The Great Shamsuddin Family
Comedy, Drama (Hindi)
Set over one day in Delhi, Bani, a writer, is racing against a career-defining 12-hour deadline. Mothers, aunts, cousins and former romantic interests descend on her apartment, each bringing their own emergencies and Bani has to navigate interfaith complexities, generational (more…)
Chatha Pacha
Action, Drama (Malayalam)
In the heart of Fort Kochi, three brothers and their crew of unlikely misfits stumble into the wild world of WWE-style costumed wrestling. What begins as a scrappy hustle soon explodes into a riot of masks, egos, and full-blown madness, (more…)
Kalamkaval
Crime, Drama (Malayalam)
Early 2010s. A routine Kerala Police inquiry in the quiet village of Kottayikonam takes an unexpected turn when a trail of seemingly minor clues unravels into a string of disturbing cases. The investigation soon crosses into Tamil Nadu, revealing unsolved (more…)
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2
Comedy, Romance, Drama (Hindi)
Kapil plays a man who truly loves one woman and wants to build a life with her. But things spiral out of control when he mistakenly ends up marrying three other women, each from a different religion: Muslim, Christian, and (more…)
Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos
Comedy, Action, Romance (Hindi)
Happy Patel, a chronically unsuccessful MI7 operative, is finally assigned a mission in Goa, where he uncovers his Indian roots and must rescue a high-profile scientist from crime lord Mama. Unaware of his Indian heritage and armed with a comically (more…)
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Border 2
Action, Drama, War (Hindi)
During the events of the 1971 Indo-Pak war, a new generation of young Indian warriors were getting ready to defend the nation from an even bigger threat to the Indian motherland.
Cast:
Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, Ahan Shetty, Mona Singh, Sonam Bajwa, Anya Singh, Medha Rana, Paramvir Singh Cheema, Guneet Sandhu
Director:
Anurag Singh
Sun, January 25 2026
Border 2, like its predecessor Border (1997), throws light on the Indian defense forces’ bravery during the 1971 India-Pakistan war. But unlike the 1997 film, this one focusses on different characters who took part in the war. Major Hoshiar Singh Dahiya (Varun Dhawan) of the Indian Army, Flight Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon (Diljit Dosanjh) of the Indian Air Force and Lieutenant Commander Mahendra S Rawat (Ahan Shetty) of the Indian Navy become thick friends during their training days at the National War Academy. They share a respectful relation with their trainer Lieutenant Colonel Fateh Singh Kaler (Sunny Deol).
Sun, January 25 2026
Patriotism, in its truest form, is an unexplainable emotion. If you are patriotic, you know it is largely a one-sided relationship, almost like one’s belief in God. You either feel it, or you do not. I remember discussing Laal Singh Chaddha with someone, where the titular character saves a slain Pakistani soldier purely out of humanity. The idea that brotherhood should be placed above national pride was something my head understood, not my heart. As I sat down to watch Border 2, I wished it could evoke that unadulterated feeling, which is second only to our love for kith and kin.
Sun, January 25 2026
Steal
Drama, Crime, Mystery (English)
A typical day at Lochmill Capital is upended when armed thieves burst in and force Zara and her best friend Luke to execute their demands. In the aftermath, conflicted detective Rhys races against time to find out who stole £4 billion pounds of people's pensions and why.
Cast:
Sophie Turner, Archie Madekwe, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Andrew Howard, Jonathan Slinger, Ellie James, Sarah Belcher, Thomas Larkin, Tara Summers
Director:
Hettie Macdonald
Writer:
Sotiris Nikias, Poppy Cogan, Shyam Popat
Sun, January 25 2026
Sophie Turner stars in the London heist thriller Steal, which escalates the drama with each episode. Creator and writer Sotiris Nikias takes viewers into the largest armed robbery in British history as a pension-fund investment company is looted right in their own offices. The twisty drama follows Turner’s Zara, who finds herself at the heart of the mystery and police investigation as she tries to save herself. With a small cast of characters that are hard to read, the Amazon Prime Video series Steal is a bingeable watch for the weekend.
Primate
Horror, Thriller (English)
Lucy, a college student, along with her friends, spend their vacation at her family's home in Hawaii, which includes her pet chimpanzee, Ben. However, when Ben contracts rabies after being bitten by a rabid animal, the group must fight for their lives in order to avoid the now-violent chimp.
