The trailer for The Vvan landed Tuesday, and it's the first time Sidharth Malhotra and Tamannaah Bhatia are sharing screen space. The film releases in theatres on September 25.

What's unusual here isn't just the pairing. It's who's making the thing. Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Motion Pictures has teamed up with TVF for The Vvan, a combination that doesn't come along often, one known for saas-bahu sagas and the other for internet-native comedy and workplace shows. Whatever the boardroom logic, the trailer suggests a film trying to sit between old-school village drama and something stranger.

The setup, per the trailer, goes like this. Malhotra and Bhatia play an urban couple in Mumbai. She wants him to come home for Chhath Puja, and the entire plot unfolds across the five days of the festival at her ancestral house. He's a skeptic who laughs off the villagers' warnings about the forest nearby. That doesn't last. He starts seeing things, having visions that tie him to the land's past, and slowly the film pushes him toward the role of its protector, whether he wants it or not.

There's a second layer running through the trailer too. The village is split down the middle, one side pushing for development that would mean clearing forest land, the other holding on to tradition. Malhotra's character ends up stuck in the middle of that fight as much as he's stuck in the supernatural one, which is a reasonably clever way to fold a real-world tension into a ghost story.

The trailer closes on a large-scale climax, past and present colliding, with a few seconds of jungle action that look built for a big screen rather than a phone.

Music, cast, and the September traffic jam

Four composers worked on the score, Vishal Mishra, Amit Trivedi, Tanishk Bagchi and Sam CS, and Koimoi's trailer review singled out the jungle-sequence music as a standout even before the film has released. That's a reviewer's early read, not a verdict on the film itself, but it's worth noting given how much weight the trailer puts on atmosphere.

Director Deepak Kumar Mishra has rounded out the cast with Sunil Grover, Maniesh Paul, Shweta Tiwari and Anupam Soni, names that suggest the film wants comic relief sitting alongside its scares.

September 25 is shaping up to be a crowded Friday, with Vvan landing in the same window as other big releases jostling for screens. Whether a Chhath Puja-set folklore film can carve out its own space, or gets swallowed by the noise around it, is the question the next ten days will answer.