O Saathi Re: Imtiaz Ali’s Netflix Series with Aditi Rao Hydari, Arjun Rampal and Avinash Tiwary Premieres December 4

Netflix has finally dated Imtiaz Ali’s next love story. O Saathi Re, the romantic drama series created, written and showrun by Ali, will premiere on Netflix on December 4, 2026, the streamer confirmed this week. The series is directed by Arif Ali, Imtiaz’s brother, and produced by Window Seat Films, with Imtiaz Ali, Mohit Choudhary and Shibasish Sarkar producing. The writing team also includes Amogh Kanaskar and Nidhi Sethia, who serves as creative producer.

The cast is the draw. Aditi Rao Hydari, Avinash Tiwary and Arjun Rampal lead the series, which follows a divorcing couple and the love that was never equal between them. Imtiaz Ali describes it as “a modern romantic show with a vintage heart”, and his own words set the tone: “Sometimes, love surprises you by showing itself in the most unexpected corners. This is the story of the growth of affection in a divorcing couple. Affection has a throbbing heart, love is beautiful, but a relationship can be unequal.” The series is rated U/A 16+, and Netflix has not yet announced an episode count or a trailer.

This is Imtiaz Ali’s third collaboration with Netflix, after She and the acclaimed Amar Singh Chamkila, and the partnership matters because it is where his most personal work has landed in recent years. The premise is pure Imtiaz territory — unequal love, the ache of separation, the slow realisation that letting go can itself be an act of love — but the series format gives him something his films never could: room to let a relationship breathe across hours rather than compressing it into two. That is the gamble and the promise at once. A divorcing couple’s story risks becoming a dirge, and the casting has to carry the lightness the premise threatens to lose.

For Arjun Rampal, it is a busy streaming week: his film Blind Game premiered on ZEE5 only yesterday — we covered it here: https://filmverse.in/blind-game-zee5-premiere-today-arjun-rampal-priyamani-sangeeth-sivan/ — and now he returns in a very different register, as one corner of a love triangle that is really a study of a marriage coming apart. December 4 is a crowded date — Salman Khan’s Maatrubhumi and Shraddha Kapoor’s Eetha both reach cinemas the same day — and Netflix is counter-programming with a romance for the home audience. If the trailer, when it lands, carries the same vintage-hearted ache as the announcement, O Saathi Re could be the quiet hit of the month.

O Saathi Re premieres on Netflix on December 4, 2026.

Source: Netflix India via Filmfare, ANI and Koimoi.