As February winds down, the theatrical calendar is front-loaded on Friday, February 27, 2026, with a wide mix of Hollywood horror, international festival cinema, and Indian regional releases (Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada).
February 27, 2026: The Big Friday Drop
- Hamnet (English) – A period drama centred on Agnes and William Shakespeare after the death of their son Hamnet, exploring grief and survival in 16th-century England. The India listing shows Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in the lead cast, with Chloé Zhao credited as director on the listing.
- The Secret Agent (Portuguese) – A crime/period/political thriller set in 1977: a technology expert returns to Recife seeking peace, only to realise the city isn’t the refuge he hoped for. BookMyShow’s cast listing highlights Wagner Moura.
- Scream 7 (English) – The meta-slasher franchise returns, with BookMyShow’s synopsis placing Sidney back at the centre as a new Ghostface threat targets her family; the listing names Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox among the cast.
- The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond (Hindi, Telugu) – A social drama tracking three young women across three states, where romance shifts into coercion and captivity—before they fight back.
- Nukkad Naatak (Hindi) – It’s a comedy-drama about two misfit best friends who, after being expelled for robbing their college canteen, try to redeem themselves by enrolling five children from a nearby slum into school.
- Masthishka Maranam (Malayalam) – A genre-blender (comedy/sci-fi/thriller) where a grieving father enters a VR memory game and uncovers a devastating secret tied to a world-famous idol.
- Fourth Floor (Tamil) – It a psychological thriller: Dheeran checks into a secluded guest house, unsettling events and vivid dreams blur reality, and the clues tie back to his past and his former lover.
- The Rise of Ashoka (Kannada, Telugu + 1 more language on listing) – It’s about an oppressed barber community in Avarathi and a young man named Ashoka rising against a brutal broker.
- Vishnu Vinyasam (Telugu) – This movie revolves around a numerology-obsessed lecturer whose romance collides with a frightening marriage belief.
- Viyaah Kartaare Da (Punjabi) – This movie is about a man who fakes his corrupt father’s death to inherit his police job—until the father wakes up and chaos erupts. Cast listing includes Gippy Grewal and Nimrat Khaira.
- Aazhi (Tamil) – A drama-romance-thriller set in Nagercoil: a father discovers his daughter’s relationship, and a solitary journey into the open sea becomes a reckoning that reshapes choices and responsibility.
- Maya (Marathi) – A relationship drama: physiotherapist Maya, shaped by past betrayal, is pulled into a new emotional crossroads through a cynical patient (Mahesh) and his hopeful son (Siddharth).
- Veera Kambala (Kannada) – 60-year-old Ramanna tries to revive the long-abandoned Kambala to fulfil his mother’s wish and heal a decades-old feud, while conspiracies and rivalries threaten the event.
- Laagni No Melo (Gujarati) – A romance-to-marriage journey for Shubh and Shraddha, testing whether love holds through financial strain and emotional pressure.
A Week of Diversity on the Big Screen
This week isn’t defined by a single “one big release”—it’s a mosaic: a Shakespearean grief drama, a new Ghostface chapter, a politically tinged international thriller, and a strong spread of Indian stories across languages and genres. For audiences craving variety on the big screen, Feb 27, 2026 is the date to circle.
By – Sonali