Cast:
Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng, Charlie Mann, Tienne Simon, Miguel Hernando Torres Umba, Amina Abdi
Director:
Johannes Roberts
Writer:
Johannes Roberts, Ernest Riera
Sun, January 25 2026
The Pact
Drama (Hindi)
Returning to sell his late father's home, a successful man uncovers the small, unseen ways his father showed love, forcing him to confront the emotional distance between fathers and sons.
Cast:
Parambrata Chatterjee, Kalyanee Mulay, Jayraj Nair, Vedant Sinha, Ramesh Nair, Roshan Rajesh Chouhan, Renuka Shahane
Director:
Lakshmi R. Iyer
Writer:
Apurva Asrani
Sat, January 24 2026
राघव पुणे पहुंचा है उस फ्लैट का सौदा करने जिसमें उसका बचपन बीता था। दीवार पर उसके माता-पिता की तस्वीरें टंगी हैं। यहां उसे वे पल याद आने लगते हैं जो उसने यहां बिताए थे। खासतौर से अपने पिता के साथ अपने रिश्ते और यादों को वह सहेजता है। वह उस पैक्ट यानी इकरारनामे को भी याद करता है जो उसके और उसके पिता के बीच हुआ था। क्या था वह इकरारनामा…? फीचर फिल्मों और वेब-सीरिज़ की भीड़भाड़ में अच्छी शॉर्ट-फिल्में अक्सर छुप जाती हैं। एक वजह तो यही रहती है कि ज़्यादातर शॉर्ट-फिल्में किसी कायदे के प्लेटफॉर्म पर रिलीज़ ही नहीं हो पातीं हैं। दूसरी वजह यह कि ज़्यादातर दर्शक भी इनके प्रति उदासीन रहते हैं जबकि सच यह है कि यदि अच्छे से बुनी-बनाई कहानी हो तो वह कुछ मिनटों में भी गहरी बात कह जाती है, जैसे यह फिल्म ‘द पैक्ट’ कह रही है।
Chatha Pacha
Action, Drama (Malayalam)
In the heart of Fort Kochi, three brothers and their crew of unlikely misfits stumble into the wild world of WWE-style costumed wrestling. What begins as a scrappy hustle soon explodes into a riot of masks, egos, and full-blown madness, all set against the backdrop of a city that never plays by the rules. But can their brotherhood survive when the real fight begins outside the ropes?
Cast:
Arjun Ashokan, Roshan Mathew, Vishak Nair, Ishan Shoukath, Carmen S Mathew, Khalid Al Ameri, Lakshmi Menon, Muthumani Somasundaran, Thezni Khan, Mammootty
Director:
Adhvaith Nayar
Writer:
Sanoop Thykoodam
Sat, January 24 2026
Every minute aspect about World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestlers, ranging from their signature moves to their individual body dimensions, is imprinted in the memories of a generation that grew up in the 1990s. Debutant filmmaker Adhvaith Nayar’s Chatha Pacha attempts to tap into this enduring nostalgia of the WWE trump card-playing generation. On the surface, it appears the makers got a lot of it right, from replicating the signature moves of Undertaker and Rey Mysterio to recreating the mood of the wrestling ring with a local touch. Some of the fights in the ring have an unmistakable rhythm to them, which is further elevated by a few standout performers. But, scratch a little, and there emerges the shaky foundation, which could fall with even a weak kick, let alone a chokeslam.
Sat, January 24 2026
Sat, January 24 2026
As an audience, perhaps we underestimate the power of nostalgia done right. In what was being marketed as India’s first WWE-style wrestling movie, the makers of Chatha Pacha could easily have begun their movie as a story about a group of twenty-somethings, who start their local wrestling league just as a business idea. But the writers of the film, which includes director Advaith Nayar, decide to begin the film with a flashback of three little boys, taking on each other in their life’s first wrestling ring… their parents’ double cot.
Space Gen: Chandrayaan
Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy (Hindi)
Indian space engineers face mounting pressure to redeem themselves following the Chandrayaan 2 lunar mission's unexpected outcome.
