Comedy
Picture (2026): Deepu s Village lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
The opening frames catch Deepu (Nithyaprakash Bantwal) packing a single bag, his eyes fixed on a city skyline he has only seen in posters. His…
Comedy
Korean Kanakaraju (2026): Varun Tej’s possessed spectacle promises chaos but can it deliver?
The interrogation room in Korea is quiet, tense. A photographer, played by Satya, is sweating under the glare of Korean police officers, and an interpreter…
Ottam Thullal (2026): A Familiar Rural Recipe That Banks on Its Ensemble
G. Marthandan’s latest Malayalam family entertainer arrives with a title that promises mischief, yet the film’s first frames suggest a director content to stroll through…
Pluto (2026): Neeraj Madhav anchors a loopy alien comedy with uneven execution
The alien crash-lands in a sleepy Kerala village, and within minutes, the local tea shop erupts in chaos. Neeraj Madhav’s Vicky stares, the crowd mutters,…
Maharaja Hostel (2026): The warden s lifts key stretches, not the full runtime
Three engineering students unpack their bags in a city hostel that promises cheap rent and fresh starts. Within minutes, the warden MGR, played with unsettling…
Dongamohan (2026): A Flawed Action Drama That Fails to Find Its Pulse
The film opens with a single gunshot echoing across a rain-soaked street, but the tension evaporates before the first reel ends. What initially feels like…
Love Oh Love (2026): The Challenge That keeps the film tense but uneven overall
The film opens with Raghuvaran (Pavish Narayan) at his lowest point, jobless, drowning in debt, and abandoned by his family after his girlfriend Avantika’s (Naga…
Gatta Kusthi 2 (2026): Vishnu Vishal Anchors a Heartfelt Role Reversal Story
Vishnu Vishal steps into Veera’s domestic role with a quiet dignity that avoids becoming a caricature. In the scene where he confronts public judgment about…
Con City (2026): The Lightning That gives the film energy despite weak payoffs
A receipt printer, jolted by a lightning strike in a cramped city apartment, begins coughing out ₹500 notes instead of bills. Arjun Das and Anna…
Heartin (2026): A Lightweight Romance Held Together By Charming Lead Performances
The couple is introduced in a breezy, charming montage, smiling, flirting, and falling into the comfortable rhythm of new love. Then fate throws a wrench…
Welcome to the Jungle (2026): A bloated, chaotic return that forgets its own comic soul
The gang war sequence arrives an hour in, Akshay Kumar and Sanjay Dutt, each clutching a weapon, bodies colliding in a spray of dust and…
Suitcased (2026): A Formally Audacious Thriller That Rewrites Its Own Rules
We open on a train compartment. A man slides a suitcase under the seat, locks eyes with a stranger for a fraction of a second…
Sing Geetham (2026): Ahilya Bamroo Anchors a Collision Between Village Tradition and Progress
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…
Abadameva Jayathe (2026): A High-Concept Comedy Built on Risky Social Belief
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…
Parimala & Co (2026): Jayaram s Exhaustion stands out while the narrative loses grip
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…
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai (2026): Varun Dhawan navigates marital unraveling in Dhawan’s romantic comedy
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…
Mollywood Times (2026): Naslen’s Cinema Dream Risks Ambition Over Execution
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…
Ontari E-Kaki (2026): The Void Where lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
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.…
അവിചാരിതം (2026): A Malayalam Film Lost to Verification Limbo
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…
Karakkam (2026): Subhash Lalitha Subrahmanian’s Comedy-Horror Hybrid Gamble
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…
Pati Patni Aur Woh Do (2026): Ensemble Cast Cannot Rescue Familiar Marital Comedy
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…
Bhooth Bangla (2026): Priyadarshan’s Genre Mechanics Stretched Thin by Dual-Role Scaffolding
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…
Raakaasa (2026): Sangeeth Shobhan’s Charm Can’t Rescue Uneven Fantasy Comedy
Eera Babu, cheerful NRI, failed romantic, accidental fort-dweller, wakes up after a whiskey-soaked evening beside a deserted, supposedly cursed fort. His evening began with desperation:…
G.O.A.T (2026): Caleb McLaughlin’s Underdog Goat Scores Against Skepticism
A young anthropomorphic goat walks into a professional roarball arena where every other player towers over him, literally and figuratively. Ten years of idolizing star…
Oru Durooha Saahacharyathil (2026): Kunchacko Boban’s Commitment Can’t Anchor Uneven Thriller
Sethu performs as a dead man inside his home, a quirky masquerade born from his paralyzed brother’s refusal to grieve. When a wounded stranger arrives…
Vaazha II (2026): Savin SA Chases Laughs Over Lingering Emotion
Four friends spiral through adulthood marked as liabilities, parents disappointed, schools indifferent, society labeling them failures before they’ve begun. Vaazha II widens the lens on…
Bharathanatyam 2 Mohiniyattam (2026): Saiju Kurup’s Comedy Sequel Bets on Familiar Faces
Sequels to surprise comedy hits carry a peculiar burden, the first film’s charm was accidental, unrepeatable, and deeply personal to its original audience. Mohiniyattam, the…
TN 2026 (2026): Natty’s Political Gamble Courts Controversy Before Release
A movie star named “Golden Star” Kulkanth Kumar decides he wants to govern, and the Pollachi soil beneath his ambition is already soaked in five…
Love Insurance Kompany (2026): Pradeep Ranganathan Carries stands out while the narrative loses grip
A man named Vibe Vasu tells a matchmaking algorithm, in the year 2040, that a human heart can do what no app ever could, and…
Carmeni Selvam (2026): Samuthirakani Bets on a Quiet, Risky Honesty
A principled car driver named Selvam watches the gap between his conscience and his rent widen with every passing day, that precise, uncomfortable tension is…