Thagappan, starring Jiiva, will open in cinemas worldwide on 24 December 2026, production house Lark Studios and the actor announced on X on 23 October 2026 with a new release-date poster. According to the poster, Ra. Venkat wrote and directed the film, and K. Kumar is the producer.
The poster
The poster, issued in Tamil and English versions, shows Jiiva in a shirt and veshti on a highway strewn with motorbikes and fallen men. The announcement had been teased earlier that day, when Lark Studios and Jiiva shared a poster promising an important update at 5 PM.
The date places the release on Christmas Eve, and the team tagged the post with a Christmas hashtag.
Crew
The poster credits Marshall Robinson with the music, M. Sukumar with cinematography and Nagooran Ramachandran with editing. K.B. Nandhabalan is the art director, and Mahesh Mathew handled the stunts.
