Vaazha II
Comedy, Drama, Action (Malayalam)
Four friends – Hashir, Alan, Ajin and Vinayak – are considered losers and troublemakers by parents, family and the school management. They face immense social pressure as they reach adulthood, embarking them on an emotional journey of self discovery and (more…)
Maamla Legal Hai S02
Comedy, Drama (Hindi)
Chaos collides with the letter of the law at District Court Patparganj, where quirky employees work to uphold justice — but not without a few objections. (more…)
Maa Ka Sum
Comedy (Hindi)
Agastya, a math prodigy, believes every problem has a formula - even love. When he sets out to find the perfect match for his mother, his algorithm-fueled adventure spirals into a hilarious tangle of bad dates, big feelings, and one (more…)
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Kaakee Circus
Comedy, Crime, Mystery (Tamil)
A small town in Tamil Nadu wakes up to chaos when a temple donation box is stolen from the sub-jail. Soon, the investigation led by two eccentric policemen unravels secrets more than they can handle.
Cast:
Subash Selvam, Munishkanth, Rajesh Madhavan, Gauthami Nair, Vinsu Rachel Sam, Nakkalites Savithiri, Abdool Lee, Maruthupandian, Rakesh Ushar, Vigneshwar Suresh
Director:
Ameen Barif
Writer:
Ameen Barif
Sat, April 11 2026
After a security breach in a small jail, a thief sneaks inside to steal a locked donation box. Two very different police officers, Anbuchelvan and Arjun, try to solve the crime, but things get messy when local YouTubers start filming everything for views. Between the weird prisoners and the media circus, the officers struggle to catch the clever thief who is using all the noise and confusion to stay hidden. Munishkanth appears at home as a laidback officer on the verge of retirement; it’s a role tailor-made for him. He’s alright, but it honestly doesn’t feel like a surprise. Subash Selvam, playing an ambitious constable, is more agile and enjoys stepping into the shoes of his role, hardly going overboard.
Youth
Comedy, Romance, Drama (Tamil)
Youth follows Praveen, a 15-year-old boy who enters adolescence determined to find true love before school ends. As he goes through multiple relationships and heartbreaks, he slowly begins to understand what love truly means. Along the way, the experiences shape his growth, maturity, and outlook on life.
Cast:
Ken Karunaas, Anishma Anilkumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Devadarshini, Meenakshi Dinesh, Priyanshi Yadav, Abison Thevarasa, Sarath, Eshwar Santhanalakshmi, Nalini
Director:
Ken Karunaas
Writer:
Ken Karunaas
Fri, April 10 2026
Ken Karunas’s debut film is 'self-aware' enough to see its flaws, but not brave enough to fix them
Over the years, Tamil cinema has trained the mass audience to always root for the loser. For example, Maan Karate’s protagonist, Peter (Sivakarthikeyan), is the poster boy for this brand of hero. In essence, Peter has no redeeming qualities. He is a lazy and incompetent bloke who lives off a gang that has a premonition that he will win a boxing contest. For a villain, the film features a character who has toiled his entire life to become a professional boxer. Yet, the film encourages the audience to back the hero because he is supposed to be relatable to the masses. Isn’t it easy to imagine a person winning in life without any effort?
Vaazha II
Comedy, Drama, Action (Malayalam)
Four friends – Hashir, Alan, Ajin and Vinayak – are considered losers and troublemakers by parents, family and the school management. They face immense social pressure as they reach adulthood, embarking them on an emotional journey of self discovery and acceptance, where they finally learn to take up their responsibilities and find success
Cast:
Hashir, Alan Bin Siraj, Ajin Joy, Vinayak, Alphonse Puthren, Sudheesh, Vijay Babu, Vinod Kedamangalam, Raveendran, Ameen
Director:
Savin Sa
Writer:
Vipin Das
Fri, April 10 2026
Mon, April 6 2026
The film borrows part of its template from the successful first part, especially the story of youths losing their way and messing up their future, but it adds a lot more too
A little while into Vaazha 2: Biopic of a Billion Bros, one gets the feeling of being taken from one neatly engineered event to the next. Rather than one overarching narrative, the anticipation and excitement are all concentrated into shorter bursts, with each such sequence having an inherent rhythm, with a slow buildup and then a crescendo, when either all hell breaks loose or emotions overflow in a torrent, as it happens in the latter half.
