Everyone's lying, the wife's too calm, and the detective's digging up skeletons from 20 years ago.
Famous musician Sohel is found dead in his bedroom. His wife Neela was sleeping peacefully when the body is discovered. Sohel's childhood friend detective Rashed took charge of the investigation. Although Neela seems to be the prime suspect, everyone around Shohel is not telling the truth. When the present is not serving Rashed anything fruitful, he dives into the past. Unsetting events start to unveil and we learn that lie is nothing but a badly expressed truth. How Sohel was killed?
Acting
Mehazabien Chowdhury's controlled stillness as Neela—innocent or ice-cold?
Direction
Zahed's timeline weaving keeps two decades uneasily coexisting.
Writing
That title isn't just clever—it's the entire thesis statement backwards.
Director
Vicky Zahed
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
"Redrum" is "murder" backwards—a deliberate choice by Zahed who wanted audiences to subconsciously read the film in reverse. The 8.0 TMDB rating from only 12 votes suggests this Bangladeshi thriller is still flying criminally under the radar.
The film interrogates Bangladesh's elite creative class—the musician, his patron, the childhood friends who became successful while Sohel's promise curdled. It's as much about Dhaka's cultural hierarchies as it is about the killing itself.
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