Maharaja Hostel (2026): Horror-comedy held together by its cast’s energy
The teaser opens on a rundown hostel with peeling paint and flickering lights, a visual shorthand for the horrors to come. Three…
Modha Rathri (2026): Wedding Night Farce With Sharp Writing But Familiar Beats
The camera finds Maruthanayagam frozen mid-gesture, a groom trapped between ritual expectation and rising panic. Rishikanth plays the entire wedding-night disaster as…
Mollywood Times (2026): Naslen’s Meta-Cinematic Coming-of-Age Gambit
A teenager asks his father for a video camera, then gathers friends to shoot a horror short that will live forever in…
Uttar Da Puttar (2026): A Gentle Satire That Prefers Warmth Over Bite
Annu Kapoor leads this ensemble with the kind of heartfelt ease that has become his signature. His Professor isn’t a loud caricature;…
Apology (2026): A Friend-Search Comedy Caught Between Ambition and Runtime
A gravel road stretches through a nondescript Uttar Pradesh town, three men on a rickety scooter scanning each face they pass, the…
A TOY GUN (2026): A Title in lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
The problem with A Toy Gun begins before a single frame unspools. It is a film that, at the time of viewing,…
Naina (2026): Urmila Matondkar’s Eyes Betray Unsettling Truths
A young woman regains her sight through cornea surgery and immediately begins seeing dead bodies no one else can perceive. The transplanted…
Equal (2026): lead performance keeps the film tense but uneven overall
A title like Equal carries a promise, of balance, of symmetry, of a story that knows exactly what it wants to say.…
Idhayam Murali (2026): Aakash Baskaran risks monotony in a romance of missed chances
It is a framing device that promises self-awareness, but the film soon settles into a rhythm of repetition that threatens to dull…
Once More (2026): Arjun Das Carries lifts key stretches, not the full runtime
Arjun Das, known for his intense turns, shifts gears as Raghu, a man still nursing a broken heart. His introduction establishes a…
Cocktail 2 (2026): Adajania’s Ensemble Romance Stumbles on Narrative Clarity
A long-term relationship fractures the moment an old friend materializes, igniting a scheme between two women that spirals into emotional chaos. Homi…
Bhaskara Bharanam (2026): Roopesh Peethambaran Doubles lifts key stretches, not the full runtime
The forced cohabitation premise lands with an almost theatrical bluntness: a father and son who can barely stand each other, now locked…
Pluto (2026): Adithyan Chandrashekar risks familiarity with alien-comedy formula
An extraterrestrial lands in a quiet Kerala village, and the local chaos machine revs up. This is a bet on ensemble charm…
Your’s Sincerely RAAM (2026): A Kannada Drama That Puts Memory Before Momentum
The pre-release buzz around Your’s Sincerely RAAM leaned heavily on one image: Ganesh in a Hanuman avatar. That single visual promised spectacle,…