Kalki 2898 AD starring Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan among others is a Telugu language epic science fiction, written and directed by Nag Ashwin of Mahanati (2018) fame. The movie released in theaters on June 27, 2024, and went on to collect a whopping  Rs. 1,100 Cr. in 28 days of global theatrical run.

Kalki 2898 AD's Hindi version is gearing up for a digital premiere on Netflix. The streaming platform has officially announced that Kalki 2898 AD Hindi's OTT release date is August 22, 2024. Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam versions of the movie premiere on Amazon Prime Video the same Thursday. 

A production venture of Vyjayanthi Movies, Kalki 2898 AD's story begins from 3102 BC, following the Kurukshetra War, also known as the Mahabharata war, as described in Hindu religious scripts. Ashwatthama (Amitabh Bachchan) is cursed by Lord Vishnu's 8th incarnation Lord Krishna for wielding a weapon on an unborn child.

6,000 years after this, in 2898 AD, Ashwatthama crosses paths with a reincarnated Karna (Prabhas), who fought alongside him in the Kurukshetra war. How the duo goes from fighting over SUM-80 (Deepika Padukone), a woman destined to give birth to Lord Vishnu's 10th incarnation Kalki, to protecting her life together from a 200 year old totalitarian God named Supreme Yaskin (Kamal Haasan), is what forms the rest of Kalki 2898 AD.

Kalki 2898 AD comes with a runtime of 181 minutes. The movie has Djordje Stojiljkovic for cinematography, Santhosh Narayanan for music, and cameo appearances by Vijay Devarakonda (as Arjuna), Dulquer Salmaan, Malvika Nair (as Uttara), Mrunal Thakur, SS Rajamouli, Ram Gopal Varma, Telugu director KV Anudeep, among others.