Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders

2025 [HINDI]

Action / Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 79% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79%
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 4385 4.4K

Director

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Honey Trehan

Top cast

Akhilendra Mishra Photo
Akhilendra Mishra as SP Chauhan
Revathi Photo
Revathi as Dr. Rosie Panicker
Deepti Naval Photo
Deepti Naval as Guru Maa
Ila Arun Photo
Ila Arun as Sarita Kumari
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1.23 GB
1280*534
Hindi 2.0
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24 fps
2 hr 16 min
Seeds 16
2.52 GB
1920*802
Hindi 5.1
NR
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24 fps
2 hr 16 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CrimsonRaptor 6 / 10

?Poisoned Legacies and the Weight of Silent Mansions ?

There's something inherently watchable about Nawazuddin Siddiqui moving through a crime scene, his eyes cataloging details the way some people collect stamps. In Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders, he's doing that signature thing where he lets suspicion build in his posture before it ever reaches his voice, and for long stretches that tension carries the film even when the script loses its footing. The opening with the dying crows feels genuinely eerie, a Gothic flourish that promises atmosphere the rest of the movie only occasionally delivers. You get the sense this wants to be a slow-burn procedural steeped in dread, but it keeps tripping over its own sprawl.The mansion itself becomes a character, all shadowed hallways and too many rooms holding too many grievances, and there are moments when the camera lingers just right on a doorframe or a staircase where someone definitely died, letting the space do the storytelling. But then the film gets crowded. Radhika Apte brings warmth as Radha, grounding Jatil's obsessive investigation with something like domestic stability, and their scenes together have this lived-in quality that feels like actual history between two people. She's grown from the first film into someone who knows how to love a man who disappears into his work, and Apte plays that patience without making it feel like martyrdom.The problem is everyone else. Chitrangadha Singh's Neera should crackle with danger or vulnerability or both, but the script keeps her at arm's length, more symbol than person. Deepti Naval as the godwoman Geeta Vora gets maybe three scenes, and every time she appears you think, here we go, now something's going to crack open, but she's gone before she can leave a mark. Same with Sanjay Kapoor as the journalist Rajesh Chand Bansal, his sharp tongue mentioned more than demonstrated. It's the kind of casting that looks incredible on paper and then watches all that potential sit politely in the background while the plot churns forward.There's a sequence midway through where Jatil interrogates suspects in rapid succession, and the editing starts to feel almost rhythmic, cutting between faces as lies stack up like cordwood. That's when the film finds its groove, when it leans into the procedural mechanics and stops trying to be atmospheric. You start noticing how the sound design uses silence, how a clock ticking in an empty room can feel more menacing than any score. Then it veers into exposition dumps that deflate the mood entirely.The final twist does land, I'll give it that. It's genuinely unpredictable in a way that doesn't feel cheap, more like the film was holding its cards close the whole time and finally decided to show its hand. There's something satisfying about a mystery that doesn't telegraph its ending, even if the journey there felt uneven. The class commentary, the have-nots rising against the haves, threads through without becoming didactic, though it never digs as deep as it could.This will work for anyone who loves procedurals with strong lead performances and doesn't mind a slightly bloated supporting cast. If you're drawn to Nawazuddin's specific brand of watchfulness, the way he makes thinking look like action, you'll find enough here. But if you need every character to justify their presence or crave the kind of tight, coiled tension that never lets up, you might leave feeling like you watched a very good 90-minute film stretched across two hours. It's ambitious, occasionally gripping, and frustratingly close to something great.
Reviewed by deboo-c 8 / 10

An engaging sequel with good performances and an interesting premise.

This sequel to the 2020 film Raat Akeli Hai brings a fresh story with a new ensemble cast, centred around the Bansal murder case. The narrative weaves together superstition and hard reality, creating a layered investigative thriller.At the heart of the film is an honest police officer determined to uncover the truth. However, because this is a high-profile case, he is subtly pressured to close the investigation based on the first convenient theory. Whether he succumbs to that pressure or manages to pursue justice on his own terms forms the crux of the story.The performances are strong across the board. Nawazuddin Siddiqui once again delivers a restrained and compelling act, supported well by Revathi, Priyanka Setia, and Deepti Naval, who all add depth to the narrative.While the film is engaging and has several twists, it slightly misses reaching that true edge-of-the-seat intensity. That said, it remains a well-made thriller and definitely a good watch for fans of investigative dramas.
Reviewed by shehnam 6 / 10

Good and Gripping but ending wasn't impressive

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