Kalpana Aur Yatharth: Salil Singh’s Reality-Bending Drama Loses Itself in Its Own Maze
Salil Singh’s Kalpana Aur Yatharth arrives with the kind of premise that suggests a filmmaker reaching for the metaphysical, a man named…
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Crime
Reporting Live (2026): Parineeti Chopra’s Investigative Thriller Buries Its Own Story
Dhruv Tripathi’s debut opens on the kind of premise that should make executives nervous: a field reporter and her reluctant cameraman stumble…
Drama
Hanuman Ansh (2026): Shobhinaw Satyaa’s Devotional Restraint Builds a Saint’s Life From Silence
Vishal Chaturvedi opens his film on a boy standing at the edge of a funeral pyre, and for the next two and…
Comedy
Prem Keetanu (2026): Veer Pahariya Stumbles Through A Remake That Misreads Its Own Genre
Apoorv Singh Karki arrives at his first theatrical comedy with an enviable résumé. The director behind Sirf Ek Banda Kaafi Hai and…
Crime
Daayra (2026): Meghna Gulzar’s Cop-vs-Cop Procedural Is a Cold, Careful Autopsy of Encounter Justice
Meghna Gulzar has spent a career refusing the easy catharsis of the vigilante. Her detectives don’t win; they file reports. So it…
Drama
Last Man in Tower (2026): Manoj Bajpayee’s Quiet Holdout Against a Colony’s Greed
A builder’s slides glow in a cramped Vakola society hall, and by the time tea is poured, decades of neighbourly habit are…
Crime
Haiwaan (2026): Saif’s Blind Avenger Is Undone By A Mute Villain
In a room, blind Shyam Rane identifies a stranger by the scrape of a shoe and the smell of rain on wool,…
Drama
The Transition (2026): A Posthumous Portrait Built on Fragments of Memory
The opening frames of Transition find Thomas Heise in 2023, camera aimed at Berlin’s Schönhauser Allee, the street that held decades of…
Action
Gandhari (2026): Taapsee Pannu Carries stands out while the narrative loses grip
Taapsee Pannu runs through dimly lit corridors with the urgency of a woman who has stopped counting the costs, but Devashish Makhija’s…
Action
The Critique (2026): A Meta-Puzzle That Confuses More Than It Cuts
The Critique arrives with an ambitious title and a promise of intellectual rigor. It positions itself as a film about the very…
Crime
Mirzapur: The Movie (2026): Pankaj Tripathi’s Kaleen Bhaiya Commands a Bloody Homecoming
Pankaj Tripathi walks into the frame with the unhurried menace of a man who owns every brick of this lawless town. The…
Comedy
Apology (2026): The Empty Frame gives the film energy despite weak payoffs
There is a particular discomfort in reviewing a film that exists only as a title and a year. Apology (2026) arrives with…
Drama
Character’s Creation (2026): A Film That Asks More Questions Than It Answers
There is a film called *Character’s Creation* that exists in a curious space, one where the available information tells us almost nothing…
Drama
Sarvagunn Sampann (2026): A Social Comedy Caught Between Its Premise and Its Payoff
Vaani Kapoor steps into a 1990s world where her face is mistaken for an adult star’s, and the film’s opening makes that…
Drama
The Abeyance (2026): The Lead Performance lifts key stretches, not the full runtime
There is a particular kind of silence that fills a theatre when a film refuses to explain itself, and The Abeyance leans…
Comedy
Bhai Tera Star Hai (2026): A Fame Satire That Forgets Its Punchlines
There is a moment in the trailer where Raghav Juyal’s Ajay Singh squares off against Sanjay Kapoor, and for a split second,…
Comedy
Dhamaal 4 (2026): A Treasure Hunt That Forgot Its Own Map
Somewhere in the middle of this 143-minute scramble, you will watch four grown men scream at each other over a map that…
Drama
Small Clouds (2026): The Broken Ship gives the film energy despite weak payoffs
The most telling image in Shubham Sumit’s *Small Clouds* is not a face, but a vessel. Two siblings inhabit a shared fantasy…
Ending Explained
THE ETERNAL MAN (2026): A Ukrainian Epic That Stretches Time Itself
There is a moment when the nine-year-old Andriy Voron first learns what it means to be a healer in 1920s Transcarpathia, and…
Hindi
Jeevan Bheema Yojana (2026): Arshad Warsi’s Double Role in a Crime-Comedy Gamble
The premise arrives with a grim, comic inevitability: a debt-ridden couple, Jeevan and Yojana, decide to fake his death for the insurance…
Crime
Babita Singh Reporting (2026): A Quiet Domestic Crime Drama Anchored by Nimisha Sajayan’s Restraint
Babita Singh Reporting opens with ASI Babita Singh stepping into her in-laws’ home for the first time, a murder case involving her…
Comedy
A TOY GUN (2026): What We Know About the Unverified Release
A Toy Gun arrives with a title that promises something small, mechanical, and possibly dangerous, but the film itself remains a mystery.…
Action
Awarapan 2 (2026): Emraan Hashmi’s Brooding Return Tests Sequel Logic
There is a moment in Awarapan 2 where Emraan Hashmi’s Shivam Pandit stands still, letting the weight of his past settle on…
Action
Batwara 1947 (2026): Sunny Deol s lands hard though the screenplay stays patchy
The trailer for Rajkumar Santoshi’s Batwara 1947 opens on a moment of raw, undiluted shock: a Muslim refugee family, freshly displaced by…
Drama
Aligned Apart (2026): A Dance of Self-Worth, But the Steps Feel Familiar
Malakos is tasked with playing a dancer whose anxiety is written across his posture before a single step is taken. He translates…
Comedy
Aryabhatt Ka Zero (2026): Himansh Kohli Carries stands out while the narrative loses grip
Baggu (Himansh Kohli) is a directionless young man trapped by low expectations. The film opens on his quiet frustration, a man who…
Comedy
Uttar Da Puttar (2026): A Vastu Comedy That’s More Lecture Than Laugh Riot
Annu Kapoor, playing a physics professor who believes Vastu and planetary positions dictate his every move, measures the doorframe of yet another…
Comedy
Max, Min and Meowzaki (2026): Opening Argument A gives the film energy despite weak payoffs
Max and Min are tearing their home apart, literally dividing every possession down the middle, when they reach an impasse over their…
Drama
HIRAETH (2026): A Hypnotic Mood Piece That Risks Alienating Its Audience
The opening shot of HIRAETH lingers. Dev (Harshit U Tewari) stands at a window, rain tracing lines down the glass, his reflection…
Drama
Simulacra (2026): A Hollow Echo of a Film That Never Finds Its Voice
Simulacra opens with a blurry digital face staring into a mirror, the reflection refusing to sync. Two minutes in, you know this…