Director: Gautham Vasudev Menon
Joshua Imai Pol Kaakha is a 2024 Indian action-crime thriller directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon, dubbed in Persian and streaming on K-Time.
What is Joshua Imai Pol Kaakha about?
A hardened hitman wants out of the killing trade and takes what looks like a routine job: guard a public speaker whose words have made him a target. The assignment turns into something far messier once old rivals resurface and the line between protector and hunted starts to blur. Tamil-language crime cinema built the film around tense set pieces and a lead who says little but means every word, and the plot keeps circling back to a simple question — can a man built for violence actually walk away from it. Expect shootouts, betrayals, and a slow reveal of who is really pulling the strings behind the speaker's enemies.
Cast & crew
Varun Kamal leads as the reluctant hitman, with Raahei, Krishna Kulasekaran, Dhivyadharshini, Mansoor Ali Khan, Vichitra, Lizzie Antony and Kitty rounding out the cast under Gautham Vasudev Menon's direction, a name well known to Tamil crime-thriller audiences for tightly wound, character-first action.
Context & significance
Indian genre cinema, Tamil crime thrillers especially, has built a growing following among diaspora viewers who grew up on Bollywood but drifted toward the sharper, grittier South Indian action scene. A Persian dub makes a film like this one accessible without needing to read along, which matters for family viewing across generations.
Where & how to watch
Joshua Imai Pol Kaakha streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, ready to watch on phone, tablet, or the living-room screen once you're logged into a free K-Time account. No VPN and no geo-blocking to fight through — just sign in and press play. The K-Time interface itself runs in Farsi, so the whole experience, not just the audio, is built for Persian-speaking households.