Satyaprem Ki Katha
Date: 29th June
Director: Sameer Vidwans
Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani
Slated as a musical rom-com, Satyaprem Ki Katha has Aaryan and Advani sharing screen once again after Anees Bazmee’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (2022). The cast includes Supriya Pathak and Gajraj Rao.
Animal
Date: August
Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna and Parineeti Chopra
A gangster film that weaves an intricate web between its characters, Animal follows the journey of the protagonist who finds himself becoming a beast. The poster shows Ranbir Kapoor in his beast mode, which clearly involves bulging biceps, blood spatter, a cigarette and an axe.
Salaar
Date: 28th September
Director: Prashanth Neel
Cast: Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Haasan, Jagapathi Babu
The director of K.G.F: Chapters 1 and 2 (2018 and 2022, respectively) join forces with the hero of Baahubali. It doesn’t get more explosive than this — or so hope Prabhas and his fandom. After the listless box office performance of Saaho (2019) and Radhe Shyam (2022), the actor needs a big hit.
SRI
Date: October
Director: Tushar Hiranandani
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Alaya F, Jyothika, Sharad Kelkar
Based on the life of industrialist Srikant Bholla, Sri follows his journey from being the first international visually impaired pupil to study Management Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to establishing Bollant Industries. Bholla is co-directing Sri, and Jagdeep Sindhu has written it.
Sam Bahadur
Date: 1st December
Director: Meghna Gulzar
Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra
Meghna Gulzar’s historical film is inspired by the life of Sam Manekshaw, Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It’s the second time we’ll see Vicky Kaushal working with Gulzar in a film set in this period. Raazi (2018), which unfolded just before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, was the first.
Dunki
Date: 22nd December
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Boman Irani
Rajkumar Hirani’s Dunki revolves around the unchecked use of the ‘Donkey Flight’ (an illegal way of entering a foreign country via multiple stops in other countries) by Indians to immigrate to countries like Canada and the United States of America.