Pyre
Vinod Kapri opens on a hillside so emptied of people that the goats have become the village’s loudest…
Drama
Little Thomas
Kaushal Oza opens on a seven-year-old’s face in Fontainhas, and the entire film’s gamble is written there: a…
Doosra
Abhinay Deo opens on a grainy 1990s montage, liberalisation, depleted coffers, cricket on a boxy television, and stakes…
Dhood (Sandstorm)
The sand does not move in Anand Singh Chouhan's opening frames. It sits, pale and indifferent, behind a…
Sumo Didi
Shriyam Bhagnani steps into the ring as Hetal Dave, India's first professional female sumo wrestler, and the film…
THE BRANDOS
No opening-night queue. No title card. No projector hum. For a film listed as a 2026 release, The…
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…
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…
Ranabaali
The horseman arrives before the hunger does. Rahul Sankrityan opens on Rayalaseema scrubland in 1876, a prophecy humming…
Toxic
Three hours and fourteen minutes is a long time to spend in a world that never quite decides…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Abeyance
Rijuta Sharma sits in the quiet of an opening frame, her face a study in controlled devastation, and…
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…
Nooru Sami
There's a moment early in Sasi's Nooru Saami when Selvi, a widowed mother, quietly tells her two sons…
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…
Kartavya
The journalist dies within minutes of arriving under Pawan Malik's protection, a murder that should ignite a thriller…
Sattendru Maarudhu Vaanilai
The pub meeting is electric, Kathir and Janaki lock eyes, and within what feels like minutes, they are…
Aakhri Sawal
Professor Gopal Nadkarni (Sanjay Dutt) publicly tears apart his research scholar's thesis on the RSS, and in that…
Pati Patni Aur Woh Do
Ayushmann Khurrana returns as Prajapati Pandey, a man whose life appears to be one long misunderstanding. The film…
Athiradi
The opening sequence of Athiradi doesn't creep toward its premise, it charges. Samkutty, played with wired enthusiasm by…
PARAYANA
The opening frames of Parayana arrive with little introduction, placing us in a world that feels immediate yet…
She Sells Seashells
Maruti moves through her morning routine on a Goa beach, selling seashells to indifferent tourists, her stillness speaking…
Sathi Leelavathi
There's a moment early in Sathi Leelavathi when Ram Sethu tells his filmmaker wife that her success has…
I'm Not An Actor
The video call connects a frustrated Mumbai actor to a depressed ex-banker in Frankfurt, and within minutes, the…
Daadi Ki Shaadi
Neetu Kapoor sits in a quiet Shimla room, and for a fleeting moment, the film around her stops…
Krishnavataram Part 1
The camera follows Krishna as he leaves the opulence of Dwarka, bound for the blood-soaked fields of Kurukshetra.…
The Last Tenant
There is a moment in the cottage when Sagar and Manvi share a silence that feels heavier than…
Angam Attahasam
Ajay Chandran is 24, caught in Trivandrum's violent underworld, and the trailer's promise of a raw gangster drama…
Revolver Rinko
The children of a rural Kerala village have decided they are going to make a superhero film, and…
29
Sathya and Viji's love story doesn't unfold in song-and-dance fantasy. It lives in the spaces between family arguments,…
The Storm, the Calm. The Madness, the Magic.
There is a moment, early in Nihar Palwe's short film, where a man at his lowest point catches…
8th Street
Late at night, in a quiet corner of the city, a weary stranger, a silent old man, and…
Commandovin Love Story
The commando meets the Ph.D. student during a journey home, and the film builds its entire romantic architecture…
In the Chaos of Diwali
The Malhotra household is a pressure cooker of unspoken grievances, and Rohan Bakshi's camera lingers on the diyas…
Paavakoothu
Rajesh, a college student carrying the weight of an unspoken crush, is told by Amudha Mozhi to read…