Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai (Tamil with English Subtitles)

Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai: Nivin Pauly and director Ram at Victory Cinema A train moves through a rainy night. Two strangers meet. One is a 32-year-old man trying to deal with the demands of an ordinary life. The other has lived for 8,000 years. That encounter is the starting point of Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai, the Tamil film written and directed by Ram. Nivin Pauly, Anjali and Soori star, and Yuvan Shankar Raja provides the music. After its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the film is scheduled to open in cinemas on Thursday, 1 October 2026. Victory Cinema is presenting it in Tamil with English subtitles. Choose a show and book directly with us, with no booking fee. The story The film begins aboard a moving train on a rain-soaked night. A chance meeting brings an ordinary man into the life of an immortal. Their circumstances could scarcely be further apart: one must confront the immediate question of how to survive, while the other carries wounds that have endured across centuries. The journey draws them into moral choices, unexpected acts of compassion and a search for peace. Ram gives the story a premise large enough for fantasy, but its central questions are recognisable. How long can someone carry pain? What does it take to help another person? Can a brief meeting change the direction of a life? There is also a rat on the train. The Rotterdam festival’s description makes a point of mentioning it; we will leave its part in the journey for you to discover. That is enough of the plot to bring into the cinema. The pleasure of a film built around such an unusual meeting lies in learning who these people are as they learn about one another. Nivin Pauly as the immortal Nivin Pauly plays the man who has lived for 8,000 years. Immortality sounds like a gift until a story asks what it means to remember loss, mistakes and unfinished relationships for that long. His character enters the train carrying far more history than anyone around him can see. The premise gives Pauly a role with two dimensions. He must belong to the extraordinary world of the film, while making an ancient emotional burden understandable to an audience living in the present. The immortal’s search to heal old wounds gives the film a personal centre amid its fantasy and spectacle. For viewers who know Pauly’s Malayalam films, this is an opportunity to see him lead a Tamil story with a very different scale of time. For those meeting him here for the first time, the character offers a direct way into Ram’s world: mysterious at first, then increasingly defined by what he feels and seeks. Soori, Anjali and the ordinary life alongside the fantastic Soori and Anjali complete the principal cast. Soori’s presence places a recognisably human life beside the immortal’s vast one. The contrast is part of what makes the encounter compelling. A man facing the next few hours and a man carrying thousands of years cannot measure a problem in quite the same way. Anjali joins Ram again for a film concerned with love, suffering and the ties between people. The official trailer names the three stars without laying out every turn in their relationships. That leaves room for audiences to meet the characters as the film introduces them. This cast also signals the film’s range. The central idea may sound like a fantasy, but Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai has space for humour, tenderness, conflict and performance. Its characters give those shifts a human footing. Why director Ram’s film is different Ram is known for films that examine how people respond to difficult circumstances. Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai expands that interest into a much larger, fable-like story. Instead of starting with an event from everyday life, it places an immortal among ordinary people and lets their meeting open questions about the human condition. The International Film Festival Rotterdam selected the film for its Big Screen Competition in 2024. Its programme described a mix of conversation, action, melodrama, comedy, songs and spectacle. Those elements can sound like several films at once. In Ram’s hands, they belong to one journey that asks what compassion might mean to people separated by eight millennia. The film’s English title is Seven Seas Seven Hills. It suggests a distance far beyond the train on which the story begins. Yet the train is a useful setting for a tale of this size. Strangers share a confined space and a direction of travel. They may arrive with entirely separate pasts, but for a time they must face what is happening together. Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the music for the film. His name appears with Ram’s and the cast’s in its official trailer and release-date teaser. Music has an important place in a story that moves between intimate exchanges and a wider fantasy world. A train journey has its own rhythm. Rain, movement, conversation and silence can change the feeling of a scene before anyone explains what is at stake. Songs and score can carry those changes further, connecting moments of humour or spectacle to the emotions underneath them. At Victory Cinema, this is a film to give your full attention. Settle into your seat, follow the words on screen and let the sound and images lead you through the journey. A story that reaches across centuries can still turn on something as small as the way one person speaks to another. From Rotterdam to cinemas Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai had its world premiere at the 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it screened under the English title Seven Seas Seven Hills. A festival premiere gave audiences an early chance to encounter Ram’s unusual combination of fantasy and human drama. Its theatrical release is scheduled for 1 October 2026. That is a different milestone: the opportunity for a much wider audience to see the film together, respond to its turns and discuss it afterwards. The earlier festival screening also means this is a film that has had a public life before its cinema release. There is no need to manufacture a verdict or promise that every viewer will react the same way. Its premise, cast and creative team provide plenty of reason to see it and decide for yourself. If you have been waiting for the film since its trailer, this is your chance to experience the story as a complete theatrical work. If the title is new to you, the rainy-night meeting offers all the introduction you need. Tamil with English subtitles We are presenting the film in Tamil with English subtitles. Bengaluru audiences who enjoy Tamil cinema can bring friends whose first language is different and still share the experience. The subtitles also help viewers follow the details of a story in which conversations and choices matter. The screening language is worth checking when you book. The product title identifies this presentation clearly, so you can choose seats knowing which version you are coming to see. Once the film begins, the words on screen let you stay close to both the immediate danger of the journey and the longer history carried by its immortal character. Watching at Victory Cinema Victory Cinema is a 505-seat single-screen cinema on Magadi Main Road, Kamakshipalya, in west Bengaluru. Audiences come to us from nearby areas including Vijayanagar, Rajajinagar, Basaveshwaranagar and Nagarbhavi, as well as other parts of the city. Our Barco 4K RGB laser projector presents the film on a large cinema screen. The auditorium is equipped for Dolby Atmos; the sound format used for a particular show depends on the version supplied for that screening. What you can choose for yourself is the seat: select it when booking directly through our website. A film that brings a rain-soaked journey together with action, songs and spectacle deserves the concentration of a cinema visit. There is room to notice the faces during a quiet exchange, then take in the full frame when Ram widens the story’s scale. Book directly with no booking fee At the centre of Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai is a meeting between two people whose lives should have nothing in common. One is concerned with the present; the other has lived through thousands of years. The film follows what happens when they can no longer remain strangers. Check the Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai showtimes below, choose the seats you want and book at Victory Cinema. The film is listed in Tamil with English subtitles, and when you book directly on our website there is no booking fee.