The trailer for The Vvaan dropped on Wednesday, and it wastes no time establishing that this isn't a straightforward romance or action outing. It's a folklore film first, built around a forest that carries its own mythology, and everything else gets stacked on top of that.

Sidharth Malhotra and Tamannaah Bhatia headline it together for the first time, and their characters get pulled into whatever's stirring in the woods beyond the world we already glimpsed in the teaser. The trailer doesn't spell out the full plot, but it makes clear their personal arcs run parallel to a bigger mystery tied to the forest and the forces guarding it.

Genre-wise, the film is trying to hold a lot at once. There's action, there's romance, there's comic relief, and there are moments clearly built for scale and spectacle. Whether all of that sits together without the film feeling scattered is the real question the trailer raises but can't answer on its own.

What's notable is how far this project is stretching past the two-hour runtime. The Vvaan comes with The Legend of Vvaan, a comic book meant to flesh out the folklore and the wider universe the film is drawing from. That's a fairly unusual move for a Hindi theatrical release, and it signals the makers see this less as a one-off and more as something they'd like to build on.

Behind the camera, it's a TVF and Balaji combination. Arunabh Kumar has written the film, Deepak Mishra directs, and Manu Anand handles cinematography as well as visual direction. Ektaa R Kapoor produces alongside Shobha Kapoor, Arunabh Kumar and Niraj Kothari, with Balaji Motion Pictures presenting the film in association with TVF and 11.11 Production.

The pairing of Malhotra and Bhatia is itself a first, and coming off a stretch where both actors have leaned into different kinds of genre work, this puts them somewhere neither has fully occupied before, a mythology-adjacent fantasy rather than the straight thriller or drama space they're more identified with.

The Vvaan reaches cinemas on September 25. Between now and then, expect the promotional push to lean heavily on the folklore angle and that comic book tie-in, since that's the one thing separating this from the usual pre-Diwali release crowd. Whether audiences bite on a forest-mythology fantasy over the festival stretch is the thing the trade will actually be watching.