated series Fast & Furious Spy Racers heads to South Pacific for its fifth season on August 13. On the same day, Netflix India will also add Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw — in the same month as F9 coming to Indian cinemas.
Speaking of licensed content, J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek reboot and Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim arrive August 1 on Netflix, alongside Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, Oscar-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai, and the Emmy-winning doc Apollo 11. On Independence Day, Netflix will get all seasons of Downton Abbey (already on Prime Video). Gemini Man with two Will Smiths shoots in August 22. And lastly, there’s more Keeping Up with the Kardashians on August 17.
Netflix India August 2021 releases — the full list
With that, here’s the full list of movies and TV shows coming to Netflix India in August 2021. We’ve marked Netflix Original titles in bold.
August 1
American Outlaws
Apollo 11 (2019)
Asuka High School March!: Season 1
Beetlejuice
Below Deck Mediterranean: multiple seasons
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Chocolat
Constantine
The Dark Tower
The Firm
The Girl in the Bathtub
I missed you: Director’s Cut
Kiss the Girls
Pacific Rim
Perfect Stranger
The Pledge
The Roommate
San Andreas
Serendipity
Say I Do
Star Trek
Time and Tide
August 3
The 2nd
Ije: The Journey
Pray Away
Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord
Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified: Season 1
August 4
‘76
Aftermath
The Art of Self-Defense
Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami: Season 1
Control Z: Season 2
Car Masters: Rust to Riches: Season 3
Cooking With Paris: Season 1
August 5
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
One Day That Changed Asia: Season 1
Titoudao: Inspired by the True Story of a Wayang Star: Season 1
August 6
A Big Little Murder: Season 1
Days of Disaster: Season 1
Hit & Run: Season 1
In Search of The Frog Boys: Season 1
Inside the Children’s ICU: Season 1
Last Madame: Season 1
Navarasa: Volume 1
The Negotiators: Season 1
Quam’s Money
The Swarm
Vivo
Wild City: Forest Life
Wild City: Secret World
August 7
Takizawa Kabuki ZERO 2020 The Movie
August 9
My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy
SHAMAN KING: Season 1
Wet Season
August 10
The Crowned Clown: Season 1
Gabby’s Dollhouse: Season 2
I Need Romance: Season 1
Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang
Untold: Malice at the Palace
August 11
Bake Squad: Season 1
La diosa del asfalto / Asphalt Goddess
The Kissing Booth 3
Misha and the Wolves
August 12
AlRawabi School for Girls: Limited Series
Lokillo: Nothing’s the Same
Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild
August 13
Beckett
Brand New Cherry Flavor: Limited Series
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Fast & Furious Spy Racers: Season 5: South Pacific
Gone for Good: Limited Series
The Kingdom / El Reino: Season 1
Valeria: Season 2
August 15
Double Team
Downton Abbey: all seasons
Only Mine
August 17
Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Season 5
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Season 5
Toot-Toot Cory Carson: Season 5
Untold: Deal with the Devil
August 18
Black Island
The Defeated: Season 1
Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes
Out of my league
The Secret Diary of an Exchange Student
August 20
The Chair: Season 1
Comedy Premium League: Season 1, four episodes
Everything Will Be Fine: Season 1
Korean Cold Noodle Rhapsody, new episode
The Loud House Movie
Man in Love
Sweet Girl
August 22
Gemini Man
August 23
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
August 24
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Oggy Oggy: Season 1
Tayo The Little Bus: Season 4
Titipo Titipo: Season 2
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
August 25
Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed
Clickbait: Season 1
Motel Makeover: Season 1
The Old Ways
Open Your Eyes: Season 1
Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes: Season 1
Really Love
The River Runner
August 26
EDENS ZERO: Season 1
Family Reunion: Part 4
August 27
D.P.: Season 1
He’s All That
I Heart Arlo: Season 1
King of Boys: The Return of the King: Limited Series
Ride on Time: Season 3
SAS: Rise of the Black Swan
Titletown High: Season 1
August 28
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha: Season 1
August 31
Sparking Joy: Season 1
Untold: Crime and Penalties
“At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games,” Haiyan Zhang, GM, Xbox Gaming AI, said in a blog post. “This partnership will bring together: Inworld’s expertise in working with generative AI models for character development, Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions including Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play, and Team Xbox’s strengths in revolutionizing accessible and responsible creator tools for all developers.”
