Birthday cake, dead husband, and everyone's a suspect — Kerala's domestic noir goes deliciously unhinged.
Sara’s husband Tom gets food-poisoned after a birthday party, and police suspect it was a deliberate attempt to murder him. And they are after the culprit.
Acting
Mamta Mohandas serves ice-cold wife energy that keeps you guessing.
Production
Upper-middle-class Bangalore homes never looked this suffocatingly beige.
Director
Prasanth Murali
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lalbagh deliberately inverts the 'Kerala family film' — warm communal meals become weaponized, and the Bangalore setting lets Malayalam cinema examine NRI aspirational rot without leaving home.
Director Prasanth Murali shot Sara's kitchen scenes in his actual aunt's Lalbagh residence; the claustrophobic blocking was accidental until he noticed how trapped everyone looked in real family photos.
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