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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Maremma (2026): Telangana Rituals Shot Beautifully, Wrapped In Tedium
In Mahishapuram, drought and epidemic have drained a Telangana village dry, and the goddess Maremma is still waiting for her buffalo. Karni…
The Transition (2026): A Documentary’s Ghost Haunts Berlin’s Changing Streets
There is a peculiar weight to any film that begins as someone else’s final project. The Transition arrives carrying the ghost of…
I’m Game (2026): A Nearly Three keeps the film tense but uneven overall
Dulquer Salmaan’s Dan John enters a world of high-stakes crime with the swagger of a man who knows the odds are stacked…
Soulmates – Oru Saathukkudi Pranayam (2026): Nivin Pauly Anchors Meta-Romance That Plays Too Safe
Joel Davis walks into the frame of a film that is not quite his own, pitching a short film about a mosambi,…
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…
Character’s Creation (2026): The Missing Frame keeps the film tense but uneven overall
There is a moment in *Character’s Creation* where the frame goes empty, no actor, no dialogue, just a held silence that stretches…
Hushar Pittalu (2026): A Predictable Youth Drama Undone by Its Own Boldness
Ansh Thorat plays Ravi as a Class 10 topper whose studious foundation crumbles the moment romance enters the frame. There is an…
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.…
Aali (2026): A Malayalam Romance That Trusts Its Quiet Moments
There is a particular stillness in Malayalam romantic dramas that Hollywood often rushes past, the pause before a confession, the weight of…
Sarvagunn Sampann (2026): Vaani Kapoor’s Identity Comedy Is a Curious Oddity
The teaser’s defining image is unmistakable: Vaani Kapoor split across two looks, one demure and one dangerously close to a public fantasy,…
Hi! (2026): Nayanthara-Kavin’s Charm Carries A Familiar Courtship
The first meeting is built around nothing more than a greeting, and that restraint becomes the movie’s quietest strength. In that initial…
Dulhaniya Le Aaeegi (2026): Khushalii Kumar Anchors lifts key stretches, not the full runtime
The wedding mandap is set, the families are squabbling, and Navya, a 32-year-old heiress played by Khushalii Kumar, is told she must…
Karavali (2026): Kambala Spectacle Can’t Hide A Fractured Narrative
The Kambala races thunder across the screen with mud-splattered ferocity, and for a moment, Gurudatta Ganiga’s coastal drama feels like it might…
Sathyavan Savithiri: A Courtroom Drama That Rests on Keerthy Suresh’s Shoulders
The teaser places us inside a sterile courtroom, where the camera lingers on the polished wood of the benches before settling on…
G.D.N (2026): Madhavan Holds the lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
There is a moment early on when R. Madhavan, as the self-taught inventor G.D. Naidu, demonstrates a piece of his own engineering…
Oh..! Sukumari (2026): A Rural Comedy That Never Finds Its Rhythm
The opening stretch of Oh..! Sukumari introduces Yadagiri (Thiruveer) as a village innocent whose romantic entanglement with Damini (Aishwarya Rajesh) promises the…
Anbe Diana (2026): A Sweet Romance Held Up by Pari Elavazhagan’s Charm
There is a particular kind of Tamil romance that believes love can bulldoze every social barrier, and Pari Elavazhagan’s directorial debut leans…