Drama, Thriller  •  2026  •  140 min

Ikka (2026)

Ikka poster

Ikka (2026)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating

Not Available

Political: Not Available
Diversity: Not Rated
Family Values: Leans Traditional

Viewer Rating
5.4

Overview

Ikka is a Hindi legal thriller in which a celebrated lawyer is forced to defend a man he believes is guilty, because a loved one's life hangs in the balance. The moral engine here is family: a parent's willingness to compromise everything to save a child frames traditional family bonds as the highest moral authority in the story. That framing, combined with a conventional narrative structure and an entirely Indian cast in an original Indian context, produces a Leans Traditional label. No political, religious, or identity-based signals pull in the other direction. The film is essentially a courtroom pressure cooker built around parental sacrifice and ethical collapse.


Starring Cast

Sunny Deol  •   Akansha Ranjan Kapoor  •   Akshaye Khanna


Where to watch

Detailed Bias Analysis

Not Available

Primary

Political: Not Available
Diversity: Not Rated

The film is a Hindi-language legal thriller with an entirely Indian cast portraying Indian characters in a conventional story about lawyers, privilege, and justice.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Traditional
Confidence: Medium

The film centers on a nuclear family where the devoted father and mother prioritize saving their daughter's life above all else, forcing the principled lawyer protagonist to compromise his ethics for her survival via biological family ties; this frames traditional parental sacrifice and marital partnership as the ultimate good.

LGBTQ: Not Available
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

No transgender characters or themes appear in the legal thriller centered on a lawyer's moral dilemma defending an accused man to secure a life-saving transplant for his daughter.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Ikka is an original legal thriller and Hindi remake of the 2014 Tamil film Kaththi, with all named characters portrayed by actors matching their canonical or story-established genders and no legacy figures recast across gender lines.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Ikka is an original Indian legal thriller with no source material or prior canon establishing any character's race. All named characters are portrayed by Indian actors in roles with Indian names and context, with no mismatches or recasts from established baselines.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

5.4

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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N/A
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5.4

Critic Ratings

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