Fri, April 3 2026
The film surrounds itself with so much of the ordinary that the images we see on screen begin to feel like they are ours.
There aren’t many filmmakers out there with as honest an understanding of the growing-up years as Vipin Das does. We see him begin most of his scripts by introducing us to his lead characters as children, often taking us into an aspect of their childhood that might not feel like much. This could be something as innocent as us joining Jaya on her walk to school through cashew plantations in Jaya Jaya Jaya Hain (2022). Vaazha: The Biopic Of A Billion Boys too begins in school with the formation of what appears to be an unlikely friendship. Its leads may come from different places and backgrounds, but these boys have a way of finding their gang during the strangest of events.
The Drama
Romance, Comedy (English)
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
Cast:
Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, Hailey Benton Gates, Sydney Lemmon, Hannah Gross, Anna Baryshnikov, Jordyn Curet, Michael Abbott Jr.
Director:
Kristoffer Borgli
Writer:
Kristoffer Borgli
Wed, April 8 2026
It could be argued that Krisstofer Borgli’s film has too much fun with the premise, turning it into a psychological comedy of sorts.
One of my favourite scenes in Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road (2008) – starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet – is when April (Winslet) greets Frank (DiCaprio) for breakfast, after a colossal fight the night before, during which things were said that neither can ever take back. As she (much to his surprise) performs her part of a ‘supportive’ wife, while he riffs on his role as the polite, clueless breadwinner of the family, the quiet breakfast – a symbol of suburban bliss – begins to feel suffocating and emotionally claustrophobic. Both Winslet and DiCaprio act the hell out of this scene, playing the wounded, flawed couple trying to deflect from the unpleasantness of their once-loving marriage, hoping things would get back to normal with time.
Sat, April 4 2026
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple whose impending wedding is threatened by a wild revelation
Long before The Drama unveils its central conflict, the filmmaking clues us in on where we’re headed. Kristoffer Borgli’s film opens with a Hitchcockian closeup of Zendaya’s ear. The camera stalks and skulks. The ambient sound fades in and out. Robert Pattinson spies, stammers, lies. It’s a meet-cute, but the tone is just shy of psychological horror. With days to go for their wedding, Charlie (Pattinson) and Emma take their friends Mike (Mamoudou Athie) and Rachel (Alana Haim) to dinner. Several drinks in, they stumble into a truth game: each person will tell the group the worst thing they’ve ever done. Charlie’s and Mike’s confessions are fairly innocuous; Rachel’s is more shocking (locking a developmentally challenged child in a shed overnight). All the while, Emma looks distinctly uncomfortable. But she’s too drunk to lie, and admits that, when she was 15, she’d planned a school shooting, opting out only at the last moment.
Sat, April 4 2026
The Drama, written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, certainly lives up to its title—but not in a way that works to its advantage. There is no shortage of drama here, but what value does it hold when you feel absolutely nothing for the people at the center of it?
Maamla Legal Hai S02
Comedy, Drama (Hindi)
Chaos collides with the letter of the law at District Court Patparganj, where quirky employees work to uphold justice — but not without a few objections.
Cast:
Ravi Kishan, Nidhi Bisht, Anant Joshi
Sat, April 4 2026
The Patparganj gang returns with sharper satire and deeper heart to uphold the spirit of law.
Delhi’s Patparganj District Court is back in session, and this time the madness has escalated into full-blown judicial chaos. If the first season of Maamla Legal Hai proved that Indian district courtrooms can be funnier than a stand-up special, the second season takes the gavel and runs with it, balancing sharp social commentary with genuine rib-tickling comedy with a layer of introspection in between.
