Last Seen and The Paper land in a week Indian viewers already had four titles to choose from

Punjab, Sept. 11 -- Apple TV's Last Seen began streaming on September 9, and the second season of The Paper arrives in the same window, alongside a crowded Hindi slate.

Last Seen

The thriller follows Ian Ridley, whose daughter Maggie disappeared without trace eleven years earlier. The eleven-year gap is the structural choice worth noting: a missing-child story set in the immediate aftermath is a procedural, while one set a decade later is about what the absence did to the people left behind.

Two markets, one week

Indian viewers this week could pick from Chumbak on Netflix, Ghamasaan on ZEE5, Ali Baba Aur 40 Bhoot on JioHotstar, and the international slate including Last Seen and The Paper.

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