Cult opens 30 October: A-rated, its event called off for the cyclone, and the most-viewed trailer we track

Release · 30 Oct · updated 2026-10-29

Vishwak Sen directs and stars in a survival thriller set on a Goa island, with music by Ravi Basrur. Comments under the official trailer mostly praise the score and talk of a comeback; the doubters say it looks borrowed from other films. Its pre-release event was cancelled because of the cyclone in Andhra Pradesh, and a release trailer came out instead on 29 October.

The facts

1. Gulte reports the Cult trailer, released 18 October, is set on a Goa island estate where people are forced into deadly games, and that the film opens in Telugu, Hindi, English, Japanese and Spanish. Gulte
2. M9 News reports Cult received an 'A' certificate with a runtime of about 2 hours 30 minutes. M9 News
3. 123Telugu reports the Cult pre-release event was cancelled because of the cyclone in Andhra Pradesh. 123Telugu
4. The release trailer came out on 29 October, the day before release. It focuses on the lead, a police officer called DSP Sankalp Nayak, and on his motives. Gulte

10.9M views on the official trailer