December 2023 is going to be a busy month for moviegoers, with multiple big-budget films scheduled to release. On December 1st, Ranbir Kapoor’s action thriller Animal will clash with Vicky Kaushal’s period biopic Sam Bahadur. A week later, on December 8th, Vijay Sethupathi and Katrina Kaif’s Merry Christmas will go head-to-head with Sidharth Malhotra’s action film Yodha. Finally, the biggest clash of all will take place during Christmas week, when Shah Rukh Khan’s Dunki and Prabhas’s Salaar are both scheduled to hit theaters.
As per Bollywood Hungama reports, the Manoj Bajpayee-starrer Joram will also be released on December 1st. A source told the publication that the film has received a great response at film festivals, and the producers are confident that it will be successful when it releases in theaters.
The source continued, saying that the Zee team is aware of the competition from Animal and Sam Bahadur, but they are confident that Joram will get enough screens and be marketed effectively. They also pointed to Zee Studios’ success with small-time films in the past, such as the recent sleeper hit 12th Fail.
Joram, also starring Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Rajshri Deshpande, is directed by Devashish Makhija (Ajji, Bhonsle). The film has been acclaimed at film festivals, including Rotterdam, Sydney, and Busan, and will screen at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival on November 2nd and 3rd.
Joram, a Hindi survival thriller drama film written and directed by Devashish Makhija, is scheduled to be released on December 1st, 2023. The film stars Manoj Bajpayee, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Rajshri Deshpande. It is produced by Zee Studios and Makhijafilm.
The film follows a desperate man and his infant daughter fleeing a system that wants them crushed at any cost. It has been described as a “tense, breathless survival thriller across a brutal landscape of devastated forests, blind greed, rebellion, and the bloody aftershocks of ‘development’.