Anjali Menon enters the genre space with a "soft sci-fi" family drama. The premise is deceptively simple: One morning, every child under the age of 12 in Kerala wakes up speaking a language no one has ever heard. Linguists call it "static code"; the Vatican calls it a miracle; the parents just want to know what their kids are saying about them.

For decades, Malayalam cinema was celebrated for its realism—the sweat on a fisherman’s brow, the politics of a local chaya kada (tea shop). But something shifted in the mid-2020s. Filmmakers stopped looking just at the ground; they started looking at the sky.

Here are the biggest Malayalam sci-fi releases of 2026 that are currently breaking box office records and melting brains. Director: Rajeev Ravi Status: Released (March 2026)

A low-budget intellectual bomb that is still playing in select Kochi screens. Nirvaaham tackles the bootstrap paradox in a uniquely Malayali setting. A software engineer in Technopark invents a device that lets him send text messages 10 seconds into the past. He uses it to win arguments with his wife and fix bugs in his code. But when a 10-second gap becomes a 10-year gap, he finds out he is the reason his father disappeared in 2016.

Why you should watch it: Imagine Mad Max: Fury Road but shot on the backwaters of Alappuzha with Theyyam rituals performed on floating garbage barges. It is loud, wet, and visually unhinged. Fahadh Faasil delivers a career-best performance as a man who is slowly turning into a amphibian-like mutant due to radiation. Director: Christo Tomy Status: Released (February 2026)