A cop kills the wrong man. Now the city wants answers he can't give.
Magic is the story of Arun Raut, a high-ranking encounter specialist wracked with the immense guilt of mistakenly killing an innocent man during a bust in Mumbai.
Acting
Jitendra Joshi's guilt physically weighs on every frame.
Direction
Karmarkar makes Mumbai's chaos feel claustrophobic and inescapable.
Director
Ravindra Vijaya Karmarkar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Encounter killings remain legally and morally fraught in India; this film enters territory Bollywood rarely touches with nuance.
The title 'Magic' refers to police slang for staged encounters—making bodies disappear, making guilt reappear.
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