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Bobby Deol's 'Bandar' Trailer Drops May 21 with Anurag Kashyap
Bobby Deol and Anurag Kashyap's dark thriller 'Bandar' drops its trailer May 21. Film releases worldwide June 5, 2026.
MUMBAI — The makers of Bandar have confirmed that the film's full trailer will be released on May 21, 2026, marking a significant escalation in the promotional campaign for what has become one of the most anticipated Hindi films of the year. The announcement follows a carefully staged rollout that began with a teaser and a debut song, each of which drew considerable audience and critical attention.
Bandar represents the first creative partnership between actor Bobby Deol and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap — a collaboration that carries weight given both figures' trajectories in Hindi cinema. Deol, whose career resurgence over the past several years has been widely noted, appears in a role described by the film's producers as a retro-rockstar character of a kind not previously attempted by the actor. Kashyap, known for films including Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) and Ugly (2013), brings to the project his characteristic interest in moral ambiguity, visual intensity, and character-driven storytelling.
The teaser material released to date has established a tone that is emphatically dark and emotionally volatile — consistent with Kashyap's established cinematic language but inflected, based on available footage, with a period aesthetic and an emphasis on psychological instability. The retro-rockstar framing of Deol's character introduces a layer of cultural specificity that distinguishes Bandar from standard genre entries.
"The film lives in the chaos between what we show the world and what we cannot escape inside ourselves," Kashyap has indicated in promotional materials — a formulation that aligns with the psychological register visible in the teaser.
The screenplay is credited to Sudip Sharma — whose prior work includes NH10 (2015), Udta Punjab (2016), and Bard of Blood (2019) — and actor-writer Abhishek Banerjee, whose versatility across performance and craft has been increasingly visible in recent years. The pairing of Sharma and Banerjee as co-writers, under Kashyap's direction, suggests a script with considerable structural and character ambition.
