The Vvaan Trailer: Sidharth Malhotra and Tamannaah Bhatia Face the Wrath of the Wild in Deepak Kumar Mishra’s Folk-Horror

The trailer for The Vvaan: Force of the Forest, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Tamannaah Bhatia, signals a deliberate pivot from conventional Bollywood thrillers toward rooted, indigenous folklore. Helmed by Deepak Kumar Mishra and produced under Ektaa R. Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures alongside The Viral Fever (TVF), the film merges the primal dread of an untouched wilderness with Indian mythological subtext.

The narrative setup follows a familiar clash: modern skepticism pitted against ancient veneration. Sidharth Malhotra plays a rational, city-bred man who returns to his ancestral village to settle a land dispute. When he dismisses local superstitions and crosses into a sacred, forbidden forest, he sets off a chain reaction that threatens the equilibrium of the entire region. Rather than framing the setting as merely a backdrop for jump scares, the trailer frames the wilderness itself as a living, retaliatory entity anchored by the legend of Van Devi.

Tamannaah Bhatia appears in a distinctly grounded avatar, deeply tied to the community's cultural fabric and spiritual reverence. A standout visual from the trailer captures her during a Chhath Puja sequence, rooting the supernatural tension in North Indian cultural imagery rather than borrowing Western horror tropes. The pairing of Malhotra and Bhatia introduces a fresh on-screen dynamic, contrasting an outsider’s reluctance with an insider’s profound belief.

Beyond the two leads, the ensemble brings notable dramatic heft. Sunil Grover, Anup Soni, Shweta Tiwari, and Maniesh Paul appear in key village roles, suggesting a world where quirky rural politics and simmering dread coexist. Grover in particular hints at a more layered, serious turn, diverging from his comedic mainstream appearances.At its thematic core, The Vvaan explores the friction between aggressive "development" and ancestral faith. Mishra's visual palette leans heavily on atmospheric dread—mist-laden canopies, obscure woodland shrines, and an ominous sound design that treats the forest as an active protagonist. Arriving in theatres on September 25, 2026, the trailer positions the project as an ambitious test of whether grassroots folk-horror can command modern theatrical box office scale.