VISA – Vintara Saradaga (2026): Vintara Saradaga (2026): Ashok Galla’s Campus Romance Is All Setup, No Payoff
The first voice you hear in VISA – Vintara Saradaga belongs to a radio jockey, narrating the small comedies of an Indian…
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Garividi Lakshmi (2026): Anandhi Anchors a Folk-Biopic That Buries Its Own Fire
Anandhi steps onto a bare stage with a mike and no safety net, and for a fleeting stretch the theater belongs to…
Crazy Kalyanam (2026): Anupama Parameswaran Anchors A Sincere But Uneven Rural Drama
Anupama Parameswaran plays Keerthi, a young woman in rural Telangana who wants to finish her education before anyone finishes arranging her life.…
Drones (2026): Dravid Selvam Anchors a Tamil Surrealist Fantasy That Refuses to Sit Still
A drone hovers over an old mansion, piloted by a suspended astrophysics student who has no idea he is about to fall…
Poniiy (2026): Kunal Singh and a Missing-Owner Mystery That Never Quite Bites
Shibesh Motilal opens on a dog that belongs to two households at once, and a girl who decides that arithmetic is intolerable.…
Prahaar (2026): Rajkummar Rao’s Controlled Prosecutor vs. A Courtroom That Won’t Hold Still
The single chargesheet lands on the judge’s desk like a closing fist, and for one clean moment the chaos of 26/11 has…
Nayyi Navelli (2026): Yami Gautam’s Daayan Bride Comedy Sags Under Its Own Folklore
The most unsettling image in Balaji Mohan’s Meerut-set fantasy comedy isn’t a reversed footprint or a flickering tube light. It’s the sight…
Ranabaali (2026): Vijay Deverakonda’s Famine-Era Revolt Sings, Then Sags
Somewhere in the third hour of Ranabaali, a British commissioner asks a starving village what it wants, and the answer arrives not…
Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups (2026): The Opening Scene gives the film energy despite weak payoffs
The first glimpse of Raya is pure spectacle. Yash towers over the frame, the Goa underworld bending to his will as the…
Drishyam: The Conclusion (2026): Ajay Devgn’s Vijay Salgaonkar Returns in a Sequel That Guards Its Secrets Too Well
The rain-slicked verandah of the Salgaonkar house is the first thing we see, and it tells us everything: this family has been…
Afreet – A Never Ending Night (2026): A Never Ending Night (2026): Dev Bodhare’s Horror Short Fumbles Its Own Terror
The most frightening thing about a 23-minute horror short is how fast the clock runs out on atmosphere. Afreet – A Never…
Kalpana Aur Yatharth: Salil Singh’s Reality-Bending Drama Is A Ghost Of A Film
The most telling detail about Kalpana Aur Yatharth is that its own director plays the man doing the searching. Salil Singh casts…
Manithee: the fire bird (2026): MJ Nitharsan’s Ambitious Tamil Fantasy-Thriller Burns Bright But Flickers Out
MJ Nitharsan’s Manithee: The Fire Bird opens with a premise that sounds like two different films wrestling for the same runtime. A…
Kitti (2026): Ashok Kumar Balakrishnan Anchors a Confession Thriller That Forgets to Interrogate
The auto-rickshaw driver walks into the station and says he did it. Two bodies, he claims, are on him. No chase, no…
Selvi (2026): Anjali Patil Anchors a Caregiving Drama That Refuses to Look Away
Kavitha falls in the middle of a shift, and the camera does not rush to catch her. She simply drops, and the…
Comrade Kalyan (2026): Sree Vishnu’s Double Act Can’t Hold a Fractured Revolution
The film opens in 1992 on the Andhra–Odisha border, where a local theatre owner named Kalyan (Sree Vishnu) grins his way through…
Chevittorma (2026): Dileesh Pothan Anchors a Deathbed Vigil That Refuses to Expire
The whisper arrives before the man does. In the opening stretch of Chevittorma, Pauly Valsan’s Theresia leans over a stranger’s bed in…
Shabara (2026): Dheekshith Shetty Digs Into A Dual-Era Treasure Hunt That The Evidence Can’t Yet Cash
Two eras. One treasure. That’s the whole pitch, and Kilaru Prem Chand’s directorial debut is smart enough to know that a logline…
Avaraachan & Sons (2026): Biju Menon Anchors A Warm, Wayward Family Comedy
Chellanam is the kind of coastal town that keeps receipts. Every slurred insult, every unpaid tab, every night Avaraachan stumbles home reeking…
Bail (2026): Shiva Rajkumar Anchors A Sturdy But Overstuffed Cop Drama
Shiva Rajkumar does not enter Bail so much as he settles into it. The first sustained image of him as retired commissioner…
Thella Kaagitham (2026): Harsh Roshan Leads A Tender 2000s Romance That Keeps Its Biggest Scene Off-Screen
The most discussed scene in Thella Kaagitham never appears in the film. Weeks before its 2 October 2026 release, an intimate sequence…
Baththa (2026): Vijay Sethupathi Anchors A High-Concept Premise That Tests Patience
Balaji Tharaneetharan has never been a filmmaker interested in the obvious. The director behind Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom and Seethakaathi has built…
Vibe (2026): Kunal Khemu’s Spy Caper Is a Great First Half Trapped in a Bloated Second
Somewhere around the ninety-minute mark of Vibe, a Bangkok corridor fills with the sound of two grown men bickering over a wire…
HALF (2026): and the Missing Pieces
Half opens on snow, not fangs. Somewhere in Europe, a vampire named Victor falls for a human woman, Sofia, and the hunters…
Enna Vilai (2026): A Fisherman, a Gold Pendant, and the Quiet Machinery of Injustice
The first image that sells Enna Vilai is almost insultingly simple: a coin sinking through green water, caught between a devotee’s fingers…
Epic – First Semester (2026): Hesham Abdul Wahab’s Melodies Outlast the Drift
A phone call home from a cramped London flat, a mother’s voice thinning into static while her son counts pounds he does…
Last Man in Tower (2026): Bajpayee Holds the Line, Dutta Steals the Room
Masterji sits with a child’s arithmetic book, correcting sums while, somewhere in the same building, neighbours weigh a builder’s offer against decades…
Haiwaan (2026): Priyadarshan’s Craft Holds While His Thriller Slips
Sound arrives before sight in Haiwaan, and Priyadarshan leans into that idea with real craft. A blind caretaker maps a room by…
Pradhama Dhrishtya Kuttakkar (2026): Shahad Nilambur’s Craft Sharpens a Moral Trap
A scuffle inside the Nattakom station in Kottayam ends with a man in custody dead on the floor, and four constables standing…
America America 2 (2026): Nagathihalli’s Seattle Gamble Never Quite Pays Off
Nudi flies into Seattle chasing a work contract and walks straight into the one man she spent years trying to forget. The…