THE BRANDOS
No opening-night queue. No title card. No projector hum. For a film listed as a 2026 release, The…
Author: Tanishq Rajput
Tanishq Rajput has been writing about films for over 5 years, ever since his college days in Bhopal where he studied Digital Media. He’s into massy entertainers, powerful scripts, and movies that stay with you long after the credits roll. When he's not reviewing, you’ll find him rewatching 90s action films or breaking down scenes with friends over chai.
VISA - Vintara Saradaga
The first thing Udbhav's debut asks you to accept is a radio jockey narrating the ordinary life of…
Garividi Lakshmi
The first image that lands is dust: a search party combing the Vizianagaram backroads for a woman who…
Crazy Kalyanam
Badrappa Gajula opens Crazy Kalyanam on a village courtyard where reputation is currency and a daughter is an…
Drones
R. Raghav Mirdath's Drones opens on a hijacked house drone drifting toward an old mansion window, and the…
Poniiy
There is a moment early in Poniiy when the camera simply holds on a dog's paws, waiting at…
Prahaar
The most harrowing sequence in Avinash Arun’s Prahaar does not involve gunfire. It is the sight of Rajkummar…
Nayyi Navelli
Balaji Mohan plants a suspected daayan inside a Meerut joint family and lets the comedy curdle from there.…
Ranabaali
The horseman arrives before the hunger does. Rahul Sankrityan opens on Rayalaseema scrubland in 1876, a prophecy humming…
Jailer 2
The lights dim on a Sun Pictures logo, and within minutes Nelson Dilipkumar asks his audience to accept…
Toxic
Three hours and fourteen minutes is a long time to spend in a world that never quite decides…
My Dear Stranger
Song Cheng finds the thread early. A current investigation snags on an unsolved crime from four years back,…
Manithee
MJ Nitharsan opens his film not with spectacle but with separation. A female physicist carries breakthrough technology she…
Cuddle Café
The most quietly devastating image in Cuddle Café arrives without warning: a man pays for twenty minutes of…
Selvi
Anjali Patil plays Selvi, a home-care nurse who spends her days crossing the thresholds of other people's houses,…
Comrade Kalyan
The Alankar touring talkies has seen better days. Its screen is patched, its seats are torn, and its…
Reporting Live
The sand arrives first. Before a single byline is argued over, Dhruv Tripathi's camera settles on the quiet…
Chevittorma
Leo Thaddeus opens his camera on hands, not faces. A caregiver's hands, folding a cloth, adjusting a pillow,…
Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai
Ram has spent his career building cinematic mazes. From the metaphysical loops of Katradhu Thamizh to the mythic…
418
The most unnerving sound in 418 isn't a scream. It's a key turning in a lock that has…
Vibe
Somewhere in the second hour of Vibe, a terrorist plot is unfolding, a national security crisis is escalating,…
Daayra
Four men are dead in an encounter the whole city is applauding, and Meghna Gulzar opens Daayra not…
Enna Vilai
There is a moment early in Enna Vilai where the camera simply watches the tide retreat, leaving behind…
Hanuman Ansh
On a colonial-era platform, a barefoot sadhu produces a fistful of tickets and refuses to let British officials…
Haiwaan
A blind caretaker reads a crowded ferry by sound alone, footsteps, breathing, the shift of weight across a…
Maremma
Mahishapuram's cracked fields and fevered households set the stage for a rite older than the village itself: the…
Epic - First Semester
A Wanaparthy boy steps off a flight into grey London carrying a filmmaking dream his father already replaced…
One Last Game
One Last Game arrives with a title that suggests closure, a final showdown, a decisive play. Yet the…
Mirzapur
The A certificate lands with the weight of a licensed gun. At 197 minutes, this is not a…
Poovellaam Kettuppaar
The field interviews begin with academic formality, but the unease is immediate. Sathya, a PhD scholar, and her…
Character's Creation
There is a moment, buried somewhere in the middle of this film, where the narrative seems to promise…
Hushar Pittalu
The secret is out in the village, and the families are gathered, faces hard with judgment. Ravi and…
Equal
There is a moment in Equal, or perhaps there isn't, because the film leaves so little trace, where…
Aali
Mulla, a sound engineer, meets Ebby Mathew, an Ayurveda doctor from Dubai, near the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border, and…
Sarvagunn Sampann
The premise is a landmine wrapped in a joke: a middle-class woman in the 1990s discovers her face…
Magudam
The 1965 opening sequence lands with brutal force, a young boy named Linga clawing his way out of…
Hi!
There is a moment in Hi! where Nayanthara and Kavin simply share a glance, and the theatre seems…
Awarapan 2
Emraan Hashmi stands in the shadows, the weight of a decade pressing down on his shoulders as Shivam…
Tadviruddha
There is a moment in Tadviruddha when the retired officer steps back onto the JD Kere Estate, and…
The Abeyance
Rijuta Sharma sits in the quiet of an opening frame, her face a study in controlled devastation, and…
Unmadham
Kunchacko Boban walks into the frame as CPO Shelly, and for a moment, the Malayalam crime-thriller terrain feels…
Sudesha
The Himalayan foothills frame Sudesha Devi not as a passive victim of ecological collapse, but as its most…
LURK
The premise arrives with a growl, a man-eating tiger has turned a threatened landscape into a hunting ground,…
Oh..! Sukumari
Aishwarya Rajesh's Damini can generate electricity through her touch, a quirk that should electrify every frame of this…
Anbe Diana
From the opening frames in Perambur, where a high-energy athlete coach named Chirumamilla Sita Krishna, CSK to his…
Arjunan Per Paththu
Arjunan's parents are struck dead by lightning in the opening minutes of R. Rajmohan's drama, a blunt instrument…
Ikka
There is a moment early in Ikka when Sunny Deol's celebrated lawyer Arjun Mehra refuses a case, only…
Dhamaal 4
The CBFC's scissors did more talking before release than any gag in the film, hand gestures clipped, words…
Aroopi
There is a particular kind of dread that settles in when a horror film opens with a sprawling…
Ananthan Kaadu
The opening frames of Jiyen Krishnakumar's *Ananthan Kaadu* drop us into a politically charged 1990s Thiruvananthapuram, where a…
Nooru Sami
There's a moment early in Sasi's Nooru Saami when Selvi, a widowed mother, quietly tells her two sons…
Cocktail 2
Kunal (Shahid Kapoor) stands at a crossroads, caught between the free-spirited Ally (Kriti Sanon) and the grounded Diya…
VENDETTA-THE BEAST WITHIN
A June 10, 2026 release date and a U/A 16+ certification tell you exactly what kind of evening…
Makaran
From the Film and Television Institute of India comes a picture that feels less like a debut feature…
A Rock
There is no establishing shot here, no hand-holding into the world of *A Rock*. The film opens as…
Dose
The first suspicious death at the hospital lands with clinical precision, no melodrama, just a body that doesn't…
System
Neha Rajvansh walks into her tenth consecutive case with the weight of her father's law firm on her…
Ugly Story
There is a moment early in Pranava Swaroop's Telugu psychological thriller where Karthik's attention shifts from charming to…
Chand Mera Dil
The engineering campus hums with unspoken glances and half-finished conversations. Chandni and Aarav orbit each other through hostel…
Drishyam 3
Georgekutty sits in a room that has been his prison and his fortress for three films now. When…