Five brass crosses.
A church cemetery.
New Year's Eve.
Two careless youngsters thought it'd be funny.
The spirits did not.
Meet Karakkam — pitched as Mollywood's first ever musical horror film.
Not horror with a few songs.
Not a comedy with jump scares.
👉 A genre-bender where music is literally a storytelling device.
And after its theatrical run that began May 28, 2026, it's now packing its bags for the small screen.
SonyLIV has officially locked it in.
Five languages. One haunted New Year's Eve. A nationwide audience that never had to sit in a Kerala multiplex.
Two friends.
One bad decision.
Five angry spirits.
Dhanush (Sreenath Bhasi) and Pinki (Femina George) yank out those brass crosses from a graveyard — and unleash exactly what you'd expect.
Now they're racing to undo the mistake before the mistake undoes them.
Director Subhash Lalitha Subrahmanian (of Charles Enterprises fame) stitches the chaos together with comedy beats, supernatural dread, and a soundtrack from Sam C.S. doing heavy narrative lifting.
The theatrical run was modest — around ₹0.34 Cr India net — not a blockbuster on paper.
But the concept is what got people talking.
Prithviraj Sukumaran himself dropped the first-look poster. SonyLIV is hyping it as a "genre-bending ride." Critics called it vibrant, even when the writing wobbled.
Translation: this is the kind of film OTT was built for.
The ones too weird, too experimental, too niche for a packed Friday multiplex — but absolute catnip for a Saturday night home viewer scrolling for something different.
Malayalam cinema keeps doing this.
While bigger industries chase formula, Mollywood quietly experiments — musical horror, hyperlocal thrillers, slow-burn dramas that travel the world via streaming.
Karakkam is the next test case.
Five languages. Five spirits. One streaming gamble.
July is going to be loud.
That's all for now!
