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There’s a moment in the trailer where Sanjay Vishwanath, an accomplished international shooter, stands frozen at a range, the rifle suddenly feeling heavier than it ever has, age and doubt creeping into a hand that once knew only precision. That single image carries more dramatic weight than most of what follows in Venky Atluri’s sprawling family drama, a film that announces ...

An elderly Hindu woman sits stubbornly in a Lahore home that a Muslim refugee family has just been allotted, and the silence between them carries the weight of a subcontinent tearing itself apart. That single image, the moral standoff between Shabana Azmi’s Mai and the displaced Mirza family, is the engine of Rajkumar Santoshi’s Batwara 1947 – a Partition dra...

The opening frames find Deepu packing his village life into a single bag, heading to the city with the vague but burning ambition of becoming a hero. It is a classic small-town-to-metropolis setup, one that promises comedy, romance, and the inevitable friction between who he is and who he wants to be. Sandeep Bedra’s Kannada-Tulu bilingual, however, stretches this lean premis...

The trailer’s warning rings with cold finality: “Don’t enter that forest, son. No one has made it out of that forest.” Veera, played by Ashraf A, hears it and walks in anyway, camera slung like a weapon against the unknown.

This is a thriller that understands dread lives in what we cannot see, not in what jumps out at us.

The trailer introduces Neel in the aftermath of a breakup and a job loss, and Arham Jain plays him as a man who has gone quiet rather than loud. His emotional collapse is rendered through subdued, internalized reactions, the kind of performance that asks you to lean in rather than sit back.

Jain’s key function is carrying the film’s sense of dislocation, and he does so...