A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.
Acting
Ranvir Shorey's dual performance is criminally underrated.
Direction
Rajat Kapoor's controlled chaos keeps every scene unpredictable.
Writing
Sharp dialogue that weaponizes awkward silences.
Director
Rajat Kapoor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rajat Kapoor funded this through friends and sheer stubbornness after studios rejected it for being 'too dark.' The entire budget was roughly what a Bollywood song sequence costs.
Mithya arrived during the 'multiplex revolution' when indie Hindi cinema briefly flourished—it's essentially a love letter to 90s American indies filtered through Mumbai's underbelly.
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