New OTT Releases This Week (May 4 To May 10): Lukkhe To Citadel Season 2; What To Watch Online

Streaming platforms in India line up a crowded slate this week, with big-name stars, bestselling book adaptations and crime sagas arriving together. New seasons of global hits such as Citadel sit beside fresh originals like Dacoit and Lukkhe, while international dramas stretch from Thai action-romance to Nordic noir, Italian comedy and Japanese samurai tales.

Across Netflix, Prime Video, JioHotstar and other services, the latest OTT releases cover spy thrillers, true-crime docuseries, heartfelt musicals and intense revenge stories. Viewers can pick from English, Indian and international titles, many adapted from acclaimed novels or real events, with several projects led by Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winners.

Latest OTT releases: Key dates, platforms and genres

Latest OTT releases: Indian originals and major returns

Prime Video’s headline among the latest OTT releases is Citadel season 2 on 6 May. Three years after its debut run, the spy series brings Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Stanley Tucci back as Mason Kane, Nadia Sinh and Bernard Orlick, former Citadel agents destroyed by the Manticore syndicate.

The new Citadel chapter introduces another large-scale threat that drags the trio into field duty again. They must assemble a fresh global unit from scratch, while enemies close in. Lesley Manville and Ashleigh Cummings come back, and Jack Reynor, Matt Berry, Lina El Arabi, Merle Dandridge, Gabriel Leone and Rayna Vallandingham join the cast.

Importantly for viewers in India, this Citadel season integrates story threads planned for the cancelled Indian spin-off Citadel: Honey Bunny. Those ideas now surface within the main narrative, weaving past operations with present missions across continents. The show keeps its espionage setting but leans deeper into character histories and betrayals.

Among Indian films in the latest OTT releases, Dacoit lands on Prime Video on 8 May. Adivi Sesh plays Haridas, who breaks out after serving thirteen years in prison. Haridas is driven by a single aim: to take revenge on Saraswati, played by Mrunal Thakur, who Haridas believes engineered the earlier arrest.

Shot in the deserts of Rajasthan, Dacoit adopts a neo-Western crime style around long-planned heists. As Haridas and Saraswati circle each other through robberies and shifting loyalties, their shared past surfaces. The story questions who betrayed whom while revealing a conspiracy larger than their personal conflict, with Anurag Kashyap and Prakash Raj among the ensemble.

Prime Video also offers Lukkhe on 8 May, placing Punjab and Chandigarh’s rap turf wars at the heart of its latest OTT releases. Singer-songwriter King acts for the first time as Badnaam, an aggressive MC clashing with rival rapper OG, played by Shivankit Parihar, in a feud that soon escapes studio walls.

The eight-part Lukkhe blends romance, sport and crime. Lakshvir Singh Saran plays Lucky, a sportsperson pulled into danger through a relationship with musician Sanober, portrayed by Palak Tiwari in an OTT debut. Raashii Khanna appears as Gurbani, a police officer whose probe into escalating violence brings her into direct contact with each faction

Latest OTT releases: International crime, mystery and survival

On 4 May, Netflix unveils Lord of the Flies, a four-episode take on William Golding’s 1954 novel, part of the latest OTT releases focused on survival stories. Writer Jack Thorne, known for Adolescence, reimagines the tale of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island after a plane crash in the early 1950s.

The boys attempt to recreate order, with Ralph, played by Winston Sawyers, relying on guidance from Piggy, portrayed by David McKenna. However, Jack, brought to screen by Lox Pratt, leads a splinter group that rejects rules. Their split drags the stranded children from fragile order into brutality, mirroring the book’s core concerns.

The production for Lord of the Flies takes place in Malaysia. Night scenes employ infrared cameras, giving the visuals a deliberately dreamlike effect. The music team includes Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve and Cristóbal Tapia de Veer, whose score underscores the shift from schoolyard disagreements to violent power struggles among the boys.

Nordic noir returns to the latest OTT releases as Netflix premieres The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek on 7 May. The follow-up revisits detectives Mark Hess and Naia Thulin, played by Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Danica Curcic, five years after the original series became a major success for the region.

This new case opens with a 41-year-old woman reported missing, sending investigators through her online activity. They discover a stalker who has shadowed several women, sharing videos, photos and a sinister nursery rhyme as a countdown. When detectives finally locate her body, evidence draws connections to an unsolved murder of a seventeen-year-old two years earlier

True-crime fans get another option in the latest OTT releases with Worst Ex Ever season 2 on Netflix, streaming from 6 May. Produced by Blumhouse Television and ITV America, the show returns with four hour-long episodes, each focusing on a relationship that collapsed into deception, abuse and sometimes killing.

High-profile stories this season feature Wade Wilson, known as the 'Handsome Devil Killer’, and Geoffrey Paschel from 90 Day Fiancé, convicted of kidnapping and domestic assault. Each episode combines witness interviews, police bodycam footage and animated reconstructions, building a closed investigation that tracks how relationships shift into something deadly

Netflix’s latest OTT releases on 7 May also include two Asian titles. My Dearest Assassin comes from Thailand, tracking Lhan, played by Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, a Vietnamese woman with a rare blood group. Criminals kill Lhan’s parents trying to obtain that blood, leading House 89, a hidden clan of assassins, to adopt Lhan.

