Ananthan Kaadu (2026)

Ananthan Kaadu is a political action thriller made as a Tamil-Malayalam bilingual, directed by Jiyen Krishnakumar from a screenplay by Murali Gopy. Set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it moves between Tamil Nadu and Thiruvananthapuram. Arya plays Vetrivel Kumaran, who travels from Tamil Nadu to Thiruvananthapuram, and the plot draws in an LTTE man who joins forces with gangsters in the city, as well as a fictional Kerala Chief Minister with a scandalous past. Murali Gopy also acts in the film, alongside Sunil as Sampath Rao, Indrans as Krishnankutty, Nikhila Vimal as Deepa, Vijayaraghavan as K K Menon and Santhy Balachandran as Karthi, with Regina Cassandra and Dev Mohan in the cast. S Vinod Kumar produces under Mini Studio, with music by B. Ajaneesh Loknath, cinematography by S Yuva and editing by Rohit V S Variyath. It is Jiyen Krishnakumar's second feature after Tiyaan. The film released in theatres in June 2026 and began streaming on Prime Video in September 2026.