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Party Animals: When Friends Turn Into Enemies After One Night Out

Party Animals releases November 20, 2026, in theatres. No word yet on streaming. But the real test? Whether audiences want to watch a movie about friends who can’t stop fighting — even when they’re trying to fix things.

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Party Animals hits screens on November 20, 2026 — a Friday, which means the chaos it promises won’t just be on screen. Yoodlee Films has locked in the date for Viraj Ghelani’s latest, a Mumbai-set comedy about two friends whose night out spirals into full-blown emotional mayhem. Mann Patel (Ghelani) and Armaan Khanna (Arjun Tanwar), once inseparable, reunite after years apart.

What follows isn’t nostalgia. It’s FOMO, bad decisions, and fights that turn into raadas, because adulthood doesn’t fix your judgment, just gives you more room to mess up. The film leans into the absurdity of friendship under pressure: every attempt to fix one problem spawns three more. That’s not a plot twist.

That’s a life choice. And it’s being sold as a comedy. So far, so relatable. But the real question is whether this kind of chaos translates into box-office energy.

The ensemble cast includes Pragati Nagpal, Naqiyah Haji, Alam Khan, Saqib Ayub, Kamlesh Sawant, Anil Charanjeett, Aaron Koul, Vijay Patkar, and Manoj Joshi. Directed by Ravi Chhabriya, written by Ali Haji, Khush Mullick, and Veer Panchal, and produced by Vikram Mehra and Siddharth Anand Kumar, Party Animals is shaping up to be the kind of film that lives or dies by its timing.

November 20 is a crowded date. But if the trailer lands with the same tone as the press release. Self-aware, messy, unapologetically loud, it might just ride the wave of post-pandemic hangover humor. Or it could get buried.

We’ll know by December.

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Party Animals

20 November 2026 · in theatres · cast, trailer and release details

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