Films To Watch In 2025: Yash's 'Toxic' And Salman Khan's 'Sikandar' To Rajinikanth's 'Coolie' And Kamal Haasan's 'Thug Life'

2025 is already shaping up to be a defining year at the movies, with some of the biggest Indian film stars across industries set to assemble on the big screen. Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Mohanlal, Mammootty, Vijay, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Nagarjuna, Yash, Ajith, Suriya, and Vikram are just some of the actors who will arrive with their big-budget features as the Indian film industry prepares to rally from a 2024 with mixed results.

Bollywood will hope to bounce back in 2025 as some of the biggest Hindi stars have their films ready; from Aamir Khan's Sitaare Zameen Par and Hrithik Roshan's War 2 co-starring Jr NTR, to the first big outing of the year in Salman Khan's Sikandar. Akshay Kumar will also be seen switching to comedies this year with films like Housefull 5 and the third instalment of Welcome, while Alia Bhatt will step into action mode with Sharvari Wagh in the second spy universe film of the year, Alpha.

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Tamil cinema will see all the big guns coming back, with the likes of Mani Ratnam, Lokesh Kanagaraj and Karthik Subbaraj all helming movies. It will also be the year when Thalapathy Vijay has his last screen outing before a full-time plunge into politics, while others like Suriya and Vikram will hope to rebound from the middling results of Kanguva and Thangalaan respectively.

The Telugu film industry will continue its streak with a series of masala movies too; Prabhas will headline a horror comedy, while Ram Charan will be seen on the big screen for the first time since RRR (2022). Anushka Shetty will also be leading her solo action film, billed as a pan-India outing.

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Malayalam cinema will hope to spring several surprises, continuing the momentum of their acclaimed blockbusters from 2024. Filmmakers like Mahesh Narayanan, Gautham Vasudev Menon and Prithviraj Sukumaran are teaming up with stars like Mammootty, Mohanlal and Fahadh Faasil among others; 2025 will also witness the on-screen reunion of legends Mammootty and Mohanlal after several years.

Meanwhile, Kannada cinema will hope to flex its box-office muscles with two pan-India offerings: Rishab Shetty's Kantara: Chapter 1 and Toxic which stars Yash after the historic success of the KGF franchise.

Here's a list of films to look forward to in 2025:

January:

Game Changer
Release date: 10/01/2025
Cast: Ram Charan and Kiara Advani
Director: S Shankar
Primary language: Telugu

Fateh
Release date: 10/01/2025
Cast: Sonu Sood, Jacqueline Fernandez, Vijay Raaz, and Naseeruddin Shah
Director: Sonu Sood
Primary language: Hindi

Santosh
Release date: 10/01/2025
Cast: Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar
Director: Sandhya Suri
Primary language: Hindi

Vidaamuyarchi
Release date: Postponed from Pongal
Cast:  Ajith Kumar and Trisha Krishnan
Director: Magizh Thirumeni
Primary language: Tamil

Daaku Maharaaj
Release date: 12/01/2025
Cast: Nandamuri Balakrishna, Bobby Deol and Shraddha Srinath
Director: Bobby Kolli
Primary language: Telugu

Sankranthiki Vasthunam
Release date: 14/01/2025
Cast: Venkatesh, Aishwarya Rajesh and Meenakshi Chaudhary
Director:  Anil Ravipudi
Primary language: Telugu

Emergency
Release Date: 17/01/2025
Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Anupam Kher, Mahima Chaudhry, Milind Soman, Shreyas Talpade, Vishak Nair, and late Satish Kaushik
Director: Kangana Ranaut
Primary language: Hindi

Azaad
Release Date: 17/01/2025
Cast: Aaman Devgan, Rasha Thadani, Ajay Devgn and Diana Penty
Director: Abhishek Kapoor
Primary language: Hindi

SkyForce
Release date: 24/01/2025
Cast:  Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur, Sara Ali Khan and Veer Pahariya
Director: Sandeep Kewlani and Abhishek Anil Kapur
Primary language: Hindi

Thudarum
Release date: 30/01/2025
Cast: Mohanlal and Shobana
Director: Tharun Moorthy
Primary language: Malayalam

Deva
Release date: 31/01/2025
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Pooja Hegde and Pavail Gulati
Director: Rosshan Andrrews
Primary language: Hindi

Shahid Kapoor in 'Deva'

Veera Dheera Sooran: Part 2
Release Date: Tentatively Pongal

Cast: Vikram, SJ Suryah, Suraj Venjaramoodu (in his Tamil debut), Dushara Vijayan and Siddique
Director:  SU Arun Kumar
Primary language: Tamil