Sat, April 4 2026
To package wisdom and social commentary in a show with a quintessential delightful flavour remains the franchise’s biggest triumph
Courts, we presume, are dreary places of extreme decorum and discipline. Yet they can provide much fodder for merriment, as has been shown in umpteen films and most delectably in the Ravi Kishan-starrer web series ‘Maamla Legal Hai’. As it rolls on to the second season, the idea is still the same: to reflect upon thorny legal battles — actually, social issues — with humour. If you believe first time is the real charm, to begin with, the second outing of ‘Maamla Legal Hai’ may not seem as much fun. But soon enough, it finds its feet, just as the main protagonist Visheshwar D Tyagi (Ravi Kishan) does in his newly elevated position of Principle Judge of Patparganj district court.
Fri, April 3 2026
कोर्ट-कचहरी की दुनिया के अजब-गजब केस, काले कोट वाले वकील, उनके साम, दाम, दंड, भेद वाले दांव-पेंच, और ढेर सारा ड्रामा। साल 2024 में वेब सीरीज ‘मामला लीगल है’ ने इन सारे तत्वों को एकसाथ पिरोकर दर्शकों का खूब दिल जीता था। इसलिए, पटपड़गंज सेशन कोर्ट और उसके अतरंगी किरदारों की ये कहानी अपने दूसरे सीजन में बढ़ चली है। चूंकि, इस बार कहानी के मुख्य किरदार विशेश्वर दयाल उर्फ वीडी त्यागी (रवि किशन) वकील का काला कोट उतारकर, कोर्ट के प्रमुख जिला जज की कुर्सी पर विराजमान हो चुके हैं, तो सीरीज भी जज साहब की जिम्मेदारियों, चुनौतियों और दुविधाओं पर ज्यादा फोकस करती है। इस कारण वकीलों की जद्दोजहद और कोर्ट रूम में गरमागरम जिरह वाला पहलू इस बार थोड़ा कमजोर रह गया है।
Leader
Action, Drama (Tamil)
An ordinary man becomes trapped between warring criminal factions and law enforcement, forcing him to use his wits to survive while shielding his loved ones from the deadly crossfire that threatens to consume them all.
Cast:
Arul Saravanan, Shaam, Andrea Jeremiah, Santhosh Prathap, Payal Rajput, Lal, Amritha Aiyer, VTV Ganesh, Baby Iyal, Kumar Natarajan
Director:
R. S. Durai Senthilkumar
Fri, April 3 2026
Despite the random and unnecessary detours, Leader gets its basics right, and never gives you time to put on your logic-tinted glasses
Vanity. A few years back, business magnate Saravanan decided to be the face of his multi-million-dollar empire. He was plastered across TV ads, in newspapers, and on YouTube. The next ideal step was to take up the political route or don the greasepaint. Saravanan decided to become an actor. And then… he rechristened himself as Legend Saravanan, and made his acting debut with… wait for it… Legend. It was heavily trolled for its content, his performance, and everything else in between. Four years later, Legend Saravanan has come back to collect his dues with Leader, under the aegis of director RS Durai Senthilkumar. He embarks on a path to redemption courtesy a clever director, a compelling script, a convincing ensemble, carefree masala-cinema sensibilities, and, of course, good ol’ money.
Fri, April 3 2026
Despite its enjoyable silliness, the film starring Legend Saravanan is so stern that it doesn’t even try to get us on its side.
Of all the years of film-viewing, I never imagined I’d require visual descriptions (VD) to understand what an actor is trying to convey. RS Senthilkumar’s Leader, starring ‘Legend’ Saravanan, is best watched when the bottom half of your screen presents you with descriptions that tell you things as obvious as “he notices car”, “opens the door”, “closes the door”, “looks emotionally” and many more. One can argue that these were added for the benefit of those with hearing impairments to underscore imagery, but when the lead actor is Legend Saravanan, these descriptions become a crutch to help you understand the hidden meanings behind his expressions.
Neelira
Drama (Tamil)
A wedding eve in 1988 Sri Lanka turns into a hostage standoff when Indian Army soldiers occupy a family's home overnight.
