Torbaaz, Mank, Bhaag Beanie Bhaag, and More on Netflix in December
Netflix has announced four titles from India so far for December. Bombay Rose — slated for December 4 — is set to be Netflix’s first animated Indian movie, arriving more than a year after it premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. On the same day, there’s also Bhaag Beanie Bhaag, in which Swara Bhasker confronts disapproving parents and a tough crowd as she attempts to become a stand-up comedian. It sounds like India’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Sanjay Dutt will use cricket to stop kids from terrorism in Torbaaz (not a Netflix Original) available December 11. And finally, Vir Das’ newest (lockdown) special — which premiered on his website in August — arrives December 16 on Netflix.
From Tenet to Durgamati, What to Watch in December
Internationally, we’ve Chadwick Boseman’s final posthumous role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — opposite Viola Davis and set in 1920s Chicago — out December 18 on Netflix. Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, and Kerry Washington are going to prom, I mean The Prom, December 11. From Shondaland we’ve the newest soapy Bridgerton, whose trailer gives the vibe of Gossip Girl meets Downton Abbey. Bridgerton season 1 premieres at Christmas on Netflix.
George Clooney returns to movies after four years for The Midnight Sky, which is like Gravity meets The Revenant, taking off December 23. Gone Girl director David Fincher does the same, but after six years, with Mank, a portrait of the Citizen Kane writer, played by Gary Oldman and scrolling in December 4. On the same day, we will also be treated to Big Mouth season 4, wherein a new Anxiety Monster joins the Hormone Monsters.
For kids, Netflix will offer a new interactive title on December 8. It’s called Spirit Riding Free: Ride Along Adventure, and it’s set in the same world as the series Spirit Riding Free, except you get to choose your own adventure. You’ll need to help Lucky and her friends as they try to save Maricela’s beloved mare from greedy horse thieves.
Outside of the Netflix originals department, there are a few big titles. The Walking Dead season 10 is available at the start of the final month of 2020 on Netflix India. If you couldn’t be bothered watching it (weekly) on Disney+ Hotstar, here you go. The second-best DC movie, Shazam!, bolts in a couple of days later on December 3. That will be followed by Archer season 11, the adult animated Bond-inspired comedy, on December 4. And you can see Tom Cruise run and be trained by Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow, looping into Netflix India on December 14. Lastly, Godzilla — the 2014 variant — shows up on the same day too.
