Summer is here. Earlier this week, temperatures in several parts of India reached a sweltering 45°C (that’s 113°F for our American readers — the proud, the few, we see you!). You know what this means: indoor weekends are here. Set your AC to full blast and make yourself an iced matcha latte or a gin-and-tonic if you consider yourself a self-respecting adult. Call that OOMF you’ve been meaning to call for weeks. You know who I’m talking about. Order in. Make yourself comfortable on the couch, then tune in to your TV or laptop. Here are four films for your cozy indoor weekend plans this summer:

Part campus comedy, part coming-of-age social drama, Tanmaya Shekhar’s ‘Nukkad Naatak’ follows two college students (played by Molshree and Shivang Rajpal) whose reckless act of rebellion gets them expelled from college — unless they can enrol five underprivileged children into school. What begins as a punishment slowly turns into an unexpected education in empathy, class privilege, and responsibility. Rooted in the spirit of nukkad naatak or street theatre and grassroots activism, the film uses humour and youthful chaos to explore how civic consciousness is often rooted in accident instead of ideology. A truly independent film with a lot of heart, this is a breezy but thoughtful watch for peoplee who like stories about unlikely transformation, friendship, and young people stumbling toward maturity. Watch ‘Nukkad Naatak’ on Netflix.

Ravi Udyawar’s ‘Do Deewane Seher Mein’ feels like an homage to the good old days of early-2000s Bollywood romances when even middlebrow mainstream Hindi cinema had the power to make you believe in love — if only for 120 minutes. The film follows young millennials Roshni Shrivastav (Mrunal Thakur) and Shashank Sharma (Siddhant Chaturvedi) set up for an arranged marriage. Set in the pressure chamber that is Mumbai, ‘Do Deewane Seher Mein’ is a sweet — if saccharine — portrait of new adults navigating love and life through the insecurities and societal pressure of modern life. Watch ‘Do Deewane Seher Mein’ on Netflix.

If you prefer to binge on the grim and gritty subaltern noir that has come to define much of original Indian OTT films and shows (Sacred Games, Mirzapur, Paatal Lok) in recent years, Prime Video’s ‘Matka King’ should be at the top of your watchlist this summer. Set in 1960s Bombay, the series is a gritty period crime saga about ambition, class mobility, and the birth of a gambling empire. Vijay Varma (Mirzapur, A Suitable Boy) stars as a cotton trader hungry for legitimacy and respect who creates a new betting game that electrifies the city and opens a world once reserved for the elites. As money and influence grow, so do danger, betrayal, and the machinery of corruption. Directed by Nagraj Manjule, the series blends historical events with underworld drama, capturing a city in transition where fortunes are built overnight and lost just as fast. Watch ‘Matka King’ on Prime Video.

‘Guddu Ki Duniya’ is a distinctly contemporary Indian entry into the cinematic lineage of coming of age films about young men searching for themselves through teenage angst over masculinity, class anxiety, and sexuality. Echoing the emotional volatility of works like ‘Moonlight’, ‘The 400 Blows’, or ‘City of God’ in its attention to youth shaped by social circumstance, the short film follows Guddu (Rugved Nanavare) who believes that respect and adulthood require becoming an “Independent Adult Mard.” Set within a neo-realist urban landscape and told in three chapters, ‘Guddu Ki Duniya’ examines how boys begin to imitate hardened versions of manhood simply to feel accepted. The short film is accompanied by ‘Guddu Ke Gaane’, an original EP that functions as Guddu’s inner soundscape, featuring shauharty, MC Kode, and Aron Nyiro. The music moves through hip-hop, blues-rock, and jazz textures to further complicate this intimate portrait of the modern masculinity crisis. ‘Guddu Ki Duniya’ is streaming on the YouTube channel of director Urban Buddha (Kshitij Singh Rawat) from 26 April.

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