As the monsoon ends and the festive season arrives, Bollywood gears up to deliver a dynamic cinematic buffet in September 2025. This line-up offers Hindi cum pan-Indian films blending pulse-pounding action, courtroom hilarity, historical exploration, rural drama, supernatural chillers, indie storytelling, and gangster thrillers. Here’s a closer look at the most hyped Bollywood movies coming this September that are set to light up theatres, film festivals and OTT platforms.
Top Bollywood movies scheduled to release in September 2025
Baaghi 4 (September 5)
Baaghi 4 is going to be the 4th instalment of the action franchise. This film will present jaw-dropping stunts, loyalty, vengeance, and intense global espionage. It’s slated to hit theatres on September 5, 2025.
A. Harsha makes his directorial debut in Bollywood through this film. It brings a fresh perspective to the action genre while retaining mass appeal. The film is produced by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment under Sajid Nadiadwala’s banner. Tiger Shroff (reprising his role as Ronnie) appears as a cyber-terrorist antagonist. He is joined by Sanjay Dutt as the menacing antagonist. Sonam Bajwa and Harnaaz Sandhu both star in leading roles. Harnaaz is making her Bollywood debut through this film.
The detailed plot elements remain under wraps. In this grittier and globally inclined narrative, Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) faces a deadly adversary played by Sanjay Dutt. Ronnie appears to be recruited by a covert international agency to eliminate a global terror threat.
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The film is written by Tasha Bhambra and Sparsh Khetarpal. Its cinematography is done by Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran and editing by Tammiraju. The musical lineup of the film is expansive. Songs are composed by artists like Badshah, Tanishk Bagchi, and Payal Dev. Sanchit and Ankit Balhara handle the background composer.
The Bengal Files: Right to Life
On the very same date, The Bengal Files will release. It is a bold historical-political drama representing the grim realities of events such as the Noakhali genocide and Calcutta’s Direct Action Day. The narrative is poised to spark conversation with its unflinching portrayal of a forgotten chapter of history.
Directed and written by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, The Bengal Files (2025) film is going to be the 3rd and concluding chapter of his Files Trilogy, following The Tashkent Files (2019) and The Kashmir Files (2022). Though the film was initially titled 'The Delhi Files: The Bengal Chapter', it was later renamed 'The Bengal Files: Right to Life'.
Veteran actors like Mithun Chakraborty and Anupam Kher star in this film. Notably, Anupam Kher’s first look as Mahatma Gandhi attracted the audience. Pallavi Joshi takes on the extraordinary challenge of portraying a 100-year-old woman in the film.
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The cast line also includes Darshan Kumar, Simrat Kaur, Saswata Chatterjee, Namashi Chakraborty, Rajesh Khera, Puneet Issar, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Sourav Das, and Mohan Kapur.
Madharasi
Madharasi is also arriving on September 5. It is a pan-Indian collaboration written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss and produced by N. Srilakshmi Prasad under the Sri Lakshmi Movies banner.
Vidyut Jammwal stars in this film (in the role of Sivakarthikeyan) as the antagonist. Rukmini Vasanth makes her Tamil debut through this film. The ensemble cast also features Biju Menon, Vikranth, and Shabeer Kallarakkal. The technical crew includes Sudeep Elamon on cinematography and National Award winner A. Sreekar Prasad as editor. The action sequences are choreographed by Kevin Kumar, and Anirudh Ravichander does the music composition.
The film Madharasi brings a blend of romance and action. The teaser trailer released on Sivakarthikeyan’s 40th birthday features a dramatic sequence with a high-speed car crash and a glimpse of him facing off against armed adversaries. These sequences signal intense visuals and creative storytelling. Though it has a unique narrative twist, a comparison to Ghajini can be drawn. Murugadoss describes the film as an “action thriller with a love story at its heart”.
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Bayaan
Bayaan marks its world premiere on September 7 at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in the prestigious Discovery section. Written and directed by Bikas Ranjan Mishra, it is the only Indian film featured in that category this year. Though not a theatrical release in India that month, the film's festival debut makes it a standout September event.
Bayaan centres on Roohi Kartar (played by Huma Qureshi), a rookie detective dispatched from Delhi to a remote Rajasthani town. In her first case, she investigates allegations against a revered cult leader accused via an anonymous letter of sexual misconduct. As she digs deeper, she grapples with entrenched power structures, institutional complicity, and cultural resistance.
This female-led police procedural film is produced by Platoon One Films, led by Shiladitya Bora. The co-producers include Summit Studios (Madhu Sharma), Kunal Kumar, Anuj Gupta, and Switzerland-based Guidant Films (Sadik Keshwani). It has also received support from the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was developed through Film Independent’s Global Media Makers LA Residency.
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