The aforementioned AI design copilot is a toolset that will help game designers turn prompts into scripts and dialogue trees. In contrast, the character runtime will enable dynamically generated plot beats and quests. We’ve already seen heavy AI integration in games by way of procedural generation — a more recent example being the 1000+ planets in Starfield. Not to mention, enemy AI has been around for way longer.
Inworld made headlines in August when it launched a modded story mode for Grand Theft Auto V, Sentient Streets, in which players had to investigate the rise of a bizarre AI-worshipping cult — a segment loaded with characters that spoke in AI-generated dialogue, on the fly. The mod was later taken down by publisher Take-Two, leaving a permanent strike on the creator Bloc’s YouTube channel. As per The Verge, Inworld’s AI technology can also be used for narration in top-down RPGs to warn players about any events awaiting off-screen and respond to questions like we’ve seen in the past year with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Microsoft has also been heavily banking on artificial intelligence, having made a $10 billion (about Rs. 83,254 crore) investment in OpenAI. The company has also integrated AI tools into its popular suite of services and also added an AI copilot to Windows.
Despite being a Microsoft-affiliated AI toolset, it would be interesting to see whether titles using them will be allowed to thrive on other platforms. In July, Valve claimed that it would be cracking down on games that included AI-generated assets if the developer didn’t own the copyright to the piece of art. For the uninitiated, when you insert a prompt to create something in AI, the software simply repurposes existing assets found online and mushes them together — basically stealing from other artists and writers without appropriate commercial licenses. Infringing them would lead to the game not being distributed on Steam, forcing the developers to seek proper licenses for the asset by reaching out to the AI companies involved. It’s unclear how Microsoft’s partnership will play out — as long as AI content is being used as a catalyst to innovate and create something new, it should be fine.
In a post on X shared by BSNL’s Andhra Pradesh (@bsnl_ap_circle) unit, the company confirmed that BSNL users can upgrade their older 2G or 3G SIMs to a 4G SIM for free. Not only will the upgrade be free, but a promotional image shared with the post suggests that users who opt for the upgrade will also receive 4GB of free data that will be valid for three months. It is speculated that BSNL is aiming to boost its upcoming 4G services with this offer. The announcement was first spotted by Telecom Talk.
To access the free data offer and the free upgrade, BSNL users are requested to get in touch with executives at BSNL’s Customer Service Centre, franchisee or retailer stores, or contact one of their Direct Selling Agents (DSA). The promo image also adds in a finer print that the offer is available with certain terms and conditions, but hasn’t detailed any, so far.
Reliance’s Jio recently launched the 4G-supported Bharat B1 feature phone in India. The handset is priced at Rs. 1,299 in India. Alongside 4G connectivity, the phone comes with JioCinema and JioSaavn applications pre-installed.
The Jio Bharat B1 is equipped with the JioPay application, which is said to allow users to make UPI payments. Aiming to increase accessibility, the phone supports 23 languages overall, including multiple regional languages.
Realme, via Weibo, announced the arrival of the Realme GT 5 Pro in China. The display of the handset is confirmed to offer 3000 nits peak brightness. It has also been teased to offer heat dissipation with a surface area of around 10,000mm2. It is confirmed to ship with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The post doesn’t specify the exact launch date of the smartphone, however, given the release of the teasers, the launch could be just around the corner.
The Realme GT 5 Pro has been in the news a lot lately. It is expected to feature a 6.78-inch (1,264×2,780 pixels) AMOLED display and is tipped to come in 8GB, 12GB, and 16GB RAM options along with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB inbuilt storage options.
For optics, the Realme GT 5 Pro is said to have a triple rear camera unit comprising two 50-megapixel sensors and an 8-megapixel shooter at the rear. The camera setup might include a Sony LYTIA LYT808 sensor, an OmniVision OV08D10 secondary sensor, and a Sony IMX890 telephoto sensor. For selfies, there could be a 32-megapixel sensor at the front. It is said to carry a 5,400mAh battery with support for 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging.
The Realme GT 5 Pro is expected to come with upgrades over Realme GT 5. The latter was launched in China in August with a price tag of CNY 2,999 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
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