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Ajay Devgn’s ‘Chauhaan’: Action Blockbuster Set for Oct 2027
Studio CarryOnHarry Entertainment Desk | 25 June 2026
Ajay Devgn’s ‘Chauhaan’: The Action Blockbuster Set to Dominate October 2027
Bollywood’s action icon Ajay Devgn has officially announced his next big-screen spectacle — Chauhaan — a grand action entertainer that has already set the internet ablaze with its electrifying teaser. The announcement carries deep personal significance, unveiled on the birth anniversary of his late father and legendary stunt director, Veeru Devgan.
Chauhaan: A Tribute and a Thunderous Return
Devgn chose the occasion of his father’s birth anniversary to drop the official teaser for Chauhaan, a move widely seen as a heartfelt homage to the man who shaped Bollywood’s action landscape for decades. Veeru Devgan was one of Hindi cinema’s most celebrated stunt choreographers, and this announcement adds a deeply emotional layer to what promises to be a visceral, larger-than-life entertainer.
The film marks Ajay Devgn’s powerful return to the action genre — the territory where he first made his mark and continues to reign supreme. For fans tracking Bollywood’s top stories, this announcement is one of the most anticipated of the year.
Aanand L Rai at the Helm
What makes Chauhaan even more compelling is the creative force behind the camera. The film is a collaboration between Ajay Devgn and acclaimed filmmaker Aanand L Rai, a director known for crafting stories with emotional depth and mass appeal. This partnership between a powerhouse performer and a visionary director is generating enormous buzz across the entertainment industry coverage circuit.
Mark Your Calendars: October 1, 2027
Chauhaan is officially scheduled for a theatrical release on October 1, 2027 — a strategic date that has historically welcomed some of Bollywood’s biggest blockbusters.
Key Highlights at a Glance
- Film Title: Chauhaan
- Lead Actor: Ajay Devgn
- Director/Producer: Aanand L Rai collaboration
- Release Date: October 1, 2027 (Theatrical)
- Announcement Date: Veeru Devgan’s birth anniversary, June 25, 2026
- Genre: Action entertainer
Box Office Expectations Running High
With Ajay Devgn’s proven track record in the action genre and Aanand L Rai’s storytelling pedigree, Chauhaan is already shaping up as one of the most talked-about Bollywood projects on the horizon. The October 1 release window further signals the makers’ confidence in delivering a major cinematic event.
Stay tuned to Studio Carry On Harry for all the latest updates as this blockbuster journey unfolds.
– Entertainment Desk, Studio Carry On Harry
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Editor's Choice
Audiences Are Rating ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and ‘Resident Evil’ Among 2026’s Hottest Films
Balle Balle Radio™ Entertainment Desk
Two 2026 releases, "Resident Evil" and "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," are tied at the top of Rotten Tomatoes’ running Verified Hot list, each pulling in more than 5,000 Verified ratings from ticket-buying audiences, according to the site’s latest update.
Just as Certified Fresh represents critics’ consensus via the Tomatometer, Verified Hot is its audience equivalent, requiring a minimum 90% score on the Popcornmeter using ratings exclusively from Fandango ticket buyers, according to the guide. Rotten Tomatoes introduced the badge to give paying audiences their own equivalent stamp of approval, separate from critical consensus.
Behind the two leaders in the largest-sample tier, "The Odyssey" ranks second with over 5,000 Verified ratings, followed by "Project Hail Mary," "Obsession," "Hoppers" and "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie." Several of these titles also turn up on other year-end and mid-year lists tracking 2026’s most-discussed films, including "The Odyssey," "Project Hail Mary" and "Obsession" among the movies cited as generating the most audience conversation this year.
In the next tier, covering films with 1,000 to 5,000 Verified ratings, "Avengers: Endgame," "Heart of the Beast," "Forgotten Island" and "Practical Magic 2" share the top spot, with "Coyote vs. Acme," "The Invite," a musical performance film featuring Stray Kids and others filling out the rest of the ranking. Rotten Tomatoes notes a third, smaller tier of 250 to 999 ratings exists for titles still building an audience track record, which it describes as newer and more niche releases.
New films earning a 90% Popcornmeter score are added weekly, with placement within each tier based on cumulative Verified rating volume.
Studio CarryOnHarry will be watching whether films lower in the 1,000-to-5,000 tier gain enough ratings to crack the top bracket as the list updates through the rest of 2026.
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Editor's Choice
Revisiting Octavia Butler’s “Wild Seed,” the 1980 novel that opens her Patternist series
Balle Balle Radio™ Entertainment Desk
Octavia E. Butler’s "Wild Seed," released in 1980, remains one of the author’s most widely read novels decades after its release. It opens Butler’s five-book Patternist cycle, a five-book speculative fiction cycle, and continues to draw new readers and critical attention.
Butler, who died in 2006, is widely regarded as one of the first Black women to gain major recognition in American science fiction, a genre that offered her few peers when she began publishing in the 1970s. Her work is frequently cited within Afrofuturism, the broader cultural movement that uses speculative fiction, technology, and alternate histories to explore the experiences of the African diaspora and to imagine Black futures beyond the constraints of the present.
"Wild Seed" is addresses themes of gender, healing roles, and the experiences of Black women, reflecting the novel’s focus on characters navigating power, transformation, and survival across generations. Readers and reviewers have consistently described it as a character-driven work rather than a plot-heavy one, with its two central figures carrying the novel through sustained psychological and emotional depth. The book is the first in the five-volume Patternist series and has drawn an active readership on platforms like Goodreads, where it holds a strong average rating from tens of thousands of readers.
The novel has also found renewed life in reading groups and community discussions in recent years, often paired with other Afrofuturist or speculative work, a sign of Butler’s lasting pull on readers well outside the genre’s traditional audience.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees "Wild Seed" as a useful entry point for readers curious about Butler’s influence on contemporary speculative fiction, and worth a look for anyone building out an Afrofuturism reading list.
About the Author: An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.
[Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]:
Octavia E Butler (1947–2006)
> I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler’s Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I’d never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-Ameri
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