Movies & OTT
The latest movies & ott stories from GIST.
Ramayana has sold ₹34 crore of tickets before Day 1. The first viewers are less united
Four days before release, Nitesh Tiwari's epic is pre-selling like a festival film, at nearly double Animal's ticket price. The LA premiere crowd loved the scale and argued about the soul.
Jailer 2 is now the biggest Tamil film ever, and it got there without North India's big multiplexes
Rajinikanth's sequel crossed ₹700 crore worldwide in 11 days. The Hindi market barely showed up, and that story is about streaming windows, not star power.
Rahul Bose on Udta Teer: dialogue-free slapstick as a CTS chief in a coma
Rahul Bose says most of Udta Teer's wildest physical comedy was improvised, and explains why the director wanted the actor nobody expects to be funny.
Drishyam 3: ₹176.5 crore in three days, and Ajay Devgn's biggest Monday ever
The Hindi finale of the franchise is 2026's second-biggest Hindi opening weekend. And yes, there were two Drishyam 3s this year.