St. Teresa’s Goes Dark: Shanaya Kapoor’s Student of the Year: After Dark Premieres on JioHotstar Tomorrow

Forget the pom-poms and the prom-night glamour — St. Teresa’s has a murder to solve. Student of the Year: After Dark, the dark new spin-off of Karan Johar’s beloved campus franchise, premieres exclusively on JioHotstar on Friday 13 November 2026, and it marks Shanaya Kapoor’s OTT debut in a double role. Shanaya plays twin sisters Aayesha and Aditi Malik. Aayesha is the school’s queen bee — until her body is found drowned and frozen inside a lake. Aditi enrols at the elite St. Teresa’s boarding school, going undercover to unravel the mystery surrounding her twin sister’s suspicious death, questioning everyone Aayesha knew as shocking secrets begin to surface. Rivalry, hidden truths and a school competition that takes a sinister turn: this is Student of the Year stripped to its bones and rebuilt as a thriller. Directed by Reema Maya and produced by Dharmatic Entertainment — Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla and Apoorva Mehta — the series also stars Divik Sharma, Manya Grover, Mannat Duggal, Sheeba Chaddha and Harsh Chhaya. Johar himself has called it a phoenix rising from the franchise that began in 2012, saying the team is “breaking every rule we set” with a genre-defying direction and Shanaya’s powerful double-role performance. Reema Maya has promised audiences: “This isn’t going to be what you expect.” It is a bold swing — taking a franchise built on romance, music and campus sparkle and turning it into a nail-biting murder mystery for a new generation. Whether you grew up on the original films or are meeting St. Teresa’s for the first time, Friday is the night to enrol. Class is in session, and this time, it is after dark.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter India