Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.
Acting
Alia Bhatt's raw, trembling breakthrough performance.
Direction
Imtiaz Ali at his least commercial, most sincere.
Score
A.R. Rahman's highway hymns that ache beautifully.
Director
Imtiaz Ali
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alia Bhatt was 19 during filming and insisted on no makeup for most scenes, with Imtiaz Ali shooting chronologically to capture her genuine emotional unraveling.
The film was conceived during a restless drive when Ali wondered what would happen if a kidnapped woman didn't want to be rescued — a radical subversion of the 'damsel' trope in Indian cinema.
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