Alcohol release date: Allari Naresh’s film opens worldwide on 18 December

Allari Naresh’s Alcohol will reach cinemas worldwide on Friday, 18 December, almost a year after the New Year’s Day opening its makers first promised. Sithara Entertainments fixed the Alcohol release date in a post on its X handle at 11.08 am on Thursday, 12 November, and paired it with a new poster that reads “In cinemas Dec 18 worldwide”.

The poster is in black and white. Naresh sits in a dark suit in an armchair, his hands clasped in front of him, with the shelves of a bar lit up behind. The production house tagged the cast and crew and signed off with the hashtag #AlcoholFromDec18th.

From 1 January to 18 December

The film was meant to open on 1 January 2026. Sithara gave that date when it put the teaser on its YouTube channel on 4 September 2025, so the new date lands 351 days later than the first one. The teaser had drawn more than 24.7 lakh views on the channel by 13 November.

The campaign had opened on 30 June 2025, the actor’s birthday, with a first-look poster that showed his face half sunk below the surface of a liquid. Sithara presented the image as a look Naresh had never shown on screen.

Who made it

Meher Tej wrote and directed Alcohol, with Udbhav Raghunandan as co-writer. In the credits Sithara posted with the teaser, Ruhani Sharma, Niharika NM and Satya are billed after Naresh. Girish Kulkarni, Harshavardhan, Chaitanya Krishna, Ravindra Vijay, Raghu Babu, Venkatesh Kakumanu, Kireeti, Hariteja, Surya Bhagavan Das and Flora Jacob complete the cast list.

Two banners back the film, Sithara Entertainments and Fortune Four Cinemas, with S Naga Vamsi and Sai Soujanya as producers and Srikara Studios as presenter. Jiju Sunny is behind the camera, Niranjan Devaramane edits, and Vishal Abani is the production designer. Ghibran is credited with the music and Chaitan Bharadwaj with the background score.

The 18 December slot comes a week after Idupu Kayitham and Inka Em Anukoledhu, both dated for 11 December, and six days before Balakrishna’s Dada and Nagarjuna’s 100th film, King100, both set for 24 December. Sithara has not yet announced a date for the Alcohol trailer.