Cast:
Nakuul Mehta, Shriya Saran, Prakash Belawadi, Gopal Datt, Danish Sait, Ankit Motghare, Udhayabanu Mageswaran
Director:
Anant Singh
Writer:
Nitin Tiwari, Shubham Sharma, Arunabh Kumar
Sat, January 24 2026
When Chandrayaan-3 nailed the first-ever soft landing on the South Pole of the moon in 2023, all I could think of was the mad scramble of studios to secure the rights to ISRO’s remarkable feat. I could almost sense it happening in real time. It didn’t take long for the child-coded euphoria to make way for an adult-coded wariness — who’s going to pitch first? Who’s going to overcook the perfectly good story? Who’s going to make the unglamorous heroes speak to each other like human ChatGPT apps? It felt inevitable, given the tailor-made ingredients: science, space, patriotism, spaced-out patriotism, a budget less than Nolan’s Interstellar, New India, first-world villains, a moon that doesn’t resemble Swiss cheese. TVF wasn’t on my Creator bingo card, but their slate has often used popular appeal to conceal themes of social conservatism and compliance over the years. Ironically, the current ‘2016 viral trend’ would flash back to TVF as the first movers and harbingers of Indian web storytelling. But space is not their jam; the future is not their cup of (mainstream) tea.
Sat, January 24 2026
Sat, January 24 2026
23 अगस्त 2023 वह ऐतिहासिक दिन है, जब भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन (ISRO) के वैज्ञानिकों ने चंद्रमा के दक्षिणी ध्रुव पर अपना विक्रम लैंडर उतारकर इतिहास रचा। वो पल जब हर भारतवासी की आंखें खुशी से चमक रही थी, सीना गर्व से चौड़ा हो गया था। भारत चंद्रमा के दक्षिणी ध्रुव पर पहुंचना वाला दुनिया का पहला देश बना। लेकिन इस सफलता से पहले इसरो के वैज्ञानिकों को जुलाई 2019 में चंद्रयान-2 की विफलता भी देखनी पड़ी थी। चंद्रयान 2 की असफलता से चंद्रयान 3 की सफलता के इसी सफर को दिखाती है, TVF की यह नई वेब सीरीज ‘स्पेस जेन: चंद्रयान’।
Die My Love
Drama (English)
After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
Cast:
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, Gabrielle Rose, Clare Coulter, Sarah Lind, Luke Camilleri, Victor Zinck, Jr.
Director:
Lynne Ramsay
Sat, January 24 2026
The Great Shamsuddin Family
Comedy, Drama (Hindi)
Set over one day in Delhi, Bani, a writer, is racing against a career-defining 12-hour deadline. Mothers, aunts, cousins and former romantic interests descend on her apartment, each bringing their own emergencies and Bani has to navigate interfaith complexities, generational conflicts and family expectations as she faces a dilemma, which could change her life.
Cast:
Kritika Kamra, Juhi Babbar, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Sheeba Chaddha, Farida Jalal, Dolly Ahluwalia, Natasha Rastogi, Purab Kohli, Nishank Verma, Joyeeta Dutta
Director:
Anusha Rizvi
Writer:
Anusha Rizvi
Sat, January 24 2026
Farida Jalal didn’t grey her hair overnight. She’s been acting in movies since the 1960s. Since DDLJ, she’s been a sweet, endearing presence in Hindi films, buffing up large ensembles with her nourishing warmth. At 75, she’s a grande dame in the tradition of Zohra Sehgal and Nafisa Ali. Yet like those greats, Jalal is very much her own actor—as Shyam Benegal’s Mammo proved. Her new film, The Great Shamsuddin Family, directed by Anusha Rizvi, is also an ensemble comedy, with Jalal billed behind everyone else. Yet it only sparks to life when the actor joins the fray.
Mon, December 22 2025
Bani Ahmed (Kritika Kamra) wants to write. With just 12 hours to submit an application that may land her a job in the United States, she finds herself interrupted by the doorbell. Continuously. Each subsequent ring sees the arrival of a member of the Shamsuddin clan. There’s her easily gullible and recently divorced cousin Iram (Shreya Dhanwanthary); an over-intellectual ex (Purab Kohli) and his latest young girlfriend; another cousin in Humaira (Juhi Babbar Soni); inquisitive and opinionated aunts (Dolly Ahluwalia and Farida Jalal); another cousin and his bride-to-be. Simply said, Bani just cannot catch a break.