Cast:
Naveen Chandra, Sananth, Kapila Venu, Roopa Koduvayur, Vidhu, Sidhu kumaresan, Vincent Nakul
Director:
Someetharan
Writer:
Someetharan
Fri, April 3 2026
It is not that a film on the Sri Lankan war must depict all its excesses, but when 'Neelira' forcibly side-steps it, the film’s intentional blind spots turn its vision into a fish-eye
Neelira takes place over one night. There is a note at the end of the film, text on screen, that transcribes the long, arduous journey, from Sri Lanka to Europe, that now lies ahead for one of the characters—Vasuki. That text, pregnant with odyssey, suddenly made the film come alive for a brief second. Then, the film ends. Set in 1988, in Northern Srilanka, Neelira, the first Tamil feature directed by a Sri Lankan Tamilian, begins with the preparation for Vasuki’s wedding—including the logistics of getting permission from the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) and the Sri Lankan army, though we don’t see a scene with the latter. Have they ceded control to the IPFK in this narrative?
Fri, April 3 2026
Director Someetharan's Neelira, starring Naveen Chandra, Roopa Koduvayur and Sananth Reddy, is a chamber drama set in the thick of the Sri Lankan civil war. The film is a straight-forward documentation of the effects of war on the lives of commoners.
There is a scene in director Someetharan’s Neelira where a group of children is playing outdoors in the midst of the Sri Lankan civil war in 1988. One of them blurts," What’s a game without guns?," as they indulge in a shooting game. It takes only one scene to put everything into context. These are children who should be playing hopscotch or hide-and-seek. Instead, they are thinking about shooting each other.
Biker
Adventure, Drama (Telugu)
Adrenaline-fueled motocross racers navigate dangerous competitions and face intense challenges on their bikes.
Cast:
Sharwanand, Dr. Rajasekhar, Malavika Nair, Shashank, Atul Kulkarni, Brahmaji
Director:
Abhilash Reddy
Writer:
Abhilash Reddy, MVS Bharadwaj, Shravan Madala
Fri, April 3 2026
Motocross gives a new turn to the familiar beats in director Abhilash Reddy’s emotionally-steeped sports drama, and Sharwanand reclaims his spot under the sun
There are times when a filmmaker chooses to not reinvent the wheel or the story, to be precise. But a new setting lets it breathe. The broad contours of the storyline, sub plots and character arcs in director Abhilash Reddy’s Telugu sports drama, Biker are familiar. Motocross, a sport that has rarely or perhaps never been explored in Indian cinema, gives it a new sheen. The cutting-edge audio-visual landscape and worthwhile performances make it fairly engaging.
Maa Ka Sum
Comedy (Hindi)
Agastya, a math prodigy, believes every problem has a formula - even love. When he sets out to find the perfect match for his mother, his algorithm-fueled adventure spirals into a hilarious tangle of bad dates, big feelings, and one unexpected discovery: sometimes love can't be calculated, only felt.
Cast:
Mihir Ahuja, Angira Dhar, Ranveer Brar, Mona Singh, Manish Anand
Director:
Nicholas Kharkongor
Writer:
Sumrit Shahi, Nicholas Kharkongor, Vinay Choudary, Heena D’Souza
Fri, April 3 2026
The eight-part show is certainly better than many others that are being cranked out from streaming factories, but it is also true that it turns out to be a mixed bag, with the sparkly bits interspersed with those which are flat.
Maths nerd Agastya aka Gast (Mihir Ahuja) has his heart set upon seeing his single mom Vinita aka Vinnie (Mona Singh) ‘settled’, so he’s in search of that perfect algorithm that will lead to a perfect match. In all the adding and subtracting, he forgets that humans are still the sum of their gloriously imperfect parts. No artificial intelligence can crack ‘em. At least not yet, fingers tightly crossed.
Fri, April 3 2026
When it's not spouting excessive maths jargon -- algorithm alone is uttered a zillion times -- too many characters with too little context crowd the scenes and turn Maa Ka Sum into a slog
We’ve seen Shah Rukh Khan’s pre-teen daughter gatecrash a wedding to get her dad remarried in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Akshaye Khanna endeavour to reunite his widowed father to his childhood sweetheart in Mere Baap Pehle Aap and Ayushmann Khurana embrace the idea of his mom’s need for companionship in Doctor G. Maa Ka Sum draws out on similar single-parent child psychology in the story of a teen mathematics genius using his skills to create a perfect match for his lonesome mom. Except there’s a dark side to his purpose. He doesn’t just wish to see his mother happy with somebody but also make that choice for her.
