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…
Tadviruddha (2026): A Dense Kannada Mystery That Values Evidence Over Excitement
Vikram Ramaiah’s retired officer Anthony sits with a fading crime photograph, the kind of grainy 1990s evidence that demands patience. There is…
Photographer (2026): Ashraf A’s Forest Thriller Is a Promise Waiting to Develop
The trailer’s most telling moment isn’t a jump scare, it’s Veera standing at the edge of Mathikettan Solai, told that twelve people…
Sweet Rogue Killer (2026): Karthick Ravichandran s lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
A lone figure stands amidst the rubble of what was once the Forelli empire, his silhouette cutting against the smoke of a…
Baby Do Die Do (2026): The First Kill keeps the film tense but uneven overall
The first murder arrives in near-silence. Baby KarMarKar, a deaf-mute woman played by Huma Qureshi, hears her dead sister’s voice for the…
Accused (2026): Konkona Carries a Film Too Cautious to Fully Commit
A surgeon stands over an open incision and calls her colleague’s work a bloody disaster, cool, clinical, almost bored in her contempt.…