

Story of a tumultuous and complex relationship between a father (Mohan Agashe) and son (Ajay Devgan), set against the backdrop of a thriving kidnapping industry in the Hindi heartland of Bihar.
Acting
Nana Patekar's Tabrez Alam — terrifying charisma you can't look away from.
Direction
Prakash Jha captures Bihar's lawlessness with unflinching documentary realism.
Writing
Ajay's spiral from idealism to complicity hits devastatingly hard.

Director
Prakash Jha
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real 'kidnap capital' era of 1990s Bihar, when abduction was a formalized industry with rate cards.
Nana Patekar researched by meeting actual kidnappers; his 'laugh while threatening' mannerism was improvised on set.