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1. Seven Tamil thrillers streaming in the US right now

   The thriller is Tamil cinema's export genre. These are the ones on Netflix, Prime Video and Sun NXT this month, with the audio tracks each service actually lists.

   India Masala Team · 9 September 2026

2. Malayalam cinema for the curious: eight films, and where each one streams in the US

   Kerala makes the most consistently interesting films in India right now. Half of them are on services you have never heard of. Here is how to get to them.

   India Masala Team · 9 September 2026

3. Where to stream Satyajit Ray in the US, film by film

   The Criterion Channel has the most, HBO Max has the Apu trilogy, the Bengali services hold the ones the West forgot, and nine films are on nothing at all. A map of every one.

   India Masala Team · 9 September 2026

4. New to streaming in the US: eight Indian films that arrived this month

   From our own crawls of Netflix and Prime Video: what turned up for American viewers since early August, which language each one plays in, and which are worth a Friday night.

   India Masala Team · 9 September 2026

5. Bengali cinema on streaming in the US, beyond Satyajit Ray

   Ritwik Ghatak on the Criterion Channel, sixties musicals on ZEE5 with the original audio confirmed, and the new Kolkata thrillers arriving every month. Where Bengali film lives now.

   India Masala Team · 9 September 2026

6. Which language will it play in? How to check before you press play

   A Tamil film on Netflix may open in a Hindi dub. Here is why that happens, what "confirmed" and "inferred" mean on this site, and how to get the track you actually want.

   India Masala Team · 9 September 2026