Anurag Kashyap’s fans are eagerly waiting for his much talked about film. Kennedyto release. IHNS It is learned that the acclaimed thriller will finally see the light of day in a month or two. Additionally, the trailer of the film will be launched at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2026 in Mumbai.
Exclusive: Kennedy to finally be released; Sunny Leone, Anurag Kashyap, Rahul Bhatt to launch trailer at Kala Ghoda Art Mahotsav 2026
As per the schedule uploaded on the website of Kala Ghoda Art Mahotsav, the trailer will be unveiled on Sunday, February 8 at Cross Maidan in South Mumbai. Anurag Kashyap will be present along with the film’s star cast – Sunny Leone and Rahul Bhatt – and the trio will be chatting about the film in the presence of attendees. The schedule mentions that this exciting event will ‘bring the festival to a powerful cinematic finale’.
Kennedy It was premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was also screened at the massive Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center as part of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in the same year. It is produced by Zee Studios, Ranjan Singh and Kabir Ahuja. Anurag Kashyap had expressed his displeasure after the delay in release in 2025. He told The Hollywood Reporter, “Where Kennedy? and whose hand is it Kennedy In? It’s in the hands of some people who have never made films before. the people who created Kennedy Everyone in the studio has left… The people who are there have been instructed to increase share prices, make profits, recover costs… that’s all. No one is interested in films. It doesn’t matter if Kennedy Went to Cannes; It doesn’t matter that it got such a wide reception at festivals. Forget outside India, he has seen the reception in India, but where is the film?”
The launch of the trailer has raised hopes that the film will also be released soon. Now it remains to be seen whether it releases next month or in March and comes to theaters or directly on the OTT platform.
Other highlights of Kala Ghoda Art Festival 2026
apart from Kennedy Apart from the trailer launch, there will also be many other programs related to the film at Kala Ghoda Art Festival this year. On February 1, R Balki will be in conversation about films and food followed by a screening of his film. Less sugar (2007). Two more such conversations that will come to light are that of the team jhankar beats (Sujoy Ghosh, Rahul Bose, Sanjay Suri, Shayan Munshi, Rangita Pritish Nandi) on 6th February and the team of tanvi the great (Anupam Kher, Shubhangi Dutt, Ankur Suman and Abhishek Dixit) on 4 February. There will be a screening of both films before the discussion.
a screening of half truth (1983) will be held on 2 February followed by a discussion with key members of the team. The discussion will be moderated by Nandita Puri, ex-wife of Ardh Satya lead actor late Om Puri.
teams of Tu Ya Main, The Fog: Season 2 And two crazy people in the city Will participate in promotional programs on February 1, February 4 and February 7 respectively. On February 6, Vir Das will promote his memoir ‘The Outsider: A Memoir for Misfits’. On February 7, the great Gulzar will be speaking with Satya Saran about poetry, cinema and more. While Usha Uthup’s concert will be held on February 7, Monali Thakur and Farhan Akhtar will give live performances on February 8. Interestingly, this performance will take place at the Asiatic Library Steps.
On February 4, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Sharib Hashmi will stage the play. breast of destiny. On February 1, Saiee Manjrekar will be the inspiration for Dolly Jain for a saree-draping session. Finally, Regal Cinema will screen interesting films like suede bonda (2025), the seven Year Itch (1955) and Sholay – The Final Cut (1975) on 5 February.