February:

Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam
Release date: 7/02/2025
Cast: Pavish, Anikha Surendran, Priya Prakash Varrier, Mathew Thomas
Director: Dhanush
Primary language: Tamil

LoveYapa 
Release date: 7/02/2025
Cast: Junaid Khan, Khushi Kapoor
Director: Advait Chandan
Primary language: Hindi

Chhaava 
Release date: 14/02/2025
Cast: Vicky Kaushal and Rashmika Mandanna 
Director: Laxman Utekar
Primary language: Hindi

Poster of 'Chhaava'

Superboys of Malegaon 
Release date: 28/02/2025
Cast: Adarsh Gourav, Vineet Kumar Singh and Shashank Arora
Director: Reema Kagti
Primary language: Hindi

March:

Crazxy
Release date: 7/03/2025
Cast: Sohum Shah
Director: Girish Kohli
Primary language: Hindi

L2: Empuraan
Release Date: 27/03/2025
Cast: Mohanlal, Prithviraj, Tovino Thomas, Indrajith Sukumaran, Manju Warrier, Saniya Iyappan, Arjun Das, Saikumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu
Director: Prithviraj Sukumaran
Primary language: Malayalam

Sikandar
Release date: Eid
Cast: Salman Khan, Rashmika Mandanna, Sathyaraj, Sharman Joshi and Prateik Babbar
Director: AR Murugadoss 
Primary language: Hindi

Poster of 'Sikandar'

April:
The Raja Saab
Release Date: 10/04/2025
Cast: Prabhas
Director: Maruthi
Primary language: Telugu

Prabhas in 'The Raja Saab'

Ghaati
Release date: 18/04/2025
Cast: Anushka Shetty
Director: Krish Jagarlamudi
Primary language: Telugu

Idly Kadai
Release date: 10/04/2025
Cast: Dhanush, Nithya Menen, Shalini Pandey, Arun Vijay and Prakash Raj
Director: Dhanush
Primary language: Tamil

Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari
Release date: 18/04/2025
Cast: Varun Dhawan, Jahnvi Kapoor
Director:  Shashank Khaitan 
Primary language: Hindi

May:

Raid 2
Release date: 1/05/2025
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Vaani Kapoor, Ritesh Deshmukh and Rajat Kapoor
Director: Rajkumar Gupta
Primary language: Hindi

HIT: The Third Case
Release date: 1/05/2025
Cast: Nani and Srinidhi Shetty
Director: Sailesh Kolanu

June:
Thug Life
Release date: 5/06/2025
Cast:  Kamal Haasan, Silambarasan TR, Trisha
Director: Mani Ratnam
Primary language: Tamil

Poster of 'Thug Life'

Housefull 5
Release date: 6/06/2025
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan, Fardeen Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Sonam Bajwa, Nargis Fakhri, Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
Primary language: Hindi

August:

War 2
Release date: 15/08/2025
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Jr NTR, and Kiara Advani
Director: Ayan Mukerji
Primary language: Hindi

The Delhi Files 
Release date: 15/08/2025
Cast: Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, and Govind Namdeo
Director: Vivek Agnihotri
Primary language: Hindi

September:

Baaghi 4 
Release date: 5/09/2025 
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Sonam Bajwa, Harnaz Kaur and Sanjay Dutt
Director: A Harsha
Primary language: Hindi

October:
Kantara: Chapter 1
Release date: 2/10/2025
Cast:  Rishab Shetty and Jayaram
Director: Rishab Shetty 
Primary language: Kannada

Poster of 'Kantara: Chapter 1'

Tips Films’ untitled comedy

Release date: 2/10/2025

Cast: Varun Dhawan

Director: David Dhawan

Primary language: Hindi

Thama
Release date: Diwali
Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Rashmika Mandanna
Director: Aditya Sarpotdar
Primary language: Hindi

Thalapathy 69
Release Date: October
Cast:  Thalapathy Vijay, Pooja Hegde, Bobby Deol, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Priyamani,
Prakash Raj, Mamitha Baiju
Director:  H Vinoth
Primary language: Tamil

Pooja Hegde and Vijay during the mahurat shoot.

