Pulavar, the Tamil film in which the late director Bharathiraja plays the title role, will open in theatres on 30 October 2026, according to the closing card of its official trailer, which music label Lahari Music released on 22 October 2026. Murukaiya wrote and directed the film, and Sameer Bharat Ram and Kasi Viswanathan produced it under the Super Talkies and White Nights Entertainment banners.
What the trailer confirms
The trailer, just under two minutes long, opens with a tribute card to Bharathiraja that carries his honorific "Iyakkunar Imayam", his birth year, 1941, and the Tamil word for "forever". Its final title card bills him "in & as" Pulavar and credits Ajmal Khan as composer.
Director Venkat Prabhu unveiled the trailer on X the same day and described the project in his post as Bharathiraja's final screen role: "His last film appearance."
Cast and crew
According to the credits Lahari Music published with the trailer, the cast also includes Raichal Rabecca, Hello Kandasamy, Ravichandran, Vetrivel Raja, Poobalam Sandhil, Chaplin Sundar and Jintha.
R.V. Saran handled cinematography, Dhanasekar edited the film, and A. Arunkumar is the art director, with dialogues by Poobalam Senthil. The makers describe Ajmal Khan's background music as a "gritty, rustic musical score".
The soundtrack includes a song titled Oru Urundai, sung by composer Santhosh Narayanan with lyrics by Ravi Murugaiya, and Lahari Music holds the audio rights. The trailer arrives 8 days before the scheduled release.
