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Credits and facts
Movie details
- Release date
- 22 June 2012
- Country
- India
- Languages
- Bengali
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Srijit Mukherji
- Cast
- Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Roopa Ganguly, Dipankar Dey, Silajit Majumder, Soumitra Chatterjee
Spoiler-free synopsis
A dark comedy-drama centered on suicide, suicidal intent and a fictional school that teaches methods of suicide, alongside relationship betrayal and emotional crisis.
For families
Editorial guidance
Context for discussing the story and deciding whether it fits your household.
Positive messages
Constructive themes or examples.Constructive viewing themes can include empathy, responsibility, honesty and understanding the consequences of characters’ choices. In Hemlock Society, parents can also use the verified drama context to discuss how people respond to conflict, pressure and relationships. Where the story presents flawed decisions, those moments can support useful conversations about safer alternatives and better judgement. Because the available research is not a complete scene-by-scene review, these positive themes are framed as discussion opportunities rather than claims that every theme dominates the film.
Negative behaviours
Conduct that may need context.The strongest verified or genre-supported concern is suicide, suicidal intent, descriptions of suicide methods and severe emotional crisis. Characters may make harmful, risky or dishonest choices that younger viewers could misunderstand without context. Parents should also allow for period-specific stereotypes, social attitudes or comic behaviour that may have aged poorly. Where detailed scene-level documentation was unavailable, this guide deliberately does not label violence, sexual material, harsh language, substance use or disturbing themes as absent merely because a catalog source did not describe them.
Topics to discuss
Conversation starters after viewing.Parents can discuss which choices in Hemlock Society protect other people and which create harm, whether characters face fair consequences, and how the story handles trust, relationships and responsibility. Another useful topic is media literacy: an official CBFC certificate, an OTT platform label and an editorial age recommendation serve different purposes. For older children, ask how the drama conventions shape the way conflict and consequences are presented, and what the story might handle differently in real life.
Final recommendation
Our family-viewing take
Suggested minimum age: 16+. The family-viewing verdict is use_caution; for children it is no, for teenagers use_caution, and for parents mostly. The strongest concerns are suicide, suicidal intent, descriptions of suicide methods and severe emotional crisis. Because an exact title-specific Indian CBFC certificate page and a complete scene-by-scene advisory were not verified, this is a cautious editorial recommendation rather than an official classification. Shared viewing is most comfortable for viewers at or above the suggested age, while younger or particularly sensitive children should have a parental preview first.
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