The poster puts Kapoor in a role unlike anything he's played before, and confirms the Alia Bhatt-Vicky Kaushal film opens worldwide on January 21, 2027.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali has finally let fans see Ranbir Kapoor's face for Love & War. The poster went up on the film's social handles on Wednesday morning, and it's exactly the kind of image you'd expect from Bhansali: heavy on production design, heavy on mood, and built to be stared at rather than skimmed past.
Kapoor turns up in an avatar that's a departure even for an actor who's made a habit of departures. The caption accompanying the poster reads, "Woh rutba, woh raub, woh junoon! Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Love & War on 21st January 2027. See you at the movies!" There's a score playing under the visual too, timed to match the poster's tone rather than sit as background noise.
This is Bhansali's first outright romance since he last worked in the genre, and it's also the first time he's had Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal sharing a frame in one project. That's a lot of star power for a director known for stretching every rupee of his budget across the frame, and the poster suggests he isn't dialling back the scale for this one.
What we still don't know
Bhansali hasn't released looks for Bhatt or Kaushal yet, and there's no word yet on character names, the setting, or how the story splits between its three leads. Bollywood Hungama had earlier flagged that the film's teaser might land alongside Kapoor's other big 2027 release, the mythological epic Ramayana, though the studios haven't confirmed if that's still the plan.
What is locked in is the release date. Love & War opens worldwide on January 21, 2027, and it's going out in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, a spread that signals the makers are betting on a pan-India audience rather than a Hindi-belt one. Bhansali has written and directed the film himself, and Saregama is attached as a partner on the project going by the credits tagged in the poster post.
The timing puts Love & War in a January slot that's traditionally been kind to big-canvas releases, though nobody's said anything yet about who else might be circling that same weekend. For now, the only certainty is that Kapoor's first look is out, the date is fixed, and the rest of the cast reveal is presumably coming in stages.
Bhansali has a habit of drip-feeding his promotional campaigns rather than dumping everything at once, so expect Bhatt's and Kaushal's looks to follow before the year is out. Whether the teaser actually rides alongside Ramayana's marketing push, as speculated, should become clear once Yash Raj Films and the Love & War team start talking to each other in public.
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