Review: Star Turns From Nawaz, Radhika In 'Raat Akeli Hai'

Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Khalid Tyabji, Padmavati Rao, Gyanendra Tripathi, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Nishant Dahiya

A car - seen in a long shot - tears along a highway, its headlights piercing the darkness. The vehicle stops at an interstate border checkpost. The barrier is manually raised. The Ambassador drives through. A truck waiting further up the road revs up and tails the car. This, the opening sequence of Raat Akeli Hai, A Netflix original film directed by debutant Honey Trehan, culminates in a double murder. The stage is set for a killer thriller.

Five years on, the action shifts to a sprawling mansion on the outskirts of Kanpur. Rocked by another murder, the abode is fraught with intrigue of Shakespearean proportions. An assiduous police investigator digs his heels in with the aim of unearthing secrets that lie buried with the dead and in the hearts of the survivors - deviants, accomplices and victims alike.