# Lanterns, Chennai Love Story lead this week’s OTT releases 2026-08-17T05:24:27+00:00 | Entertainment | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets DC Studios' Lanterns, the third HBO series in James Gunn's DCU, streams on JioHotstar from August 17. The 18th season of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia arrives on JioHotstar on August 18. Republicworld.com reports these are among the week's major OTT releases. Telugu romantic drama Chennai Love Story, starring Kiran Abbavaram and Sri Gouri Priya Reddy, streams on SonyLIV from August 21, according to both Republicworld.com and m9.news. Pyaar Prema Kalyanam, a Tamil romantic comedy with Saanvee Meghana, debuts on the same date. Other titles include Korean medical drama S&X (August 20), Swedish crime thriller Blood Sacrifice (August 20), and documentary Freefall: A Reckoning For Boeing (August 19). M9.news lists additional August 28 releases: Chumbak on Netflix, Dark Matter season 2 on Apple TV+, and Graveyard season 3 on Netflix. Facing El Chapo, a Spanish crime drama, streams from August 21. ## Coverage - republicworld.com - m9.news This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-17T07:17:02+00:00. Tags: Chennai Love Story, DC Studios, JioHotstar, Lanterns, Netflix, Pyaar Prema Kalyanam Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/lanterns-chennai-love-story-pyaar-prema-kalyanam-lead-ott-releases-this-week/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/lanterns-chennai-love-story-pyaar-prema-kalyanam-lead-ott-releases-this-week/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/