After his boss, Jai Singh, commits suicide, Subhash, a chauffeur, hatches a plan to win his insurance money. He teams up with Jai's wife, Mallika, to make the suicide look like a well-planned murder.
Acting
Paresh Rawal's sleazy everyman anchors every frame.
Writing
Dialogue that lets villains be pathetically human.
Direction
Shivam Nair milks tension from cheap motel rooms.
Director
Shivam Nair
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on James Hadley Chase's 1955 novel 'A Tiger for Malgudi'—no wait, that's wrong. It's actually adapted from a Gujarati play by Uttam Gada, itself loosely inspired by Chase's pulp tradition.
The 2008 release was buried by the Mumbai attacks' aftermath; this cynical little thriller about exploiting tragedy accidentally became invisible during actual national tragedy.
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