Author: Shaurya Iyer

Shaurya Iyer is a film critic with a background in Literature and a passion for visual storytelling. With 6+ years of reviewing experience, he’s known for decoding complex plots and highlighting hidden cinematic gems. Off-duty, you’ll find him sipping filter coffee and rewatching classics.

Action

Ananthan Kaadu (2026)

The opening scene of Ananthan Kaadu finds its protagonist making a desperate choice in the shadows of a 1980s town, his face half-lit by a…

Drama

Main Vaapas Aaunga (2026)

A 95-year-old man, his body a ruin of tremors and fragmented speech, mumbles, “Main vaapas aaunga” into the silence of a hospital room. His grandson,…

Drama

Chinna Chinna Aasai (2026)

Varsha Vasudev throws a curveball in Tamil cinema: two strangers, Leela and Madhavan Mash, meet by chance in Varanasi, and the next hour is measured…

Action

Transfer Trimurthulu (2026)

A principled constable stumbles upon a chance discovery, and the film’s first act hinges on this single moment of moral gravity. Vadde Naveen’s honest cop…

Drama

Nooru Sami (2026)

A widowed mother stands in her village courtyard, her sons watching as neighbors whisper. Years of silence have carved deeper lines than age. The moment…

Action

Maa Inti Bangaram (2026)

A woman with a violent past enters a traditional household under false pretenses, promising safety she cannot guarantee. When her former life circles back to…

Action

Valluvan (2026)

A series of high-profile murders ripples through the city, each killing meticulously traced back to institutional rot and concealed crimes that demand exposure. When investigators…

Crime

Moondraam Kan (2026)

A factory floor erupts into suspicion when its general manager turns up dead. The investigation that follows doesn’t hunt for a single culprit, it unearths…

Drama

Double Occupancy (2026)

A woman by day, a man by night, the same body, two separate souls trying to navigate love without collision. Double Occupancy walks directly into…

Action

VENDETTA-THE BEAST WITHIN (2026)

A title arrives in June 2026 carrying the weight of vengeance and primal fury, Vendetta: The Beast Within, yet the film itself remains largely shrouded,…

Comedy

Sing Geetham (2026)

Prathap arrives in a remote village seeking reinvention, only to find himself trapped between the bulldozers of modernity and the stubborn roots of tradition. The…

Comedy

Abadameva Jayathe (2026)

A man binds himself to absolute honesty, convinced that girls are born as punishment for liars, a premise so deliberately absurd it either collapses under…

Comedy

Parimala & Co (2026)

A chaotic family spirals through absurd emotional violence and crime-adjacent schemes. Jayaram anchors the mayhem with the weariness of a man watching his world unravel…

Drama

Rao Bahadur (2026)

A royal figure moves through the crumbling chambers of inherited privilege, every shadow a whisper of suspicion, every interaction a test of loyalty in a…

Comedy

Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai (2026)

A marriage fractures under the weight of competing ambitions. Jass wants a family; Bani wants her career. The gap between them widens into something neither…

Hindi

Monkey In A Cage (2026)

A fading television star blocks his ex-partner’s calls, a gesture meant to protect his new life, and within hours, finds himself arrested on a rape…

Comedy

Mollywood Times (2026)

A small-town teenager fixates on directing films, pleading with his father for a video camera in the opening moments, a request that crystallizes both his…

Comedy

Ontari E-Kaki (2026)

We arrive at a peculiar critical juncture: a film with a release date, June 3, 2026, and a title that signals arrival, but nothing else.…

Action

Peddi (2026)

A spirited villager rallies his 1980s Andhra Pradesh community through sport to defend their collective pride against a powerful rival’s encroachment. The premise of Buchi…

Comedy

അവിചാരിതം (2026)

അവിചാരിതം, the Malayalam word itself carries weight, suggesting something unforeseen or unexpected, arrives as a 2026 release shrouded in the kind of obscurity that defines…

Drama

Habeebi (2026)

A boy and girl from a Muslim neighbourhood in southern Tamil Nadu ignite a romance that fractures their community’s carefully maintained social equilibrium. What begins…

Comedy

Karakkam (2026)

A possessed house and its increasingly unhinged inhabitants spiral through Malayalam cinema’s familiar supernatural-comedy framework, testing whether genre collision can salvage what appears to be…

Action

Kattalan (2026)

A man stands alone against forces designed to crush him, no shield, no mercy, only forward motion. Kattalan arrives as a Malayalam action-thriller positioned to…

Comedy

Pati Patni Aur Woh Do (2026)

A marriage fractures in Prayagraj the moment one misstep triggers cascading misunderstandings among four central characters, each convinced of their own narrative righteousness. The comedy-of-errors…

Raja Shivaji (2026)

A young warrior watches his family’s name dragged through mud by oppressive rulers before he is even born. By film’s end, he wears a crown.…

Adventure

Krishnavataram Part 1: The Heart (Hridayam)

Krishna emerges from Vrindavan as a figure caught between earthly longing and cosmic duty, his face etched with the weight of separation from Radha. Hardik…

Drama

Michael (2026)

Michael Jackson’s silhouette moves across a darkened stage, moonwalk, spin, that iconic tilt, and the recreation feels alive in a way the rest of Antoine…

Drama

Chand Mera Dil (2026)

Chandni meets Aarav in the unguarded space of college, where ambition hasn’t yet collided with emotion. What begins as an everyday connection deepens into something…

Drama

Battle (2026)

A civil rights activist and his fractured cell of revolutionaries emerge from the shadows when their nemesis, a white nationalist leader dormant for sixteen years,…

Comedy

Bhooth Bangla (2026)

A wealthy family arrives at a sprawling Indian bungalow for a destination wedding, only to find the mansion breathing with malevolent presences that refuse simple…