Sweet Dreams to Aachari Baa to Dil Dosti Aur Dogs: 8 Hindi movies available on OTT that you must watch before 2025 ends...

When we talk about Bollywood, we mostly mention the blockbusters and the star-studded spectacles, but don't even keep any idea about those small budget yet meaningful movies that tell some inspiring stories. Many of you might have heard about John Abraham's Tehran, or Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Costao, or Arshad Warsi's Bhagwat, which were released in 2025, but how many of you have actually watched them?! There are many other such underrated Hindi movies OTTplay Premium brings you to enjoy at home during the weekends.

Unmissable Bollywood movies:

Aachari Baa

This family drama features Neena Gupta, Kabir Bedi, Apoorva Arora, Vatsal Sheth and Vandana Pathak. The story follows a veteran widow from Gujarat who moves to Mumbai to live with her adult son. Soon her life gets challenging when she's tasked to take care of the son's pet dog while he's on a vacation with his family. The mother soon makes a special bond with the dog and finds a purpose in life when her pickle making goes viral on the internet.

Dil Dosti Aur Dogs

This comedy drama stars Tridha Choudhury, Sharad Kelkar, Ehan Bhat, Neena Gupta, Kunaal Roy Kapur. Dil Dosti Aur Dogs follows an anthology format, focusing on four stories that are linked with the adorable connection between humans and dogs. These stories include a married couple, a daughter and step-father connection, an elderly widow, and a hotel manager who's scared of dogs. Each story navigates building bonds with their respective dogs.

Sweet Dreams

Mithila Palkar and Amol Parashar's this drama focuses on two strangers who falls in their shared dreams and later struggle to find each other out in the real world. The movie explores themes of destiny vs chances, love, break-ups, mental disturbance, self-discovery, and the pressure of modern lifestyle as they try to navigate their individual realities. While focusing on fantasy elements, Sweet Dreams highlights major problems in life which we often ignore due to our daily struggles.

Murderbaad

The Family Man-fame Sharib Hashmi's this crime thriller drama focuses on a foreign tourist who falls in love with an Indian tour guide and shockingly goes missing. As the tour guide becomes the lead suspect, this turn into a rigorous investigation and searching the missing woman immediately before something brutal happens to her. The movie also features Kanikka Kapur, Saloni Batra, Nakul Roshan Sahdev, Manish Chaudhari and Amole Gupte.

Logout

Babil Khan's this cyber crime thriller follows the story of a popular social media influencer who's on the verge of completing his 10 million followers milestone. But things take a dark turn when a crazy fan of his, steals his phone and starts to blackmail the influencer. Logout explores the dark side of internet and how people have become overly reliant on smart phones which lead to being lost from the reality and a disconnection from their surroundings.

Bhagwat Chapter 1

Panchayat-fame Jitendra Kumar portrays the main antagonist's role for the first time in this movie. The story follows Arshad Warsi as Inspector Vishwas Bhagwat who has extreme hatred for criminals. Vishwas is infamous in the department due to ruthless methods. He has been transformed to a small town in Uttar Pradesh where he must find out the missing young women, which leads to larger conspiracy that Bhagwat must crack and catch the hidden criminal at any cost.

Tehran

John Abraham's this spy thriller also features Manushi Chhillar, Neeru Bajwa, Elnaaz Norouzi. The story is based on the 2012 bomb attacks on Israeli diplomats in New Delhi. Tehran is not a direct historical reenactment but a fictional story about a police officer who gets entangled in a covert mission amidst geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel. The officer must deal with his personal vendetta as the death of a young girl turns a close case to him.

Costao

Nawazuddin Siddiqui portays the titular role of Costao Fernandes, who used to be a customs officer in Goa during the 1990s, and got retired in 2014. The movie focuses on his daring story of exposing the gold smugglers and his fight against corruption. The main conflict arises when Costao accidentally kills the brother of a well-known politician that leads to a high-stakes scandal, putting his family in peril and turns the government and law against him.