Within House 89, Lhan’s closest relationship grows with Pran, portrayed by Thanapob Leeratanakachorn, heir to the organisation. Lhan has never trained as a killer, yet when the person responsible for the earlier murders returns to capture Lhan, she chooses to prepare for combat. Sivakorn Adulsuttikul’s character M, raised inside the clan, completes the central emotional triangle.

Latest OTT releases: Love stories, octopus wisdom and Italian charm

Romantic drama Thank You, Next continues among Netflix’s latest OTT releases, returning with season 3 on 8 May. The story follows Leyla, played by Serenay Sarıkaya, who now stands at a different point in life. Marketing for the season presents the motto: “no more running, only healing”.

New episodes show Leyla attempting to rebuild life on personal terms rather than past relationships. The show shifts attention toward work decisions, long-term commitments and the cost of earlier choices. The focus moves from dating complications to what happens when someone chooses emotional repair instead of constant escape.

Netflix adds Remarkably Bright Creatures on 8 May within its latest OTT releases, adapted from Shelby Van Pelt’s long-running bestseller. Sally Field plays Tova, a widow who works night shifts at a small aquarium in the Pacific Northwest. There, Tova forms an uncommon attachment with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus voiced by Alfred Molina.

Marcellus, who narrates sections of the film, believes Tova carries unresolved history. The octopus begins piecing together clues linked to her past, which intersects with Cameron, played by Lewis Pullman, a drifting musician searching for answers about family. Joan Chen, Kathy Baker, Beth Grant, Colm Meaney and Sofia Black-D'Elia appear in supporting roles

Among Prime Video’s lighter latest OTT releases is No Place to be Single on 8 May, based on Felicia Kingsley’s bestselling work. The romantic comedy unfolds in Belvedere in Chianti, a scenic Tuscan town portrayed as obsessed with relationships, where residents are either happily paired or relentlessly seeking partners.

Matilde Gioli stars as Elisa, a single mother managing the Le Giuggiole estate with sister Giada, played by Amanda Campana, and their mother Mariana, portrayed by Cecilia Dazzi. The routine shifts when Michele, an old friend played by Cristiano Caccamo, unexpectedly returns after years away, reviving emotions Elisa had buried beneath responsibility.

Latest OTT releases: Undercover customs, Miami revenge and musical duos

Netflix’s latest OTT releases on 7 May feature Legends, a six-part crime drama set in early 1990s Britain. At that time, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise struggled against organised drug smuggling and decided to attempt an unusual experiment for undercover work using regular staff.

The department assembled a small unit of customs employees with no undercover experience, took them from ordinary jobs and built basic cover identities known as 'Legends’. Steve Coogan plays Don, the experienced handler guiding this risky operation. Tom Burke’s character Guy, a Heathrow suitcase inspector longing to prove worth, becomes one of Don’s recruits.

The Legends ensemble also includes Hayley Squires, Aml Ameen, Charlotte Ritchie, Jasmine Blackborow, Tom Hughes, Douglas Hodge, Johnny Harris and Con O'Neill. The series dramatizes a little-known real story, following how these civilians navigate dangerous drug networks using limited training, and the personal cost of leading double lives for extended periods.

Crime thriller M.I.A. joins the latest OTT releases on JioHotstar from 8 May. The nine-episode series is set across neon-soaked Miami and the Florida Keys. Shannon Gisela plays Etta Tiger Jonze, whose family’s drug smuggling enterprise collapses after a brutal attack leaves deep losses.

Etta learns that twelve men share responsibility for the killings. The plot follows a methodical revenge plan, as Etta moves through Miami’s criminal world to track each target. The cast includes Cary Elwes, Danay Garcia, Brittany Adebumola, Dylan Jackson, Alberto Guerra, Gerardo Celasco and Marta Milans in key roles around that vendetta.

JioHotstar’s latest OTT releases also feature Song Sung Blue from 9 May, directed by Craig Brewer and adapted from Greg Kohs’s 2008 documentary. Hugh Jackman plays Mike Sardina, a former Marine and recovering alcoholic who becomes a Neil Diamond tribute performer under the stage name "Lightning" in Milwaukee.

Kate Hudson co-stars as Claire, another musician who performs as "Thunder". The two artists meet, forming a musical act and a close relationship while chasing stability and recognition through tribute shows. Michael Imperioli, James Belushi, Fisher Stevens and Ella Anderson appear in supporting roles across the duo’s changing fortunes.

Latest OTT releases: Samurai epics and weekly viewing choices

Rounding off the week’s latest OTT releases, JioHotstar launches Song of the Samurai on 10 May. The live-action series adapts Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem, the long-running manga co-created by Shinya Umemura, who also worked on Record of Ragnarok, and focuses on Kyoto during the late Edo period.

The story centres on the Shinsengumi, a historical samurai militia that defended the shogunate during political upheaval. Yuki Yamada portrays Toshizo Hijikata, once a street fighter, who joins leaders Isami Kondo and Soji Okita. The series tracks friendships and internal loyalty as illness, battlefield losses and shifting national power reshape Japan’s old structures.

Taken together, the latest OTT releases for this week offer Indian viewers an unusually broad spread of genres and languages. From Citadel’s espionage, Dacoit’s deserts and Lukkhe’s rap battles to Lord of the Flies, Remarkably Bright Creatures and Song of the Samurai, the line-up balances heavy crime, emotional drama and lighter romance across several platforms.