Ashish Chanchlani is officially levelling up from internet superstardom to a mainstream streaming splash. The creator-actor, whose sketches have long mined campus chaos and young-adult madness for laughs, is now set to front a Prime Video India Original film that takes the familiar college setting and detonates it with genre mayhem.
Titled College Fest, the project brings together Prime Video India and The Viral Fever (TVF) for a horror comedy that is being positioned as a big, crowd-pleasing pivot for Chanchlani, and a timely genre swing for the streaming space.
The Latest Update: Prime Video Announces College Fest As A TVF Original Film
College Fest was unveiled at the Prime Video Presents showcase, with Prime Video India confirming it as Chanchlani’s debut on the service. The film is directed by Vaibhav Bandhoo, with Vijay Koshy producing under the TVF banner.
The hook is clean and instantly visual: a zombie outbreak rips through an engineering college campus, turning a celebratory college setting into a survival playground. It is the kind of high-concept setup that can deliver both the jump scares and the punchlines, while staying rooted in a world Indian audiences know all too well.
While Prime Video and TVF have not yet revealed a release date, additional cast announcements, or the film’s final streaming window as of March 19, 2026, the pairing of Chanchlani’s mass appeal with TVF’s youth storytelling track record makes this one of the sharper commercial plays in the horror comedy space.
What College Fest Signals For TVF And Prime Video
TVF has built a loyal audience by treating youth culture with lived-in detail, and College Fest looks designed to push that sensibility into a bigger, more cinematic genre pitch. By choosing zombies and setting the outbreak inside an engineering campus, the film taps into a recognisable ecosystem of fests, rivalries, friendships and everyday jugaad, then flips it into horror-driven spectacle.
For Prime Video, the title also underscores its continued push for Indian Originals that travel beyond standard drama and romance into clear, high-concept entertainment.
Ashish Chanchlani’s Recent And Upcoming Work
Chanchlani has remained most visible through his long-running YouTube brand, Ashish Chanchlani Vines, where he continues to release large-canvas comedy sketches. In the last few years, he also expanded into longer-form storytelling with projects released online, including the horror comedy series Ekaki (2025) on YouTube, where he took on multiple creative responsibilities in addition to performing.
With College Fest, Chanchlani’s next phase becomes more formalised within the premium streaming ecosystem, as he steps into a TVF-produced Prime Video Original film designed for a wider, cross-demographic audience.
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