November:

De De Pyaar De 2
Release date: 14/11/2025
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Rakul Preet Singh, and R.Madhavan
Director: Anshul Sharma
Primary language: Hindi

December:

Alpha
Release date: Christmas
Cast: Alia Bhatt and Sharvari
Director: Shiv Rawail
Primary language: Hindi

Release date yet to be announced

Coolie 

Cast: Rajinikanth,  Nagarjuna, Soubin Shahir, Sathyaraj, Shruti Haasan, Upendra

Director: Lokesh Kanagaraj

Primary language: Tamil

Rajinikanth in 'Coolie'

Indian 3

Cast: Kamal Haasan, Kajal Aggarwal and Siddharth

Director: S Shankar

Primary language: Tamil

Sitaare Zameen par

Cast: Aamir Khan

Director: RS Prasanna

Primary language: Hindi

MMMN

Cast: Mammootty, Mohanlal, Fahadh, Kunchacko Boban, Nayanthara

Director: Mahesh Narayanan

A still from 'MMMN'

Good Bad Ugly

Cast: Ajith Kumar and Trisha Krishnan

Director: Adhik Ravichandran 

Primary language: Tamil

Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups

Cast: Yash
Director: Geethu Mohandas

Primary language: Kannada

Retro

Cast: Suriya and Pooja Hegde

Director:  Karthik Subbaraj

Primary language: Tamil

A still from 'Retro'

OG

Cast: Pawan Kalyan, Emraan Hashmi,  Sriya Reddy, Priyanka Mohan, and Arjun Das
Director: Sujeeth 

Primary language: Telugu

Lahore 1947

Cast: Sunny Deol

Director: Rajkumar Santoshi

Primary language: Hindi

Jaat

Cast:  Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda

Director: Gopichand Malineni

Primary language: Hindi

Dominic and the Ladies' Purse

Cast: Mammootty

Director: Gautham Vasudev Menon

Primary language: Malayalam

Bison

Cast:  Dhruv Vikram and Anupama Parameswaran

Director: Mari Selvaraj
Primary language: Tamil

Jolly LLB 3

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi, Huma Qureshi, and Saurabh Shukla

Director: Subhash Kapoor

Primary language: Hindi

Kubera

Cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni, Dhanush and Rashmika Mandanna

Director: Sekhar Kammula

Primary language: Tamil

Sardar 2

Cast:  Karthi, SJ Suryah, Malavika Mohanan, Ashika Ranganath and Rajisha Vijayan

Director:  PS Mithran

Primary language: Tamil

Suriya 45

Cast: Suriya and Trisha Krishnan

Director: RJ Balaji

Primary language: Tamil

⁠120 Bahadur 

Cast: Farhan Akhtar

Director: Razneesh Razy Ghai

Primary language: Hindi

Poster of '120 Bahadur'

Param Sundari
Cast: Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor

Director: Tushar Jalota

Primary language: Hindi

Love Insurance Kompany

Cast:  Pradeep Ranganathan, SJ Suryah, Krithi Shetty, Yogi Babu, Gouri G Kishan, Mysskin, Seeman, Anandaraj, Sunil Reddy and Shah Ra
Director: Vignesh Shivan

Primary language: Tamil

Dhadak 2

Cast: Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri

Director: Shazia Iqbal

Primary language: Hindi

Untitled C Sankaran Nair biopic

Cast: Akshay Kumar, R.Madhavan, and Ananya Panday

Director: Karan Singh Tyagi 

Primary language: Hindi

Sajid Nadiadwala's untitled film

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Triptii Dimri, Nana Patekar, and Randeep Hooda

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj

Primary language: Hindi

Dil Ka Darwaaza Khol Na Darling!

Cast: Jaya Bachchan, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Wamiqa Gabbi, and Swanand Kirkire

Director: Vikas Bahl

Primary language: Hindi

Son of Sardaar 2

Cast: Ajay Devgn

Director: Vijay Kumar Arora

Primary language: Hindi

Tanvi The Great

Cast: Anupam Kher

Director: Anupam Kher

Primary language: Hindi

Maa

Cast: Kajol

Director: Vishal Furia

Primary language: Hindi

Maalik

Cast: Rajkummar Rao

Director: Pulkit

Primary language: Hindi

Poster of 'Maalik'

Dacoit

Cast: Adivi Sesh and Mrunal Thakur

Director: Shaneil Deo

Primary language: Telugu

SK25

Cast: Sivakarthikeyan, Jayam Ravi, Atharvaa and Sreeleela

Director: Sudha Kongara

Primary language: Tamil

Tera Yaar Hoon Main

Cast: Aman Indra Kumar and Akanksha Sharma

Director: Milap Zaveri

Primary language: Hindi