If
you love watching Malayalam series that bring in family drama and the chaos of a wedding with a nostalgic on-screen reunion, then you should watch Priya Prakash Varrier’s Cousins and Kalyanams. With a beloved lead pair returning on-screen after seven years, a multigenerational storyline that spans more than two decades, this series has it all. Releasing on JioHotstar on May 29, this Malayalam series will be the one that breaks the episode count record for Malayalam OTT, making it one of the most highly anticipated series. Here’s everything you need to know before you hit play.
Cousins And Kalyanams on OTT release date and platform
Cousins and Kalyanams is scheduled to hit the screens on May 29, 2026, only on JioHotstar. The series has been positioned for a multilingual release for a wider audience beyond Kerala. It will be aired in several languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi and Bengali. Setting another benchmark in the Malayalam industry with one of the broadest multilingual rollouts to exist on the OTT from the Malayalam industry.
What is Cousins and Kalyanams about?
Produced under IN10 Media,
Cousins and Kalyanam is written and created by Praveen Balakrishnan and directed by Vishnu Chandran. The series revolves around the lives of six cousins across 25 years and seven weddings. The show depicts the bond of friendship and the relationship with small yet blissful twists. It is being termed as the first long-form web show in Malayalam with more than 50 episodes.
Priya Prakash and Roshan Abdul Rahoof are the leads in the show. This show will be reuniting these two household names of the Malayalam industry together, on-screen, after their
Oru Adaar Love. The leads are being joined by Junais, Nandhana Varma, Subin Tarzan, Saniya Fathima, and Nanda Jayadev in prominent roles. For Varrier, the release timing of this series will work well after her appearance in Ajith Kumar’s
Good Bad Ugly, which has helped her earn renewed attention and a positive perception. Making this Malayalam comeback a well-placed one for her.The show follows a storyline of cousins whose lives keep colliding across years of weddings, celebrations and unexpected family chaos with love stories. However, old misunderstandings resurface at every Kalayanam. All these factors make it a perfect fit for viewers who are interested in watching a long-format feel-good binge rooted in a Kerala-based family.Seven weddings, six cousins over the period of 25 years, bring up the exact content that the Malayalam audience has always shown their love for. But this time it’s multilingual, marking the possibilities for the series to be loved equally or more than any other multilingual South Indian series available online.