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Movie details
- Release date
- 20 January 2023
- Runtime
- 130 minutes
- Country
- India
- Languages
- Bengali
- Genres
- Thriller, Mystery, Crime
- Director
- Saptaswa Basu
- Writers
- Saptaswa Basu, Arnab Bhaumik, Subhasish Guha
- Cast
- Parambrata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee as Doctor Bakshi, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Subhashree Ganguly, Subhashree Ganguly as Mrinalini, Subhasree Ganguly, Akshay Kapoor, Bonny Sengupta as Aditya Sengupta, Bonny Sengupta
- Producers
- Saptarshi Sen, Shubhadeep Bhaumik
Spoiler-free synopsis
When a novelist gets trapped in a murder mystery, Doctor Bakshi uses his medical methods to uncover hidden secrets from the past.
For families
Editorial guidance
Context for discussing the story and deciding whether it fits your household.
Positive messages
Constructive themes or examples.The film can support discussion about empathy, accountability, honest communication and the consequences of personal choices. Its crime, mystery, thriller framework offers opportunities to notice resilience, loyalty, courage and the value of treating others with dignity. Families can also compare a character's immediate goals with the longer-term effect those decisions have on relatives, friends and the wider community.
Negative behaviours
Conduct that may need context.Characters may model poor judgment, secrecy, hostility, manipulation or other harmful conduct in service of the plot. The strongest content areas are violence, gore or frightening material (moderate), emotionally sensitive or disturbing themes (moderate), moments that may feel awkward in shared family viewing (moderate). These behaviours should not be read as approval simply because a central character uses them. Parents may need to give context about consent, respectful disagreement, lawful problem-solving and the real-world impact of aggression or deception.
Topics to discuss
Conversation starters after viewing.Ask why the main characters make their key choices, who is helped or harmed, and what safer alternatives were available. Discuss how the story presents family responsibility, truthfulness, social expectations and respect for other people. Families can also talk about whether the ending earns its resolution, how consequences are shown, and which scenes would change if the characters communicated earlier.
Final recommendation
Our family-viewing take
Recommended for ages 13 and above. Children are unlikely to be comfortable with the strongest material without close adult guidance. Teenagers may engage with the themes more thoughtfully, but the main concerns remain violence, gore or frightening material (moderate), emotionally sensitive or disturbing themes (moderate), moments that may feel awkward in shared family viewing (moderate). Shared family viewing is most comfortable when adults are prepared to pause, clarify context and discuss the consequences shown.
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