Fri, April 3 2026
Maa Ka Sum sets out to explore love through logic. Directed by Nicholas Kharkongor and written by Ravinder Randhawa and Sumrit Shahi, the Prime Video series is about a 19-year-old mathematics prodigy trying to “solve” relationships and matchmaking through equations and algorithms. Agastya (Mihir Ahuja) is on a mission to find the perfect partner for his single mother Vinita (Mona Singh). Their relationship is framed as unusually close, almost idealised, but quickly reveals a troubling co-dependence. Boundaries are virtually non-existent, with Agastya assuming the role of decision-maker in his mother’s romantic life, prioritising data and outcomes over her autonomy and feelings.
Super Duperr
(Marathi)
When a deceitful agent sells the same house twice, a modern couple and a village family must somehow share a roof and their very different worlds.
Cast:
Lalit Prabhakar, Vidula Chougule, Namrata Awate Sambherao, Kushal Badrike, Jagruti Datir
Director:
Sameer Asha Patil
Writer:
Sameer Asha Patil
Fri, April 3 2026
Super Duperr is a Marathi movie based on a conflict between two families that are poles apart. Rohit (Lalit Prabhakar) and Isha (Vidula Chougule) are a live-in couple from Mumbai. They are deeply in love but aren’t thinking about marriage. Rohit and Isha are struggling to make a mark in the field of singing and acting respectively. Once when they host a wild party at their rented apartment with their friends, they are forced to vacate the society as it doesn’t go down well with its members.
Bait
Comedy (English)
Shah Latif is a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime, only to find himself thrust into a full blown existential crisis and trippy conspiracy thriller all at the same time.
Cast:
Riz Ahmed
Fri, April 3 2026
Riz Ahmed's new series Bait delivers a bitingly humorous, and topical commentary on a British-Pakistani actor's audacious journey auditioning for James Bond, challenging traditional casting norms and exploring complex themes of identity and representation.
A brown Bond may not be on the British bingo card… Until Riz Ahmed challenges the status quo as a struggling British-Pakistani actor auditioning for 007, following Daniel Craig’s departure in Bait’s six episodes of marvelously meta, humorous and unabashedly topical commentary. There are no shortage of actors vying for the role of the ‘white neo-colonial MI6 agent’, including Idris Elba and Regé-Jean Page.
Wed, April 1 2026
The British series is part satire, part wish-fulfilment and part introspection.
In a way, it’s brilliant that actor Riz Ahmed delves into one of Hollywood’s (and Britain’s) most pressing cultural voids – Who will be the next James Bond? – and inserts himself into it. In Bait, a six-episode miniseries, Ahmed plays an emerging Pakistani-British actor having an existential moment when he’s announced as a contender to be the next 007. In a series that is part wish-fulfilment, part introspection, part satire and part surreal coming-of-age tale, Ahmed meditates on his place in Hollywood, in modern British society and if his immigrant trauma will even lends itself to playing the poised, suave, and, till now, white, neo-colonial MI6 agent.
XO Kitty S03
Comedy, Drama (English)
Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she'll soon realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it's your own heart on the line.
Cast:
Anna Cathcart, Choi Min-yeong, Gia Kim, Sang Heon Lee, Anthony Keyvan, Regan Aliyah, Peter Thurnwald, Philippe Lee, Sule Thelwell, Shin Hojo
Fri, April 3 2026
The breezy coming-of-age teenage drama delves into the group's bonds of friendship and love in their final year at KISS
The Netflix spinoff series XO, Kitty follows Kitty Song Covey’s adventures as she goes abroad to Seoul, South Korea for love and family. Kitty has come far since she first landed clueless in The City of Palaces. But since then, she has found her place at the Korean Independent School of Seoul (KISS). However, the friendship group is growing up and thinking about their future in the third season. With new showrunner Valentina Garza injecting new energy into the season, the show takes some much-needed steps ahead. Now in Season 3, XO, Kitty is still relying on the power of the To All The Boys franchise to pull in viewers.