The Paradise skips trailer, holds September 24 date

The Paradise will arrive in cinemas on September 24 without a conventional trailer. Nani and director Srikanth Odela have confirmed the unusual release plan while insisting that the date will hold, despite two earlier postponements and a final stretch of work that has the team racing the calendar.

Producer Sudhakar Cherukuri addressed the speculation around another delay directly. “The film is arriving on September 24,” he said. “We are very happy with the way things have shaped up.”

Odela believes the lack of a trailer could work in the film’s favour rather than leave audiences unprepared. “Personally, I feel a film like this is better experienced without a trailer,” he said. The finished cut runs for two hours and 49 minutes, making this a substantial leap of faith in the glimpse, teaser and songs already released.

The story is not only the violent uprising suggested by those promos. Odela describes it as a mother-son drama rooted in a marginalised community whose people fight after finding that the country they served has no place for them. The violence, Nani said, grows from that emotional pressure rather than existing for its own sake.

“The Paradise is the most tiring film of my career, both physically and mentally,” Nani said. The actor and several colleagues, including Sampoornesh Babu, were injured while filming its elaborate action. Nani pointed in particular to the difficulty of performing those sequences with Jadal’s long dreadlocks, a visual element that has defined the character from the first posters.

This is the third release date attached to the film. It first moved from March to August 21 as Odela asked for more time, then shifted again to September 24 with the teaser. That footage introduced Jadal as a leader rising from oppression amid prison fights, swords and open revolt, but held the mother-son relationship out of view. Skipping the trailer preserves that part of the story for theatres.

The film reunites Nani and Odela after Dasara, the coal-belt drama that pushed both towards a larger audience in 2023. Nani spoke admiringly of a director stubborn enough to pursue every detail, while also recalling Odela’s willingness to admit that time management had become a weakness during production. Odela once joked that he should assist S.S. Rajamouli just to learn how to manage it better.

Mohan Babu plays an important role in an ensemble that also includes Kayadu Lohar, Sonali Kulkarni, Raghav Juyal and Sampoornesh Babu. Anirudh Ravichander has composed the music, with Ch Sai behind the camera, Navin Nooli editing and Avinash Kolla handling production design.

For Nani, the punishing shoot and the last-minute finish have not altered the promise. The Paradise opens worldwide on September 24 in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, English and Spanish.