A young actress is found to have committed suicide at the filming location. Things take a different turn when further investigation reveals it to be a cold-blooded murder and the killer is someone within the film crew.
Acting
Legends playing exaggerated versions of themselves — deliciously petty.
Direction
Chopra weaponizes the camera like a suspect's alibi.
Writing
Self-aware script that mocks the very industry creating it.
Director
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Naseeruddin Shah
Captain Rajeev Bakshi
Amol Palekar
Amol Palekar
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi
Soni Razdan
Soni Razdan
Sushma Seth
Leela Bahal
Ajit Vachani
Dayal Prabhu
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Chandran
Pankaj Kapur
Kuku
Avtar Gill
Dilawar Khan
Pavan Malhotra
Pankaj
Noni Ganguly
Partho Chaterjee
Veerendra Saxena
Shukla ji
Sudhir Mishra
Michael
Uday Chandra
Police Inspector
Kamal Chopra
Ghulam Mustafa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire cast agreed to work for scale because Chopra convinced them the meta-concept was too delicious to pass up.
Released when parallel cinema was peaking, this bridges art-house tension with mainstream star power — basically the unicorn of 80s Hindi cinema.
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