Released Movies Malayalam - Sci-fi 2026 [upd]

If 2024 was the year of the political thriller and 2025 belonged to the neo-noir renaissance, 2026 will be remembered as the year Malayalam cinema went interstellar. With three major releases in the first quarter alone, Mollywood has not only caught up with global genre standards but has redefined them with a distinct Kerala flavor.

A sobering counterpoint to the action-heavy sci-fi tropes. Bring tissues. released movies malayalam sci-fi 2026

Why It Worked: This is the "Her" of Malayalam cinema—quiet, heartbreaking, and deeply philosophical. The film’s central question— Can you love a ghost made of code? —has sparked heated debates on social media. Aishwarya Lekshmi’s cameo as the AI’s voice (uncredited) is haunting. If 2024 was the year of the political

The Plot: The most emotionally devastating of the lot. Tovino plays a lonely farmer in Idukki who loses his son to a landslide. He builds an AI avatar of the boy using old voice notes and video calls. Asif Ali plays the ethics officer who must decide if the AI has "human rights" when the farmer refuses to shut it down. Bring tissues

The final frontier, it turns out, was not outer space. It was the Malayalam heart.

The Plot: In a psychedelic, dystopian Vennila (a fictional district in northern Kerala), a memory-wiping cult has convinced the populace that emotions are a virus. Mammootty, in a career-defining role as a silent "Memory Smuggler," hides forbidden feelings inside antique urulis (bronze vessels). Vinayakan plays a neural-surgeon-turned-warlord who feeds on harvested nostalgia.

The Plot: Set in a near-future (2031) where commercial space travel is the new elite playground, a low-gravity luxury liner malfunctions above the Indian Ocean. Fahadh Faasil plays a disgraced former ISRO engineer who must remotely hack the ship’s AI using vintage 2020s tech from his crumbling flat in Aluva.