One of Malayalam cinema’s most famous crime thrillers, Drishyam, which has been remade in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil, is set to close out of the franchise with the third instalment. Directed by Jeethu Joseph, Drishyam 3, starring Mohanlal in the lead as Georgekutty, will be in theatres on May 21, 2026. Ahead of the film’s theatrical outing, Jeethu and team are set to give audiences the first sneak peek into what is in store this time around with a teaser that will drop on April 29 at 5 pm.
Drishyam 3 also stars Meena, Ansiba Hassan, Esther Anil, Asha Sharath, Siddique, Murali Gopy, Saikumar, KB Ganesh Kumar, Irshad, Shobha Mohan, Santhi Mayadevi, among others. Music is by Anil Johnson and cinematography by Satheesh Kurup. The film will pick up four years after the events of Drishyam 2 and the impact of the same on Georgekutty and family. In earlier media interactions, Jeethu had said that he wants audiences to come to theatres
Drishyam follows the family of cable TV operator Georgekutty, whose family is forced to construct an elaborate tale about their whereabouts on a particular day, when the son of a high-ranking police official went missing. The boy, Varun, had been harassing Georgekutty’s daughter Anju (Ansiba), and ends up dead following an altercation with her and her mother, Rani (Meena). While Georgekutty takes care of the body, the unbreakable alibi he creates for the entire family saves them.
In the second film, the story picks up a few years later, with Georgekutty now the owner of a movie hall and prepping to produce a film. New evidence leads the police to discover Varun’s remains, but Georgekutty manages to switch the bones and keep his family safe yet again. The film ended with him providing Varun’s family the actual remains for them to conduct his last rites.Netizens speculate that the third film will have Georgekutty’s younger daughter throw the rest of the family under the bus.