Mon, December 15 2025
Racing towards a 24-hour deadline to submit a presentation which will hopefully get her into a top US university, Bani Ahmad (Kritika Kamra) settles down to it, but she hasn’t taken into account her family, and friends: the door-bell rings with an unexpected visitor, and within a few minutes, the trickle into a flood, and it’s full-blown mayhem. Anusha Rizvi’s second directorial feature, 15 years after rural satire ‘Peepli Live’, circles back to the city, with one day in the life of a Delhi-based comfortably-off Muslim family. It’s the kind of family we almost never see in mainstream Hindi cinema, because usually a Muslim character is safely tacked on to the periphery, biding his or her time for when the script bothers to remember them, and even that kind of tokenism has been steadily erased over these past years.
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2
Comedy, Romance, Drama (Hindi)
Kapil plays a man who truly loves one woman and wants to build a life with her. But things spiral out of control when he mistakenly ends up marrying three other women, each from a different religion: Muslim, Christian, and Hindu.
Cast:
Kapil Sharma, Manjot Singh, Jamie Lever, Tridha Choudhury, Parul Gulati, Sushant Singh, Ayesha Khan, Hira Warina, Akhilendra Mishra, Asrani
Director:
Anukalp Goswami
Writer:
Anukalp Goswami
Sat, January 24 2026
You’ve watched Dhurandhar. You’ve watched Tere Ishk Mein. You’ve watched Haq. You wouldn’t admit it, but you’ve also watched The Taj Story. Now you want to fold the year in peace. How about a silly Kapil Sharma comedy? I hadn’t seen the trailer for Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 and went in expecting more of the same: a tumescent comedy about a man with many wives, with no wars or social unrest to worry about, no particular politics to propagate. The first film, released in 2015, was some form of a hit. Surely the sequel will abide?
Sat, December 13 2025
कपिल शर्मा कॉमेडी की दुनिया के धुरंधर हैं। बचकानी हरकतों और बातों से भी ऑडियंस को हंसा ले जाने की कला वह जानते हैं और यही काम वह अपनी फिल्म ‘किस किसको प्यार करूं 2’ में भी कर रहे हैं। यह फिल्म उनकी 2015 में आई डेब्यू फिल्म ‘किस किसको प्यार करूं’ का सीक्वल है, जिसमें वह तीन बीवियों के फेर में फंस जाते हैं। लेकिन कैसे? इस बात में लॉजिक ढूंढने की गलती, गलती से भी ना कीजिएगा।
Sat, December 13 2025
10 साल से ऊपर हो गए जब कॉमेडी के लिए चर्चित कपिल शर्मा बतौर हीरो अपनी पहली फिल्म ‘किस किस को प्यार करूं’ लेकर आए थे। उस फिल्म में उन्होंने एक ऐसे युवक की भूमिका निभाई थी जिसे मजबूरी में तीन शादियां करनी पड़ती हैं और अब वह अपनी पसंद की लड़की से चौथा ब्याह रचाने जा रहा है। उस फिल्म में रोमांस की हल्की खुशबू के साथ कॉमेडी का तड़का था और दर्शकों ने उस फिल्म पर अपनी पसंदगी का ठप्पा भी लगाया था। यह फिल्म ‘किस किस को प्यार करूं 2’ उसी कड़ी की अगली फिल्म है। लेकिन यह उसका सीक्वेल नहीं है बल्कि लगभग उसी कहानी पर फिर से बनाई गई फिल्म है-कुछ अलग तड़के के साथ
The Rip
Action, Thriller, Crime (English)
Trust frays when a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a run-down stash house, calling everyone — and everything — into question.
Cast:
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sasha Calle, Kyle Chandler, Scott Adkins, Daisuke Tsuji, Nestor Carbonell
Director:
Joe Carnahan
Thu, January 22 2026
Cognitive bias based on the positive traits of a person often makes human psychology assume that the individual in question has other unrelated qualities that are also likable. This is the ‘Halo Effect’. The Halo Effect, by association, extends itself to assuming that if you like a person, you tend to start liking (sometimes, not always) those he or she associates with, even if you may not have had a good impression of them in the first place. That happens with me when it comes to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. I like Damon — actor, human, overall great guy, et al. Affleck — sporadically interesting on screen, controversial off it, perpetual hangdog demeanour — I am not a fan of. But I always enjoy watching the two together. One of Hollywood’s strongest, lasting friendships makes for a great creative partnership — as co-actors, co-producers, co-writers — meeting as they did 45 years ago when Damon was 10 and Affleck two years younger. They even have an Oscar together, and their joint interviews are tinged with warmth, wit, charm and congeniality.
Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos
Comedy, Action, Romance (Hindi)
Happy Patel, a chronically unsuccessful MI7 operative, is finally assigned a mission in Goa, where he uncovers his Indian roots and must rescue a high-profile scientist from crime lord Mama. Unaware of his Indian heritage and armed with a comically British accent, Happy’s blunders trigger a string of chaotic mishaps that could lead him to expose a criminal network.
Cast:
Vir Das, Mona Singh, Mithila Palkar, Sharib Hashmi, Srushti Tawade, Aamir Khan, Imran Khan
Director:
Vir Das, Kavi Shastri
Writer:
Vir Das, Amogh Ranadive
Wed, January 21 2026
The directorial debut of Vir Das and Kavi Shastri, Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos, introduces us to Happy—played by Das himself—a 34-year-old, UK-based wannabe secret agent whose most dangerous skill is assembling a sandwich so good it brings joy to his British dads. He is earnest, clumsy, and armed with optimism rather than competence. Naturally, chaos follows. Written by Vir Das and Amogh Ranadive, the 121-minute film operates on hope—hope that a goofy British spy of Indian origin can carry a full-blown absurdist comedy. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it really, really hopes it works.
Mon, January 19 2026
Sun, January 18 2026
Comedy is serious business – and not everybody can get that right. The gags could be physical (think of ‘thoda khao thoda pheko’, in Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, (1983) or any Bustor Keaton, Charlie Chaplin film), situational like Chupke Chupke (1975) or a Golmaal (1979) that got everything right. Then we had the Kadar Khan Shakti Kapoor comedy in the 80s & 90s and Aamir Khan Productions own Delhi Belly (2011) had some funny situations.
Kalamkaval
Crime, Drama (Malayalam)
Early 2010s. A routine Kerala Police inquiry in the quiet village of Kottayikonam takes an unexpected turn when a trail of seemingly minor clues unravels into a string of disturbing cases. The investigation soon crosses into Tamil Nadu, revealing unsolved mysteries that have lingered for years.
Cast:
Vinayakan, Mammootty, Gibin Gopinath, Gayatri Arun, Rajisha Vijayan, Azees Nedumangad, Malavika Menon, Babu Ramachandran, Aravind Deepu, Bibin Perumbily
Director:
Jithin K Jose
Writer:
Jithin K Jose, Jishnu Sreekumar
Mon, January 19 2026
Kalamkaval—the new investigative thriller in which Mammootty plays a serial killer—is a dull, dour, and deeply frustrating film. We talk about director Jithin K. Jose’s indisciplined screenplay, which repeats the same information over and over again as if it knows audiences are going to tune out. We also discuss its lack of interest in the killer’s victims, whom it treats as mere plot devices. We find that the performances of the two leads are entirely mismatched, and the movie is more interested in pulling the rug from under the audience’s feet than examining why people do what they do.
Mon, January 19 2026
Kalamkaval—the new investigative thriller in which Mammootty plays a serial killer—is a dull, dour, and deeply frustrating film. We talk about director Jithin K. Jose’s indisciplined screenplay, which repeats the same information over and over again as if it knows audiences are going to tune out. We also discuss its lack of interest in the killer’s victims, whom it treats as mere plot devices. We find that the performances of the two leads are entirely mismatched, and the movie is more interested in pulling the rug from under the audience’s feet than examining why people do what they do.
Thu, December 11 2025
It’s one thing to make a biography or documentary on an over-exposed crime episode. It’s another to sprinkle it with cinematic liberties and hope it magically transforms into a chilling superstar saga. Jithin K. Jose’s debut feature Kalamkaval attempts the latter and ends up as an engaging yet deeply implausible effort that feels dystopian. Tragically so, because almost nothing in its setup or screenplay reflects the conservative, observant, and perpetually inquisitive social fabric of Kerala.