Epic (Telugu with Engllish Subtitles)

EPIC — First Semester: Falling in Love, Freshman Year Telugu with English Subtitles · Releasing 11 September 2026 at Victory Cinema, Bengaluru Nobody forgets their first semester. The first day you walked into a classroom full of strangers, the friend you made because they sat one bench away, the person you noticed across the room and then kept noticing. Telugu cinema has always understood that territory better than almost any other — and EPIC — First Semester walks right into it. From 11 September, the film plays at Victory Cinema in Telugu, with English subtitles at every show, the way everything plays here. What the film is EPIC — First Semester is a Telugu romantic entertainer directed by Aditya Haasan, and the names surrounding him should raise your expectations several notches. It is produced by Suryadevara Naga Vamsi and Sai Soujanya under Sithara Entertainments and Fortune Four Cinemas — the same production pairing that delivered Lucky Baskhar, one of the most loved Telugu films of recent years. Sithara has built a reputation for backing films that are commercial without being careless: films with actual writing underneath the entertainment. When this banner puts its name on a young-romance title, it is not filling a release calendar. It is making a bet. The technical bench runs deep for a film about first-year butterflies. The music is by Hesham Abdul Wahab — hold that thought, because it deserves its own section. The cinematography is by Azeem Mohammad, and the editing is by Navin Nooli, the National Award-winning editor whose cut made Jersey land the way it did. This is the crew you assemble when you intend the film to travel far beyond its genre's usual audience. The pair everyone wanted back The leads are Anand Deverakonda and Vaishnavi Chaitanya — and if those two names together give you a small jolt of recognition, it's because you watched Baby. That 2023 film became a full-blown phenomenon: a modest-budget romance that grew into one of the biggest sleeper hits Telugu cinema has produced, argued about in hostels and offices for months, its songs inescapable, its ending debated like a court judgment. Anand Deverakonda and Vaishnavi Chaitanya were the reason it hurt. Their pairing had the one thing no casting director can manufacture — believability. EPIC — First Semester brings that pairing back, and moves it to where stories like theirs actually begin: a campus, a first year, a first everything. Anand Deverakonda has quietly built himself into one of Telugu cinema's most dependable young leads — the rare actor who reads as an actual person rather than a hero waiting for his elevation shot. Vaishnavi Chaitanya went from being a discovery in Baby to a lead with her own following. Around them stand Shivaji and Vasuki, seasoned hands who give a young film its ballast. The Hesham factor Now, the music. Hesham Abdul Wahab is the composer behind Hi Nanna and Premalu — which means he has scored, back to back, the most tender Telugu film and the most joyous Malayalam romance of the decade. No young composer working in South Indian cinema today has a better ear for how love actually sounds: not thunderous declarations, but the small swell of a moment tipping over from friendship into something else. Songs are half the reason Telugu romances live forever. Decades from now, somebody will play a song from this era and an entire generation will remember who they were sitting next to. Hesham's soundtracks are engineered for exactly that kind of memory — and they are built in layers that a phone speaker flattens into nothing. At Victory, his score plays in Dolby Atmos on JBL Professional cinema systems, in a hall where the strings can actually rise around you. A romance heard properly is a different film from a romance heard through earphones. Why a romance deserves a hall Horror needs a theatre to scare you. Romance needs a theatre for a subtler reason: a love story watched alone on a laptop is a private sigh, but a love story watched in a full hall is a shared one. The whole row laughs at the hero's first fumbled sentence. The hall goes quiet, together, when the moment finally arrives. Somebody whistles. You will not admit it, but the film lands harder because three hundred strangers are rooting for the same two people you are. And campus romances hold a special power in a theatre: everyone in the hall has a first semester of their own to bring in with them. The students come to see themselves as they are. The rest of us come to visit who we were. Bring the person you sat next to in college — or the person you wish you had. What Victory adds to it Every show of EPIC — First Semester at Victory carries English subtitles, as every film here does. Your Telugu is fluent, functional, or entirely absent — it doesn't matter, and neither does your date's. Nobody leans over to ask what was said; nobody misses the line that the hall laughs at. In a city like Bengaluru, where every friend group is a language map of the country, subtitles are how the whole group watches one film together. The film itself plays in true 4K on our Barco RGB laser projector — and a film shot for the warm light of campuses and first meetings deserves projection that keeps its colours alive instead. Hesham's score, as promised, gets the Atmos treatment it was mixed for. And there are no advertisements at Victory. None. The certificate rolls, and the film starts. We gave up that revenue long ago because your ticket buys the film, not a commercial break. On a Friday with a new release, that has a simple practical meaning: the showtime on your ticket is when EPIC actually begins. Come early, settle in, and let the first frame land on time. Booking, plainly Booking is open now on victorycinema.in. You choose your exact seats on a live seat map — and for this film that matters more than usual, because a romance is a two-seats-together enterprise, and the middle of the hall is where the film looks and sounds best. The seats you pick are the seats you sit in; Victory never substitutes seats. There is no booking fee — not a small one, none — and no GST on a fee that doesn't exist. If anything goes wrong before your ticket confirms, your refund is instant and automatic. Your ticket arrives on WhatsApp and SMS the moment your booking confirms; show the QR at the gate and walk in. A note on timing: films with beloved lead pairs and Hesham soundtracks develop their crowds fast, and evening shows go first. If your plan involves a particular person and a particular pair of seats, book before the weekend makes the decision for you. First semester, one Friday Some films are events. Others are appointments — with a pair you already love, a composer who has never let you down, and a version of yourself you haven't visited in a while. EPIC — First Semester is the second kind, and the appointment is this Friday, 11 September, at Victory Cinema, 318 Magadi Main Road, Kamakshipalya — Bengaluru's loved movie theatre. Telugu, with English subtitles. A big screen, a warm hall, and songs you'll be humming on the ride home. Book now at victorycinema.in. No booking fee. No ads. Two seats together, exactly where you want them.