The Indian audience will finally get to watch Anurag Kashyap’s neo-noir thriller Kennedy after they waited more than five years. The film will debut on ZEE5 between 20 February 2026 and 20 February 2026 which marks its first public screening after the Cannes Film Festival.
Kashyap wrote and directed Kennedy which features Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone in their third collaboration with the director after Ugly and Dobaaraa. The film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section at Cannes 2023 which received enthusiastic response including standing ovation. After its Cannes debut the film continued to screen at various international film festivals which included Sydney Film Festival and Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in the US and Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
The film Kennedy received Indian release approval but never entered theaters, which caused extended delays and created uncertainty about its domestic release. The film received international distribution in December 2025 when it became the only Indian film selected for the initial launch of Letterboxd’s Video Store, which provided TVOD access in more than 20 countries, except India at that time.
The long-awaited announcement of the OTT release for Kennedy came when Kashyap called the movie his dedicated work and he expressed joyful anticipation for people in India to watch the film after its worldwide distribution.
Uday Shetty, an insomniac former police officer who people believe to be dead, uses the name Kennedy to operate as a secret enforcer for a system that exists in complete corruption. The story takes place mostly in Mumbai and it examines guilt and moral decline and the process of people finding redemption. Sunny Leone plays Charlie, a crucial character who significantly alters Kennedy’s path.
The movie features Mohit Takalkar and Abhilash Thapliyal and Megha Burman as supporting actors while Aamir Aziz appeared in the film as a special guest. The film establishes its atmospheric tone through its original background score which the Prague Philharmonic Choir recorded in Prague.
