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Blackmail (2018)

Blackmail poster
Directed by
Abhinay Deo
Genre
drama film, black comedy film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 18m
Rated
15
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 107 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man in his late 30s with a dull job and a boring marriage discovers his wife is cheating on him. He decides to blackmail his wife's lover.

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What happens

Blackmail (stylised as Blackमेल) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film co-produced and directed by Abhinay Deo. The film stars Irrfan Khan, Kirti Kulhari, Arunoday Singh and Divya Dutta in lead roles and is produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Apurba Sengupta and Rohit KaduDeshmukh under the banner of T-Series Films and RDP Motion Pictures. Blackmail depicts the life of a married-man in his late 30s stuck in a full day-time job and unexciting life but things turn after he finds that his wife is having an extramarital affair. The film had its theatrical release in India on 6 April 2018 and turned out to be a Sleeper Hit at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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