Love & War: Bhansali's Film Wraps, Eyes January 21, 2027
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Love & War has wrapped and is reported for January 21, 2027, with Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal.
Love & War, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film with Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal, has finished shooting and is reported for release on January 21, 2027. It is the one major Hindi film of the winter that is not due in 2026, and this report covers what is confirmed.
What is confirmed
[IndiaToday.in](http://IndiaToday.in) and the Indian Express reported in September 2026 that shooting had wrapped and that the release date is January 21, 2027. Sanjay Leela Bhansali directs, and the three leads are Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal, according to the Wikipedia list of 2026 Hindi films.
Plot details have not been officially released, and we have not seen a confirmed synopsis. Anything beyond the cast and the director is speculation, so we have left it out.
The festival remark
Alia Bhatt said she would love the film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. That is a wish, not an announcement, and no festival has confirmed a screening. Alia attended Cannes in 2026 as L'Oréal Paris's global ambassador, according to CNBC TV18 and NDTV, so the remark came from someone with a current connection to the festival.
Ranbir Kapoor's calendar
Ranbir Kapoor is the lead of Ramayana: Part 1, due on November 5, 2026, and of Love & War, due on January 21, 2027. Part 2 of Ramayana is planned for Diwali 2027. The next twelve months will therefore bring three major films with Ranbir in them, if the dates hold. Dates for large Hindi films have shifted often this year, so each should be treated as provisional.
Alia Bhatt's calendar
Alia Bhatt's other release this year was Alpha, which opened on July 3 and closed at about ₹99.07 crore worldwide on Koimoi's count, with a Losing label. Love & War will therefore be her next major release. We found no confirmed date for any other film of hers.
Vicky Kaushal
Vicky Kaushal is listed as one of the three leads. No published source we reviewed gives details of his role. We do not report any claim about the character or the plot.
The release window
Border 2 opened in January 2026, the same part of the calendar, and finished at about ₹362.76 crore India net on Koimoi's list, the second highest of 2026. A January release has been a strong slot this year, though one film's result is not a pattern.
A note on sources
Release dates for films that are still in post-production come from entertainment reports and can change. We have used only reports from named outlets and have not relied on social media rumours or unsourced claims about budgets, music or runtime.
What we do not know
We do not know the budget, the runtime, the number of songs or the plot. We do not know whether a trailer is planned for 2026. And we do not know whether the film will play at a festival before its release.
The bottom line
Love & War is a finished film with a confirmed trio of leads, a major director and a reported January 21, 2027 date. Its first official promotional material has not yet appeared. Until it does, the safest summary is a cast and a date, and readers should wait for the makers' own announcement before treating either as final.
Sources
*Cover photo: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Wikimedia Commons, *[*https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bollywood_actor_Shri_Ranbir_Kapoor_speaking_to_media_persons_in_connection_with_opening_ceremony_of_18th_International_Children’s_Film_festival_of_India_%28ICFFI%29,_in_Hyderabad._The_CEO,_Children's_Film_Society_India.jpg*](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bollywood_actor_Shri_Ranbir_Kapoor_speaking_to_media_persons_in_connection_with_opening_ceremony_of_18th_International_Children’s_Film_festival_of_India_%28ICFFI%29,_in_Hyderabad._The_CEO,_Children's_Film_Society_India.jpg)* (GODL-India).*