Chehre (2021)

Original title

चेहरे

Directed by

Rumi Jaffery

Genre

drama film, psychological thriller, mystery film, thriller film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 19m

Rated

12

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An older man invites a young businessman to a remote house for a dinner party. The evening turns into a tense game where the guests put the newcomer on trial for a past crime.

suspensefulmysterioustheatricalclaustrophobicintellectualdarkunpredictableslow-burn

What happens

Chehre (transl. Faces) is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Rumi Jaffery and produced by Anand Pandit with Saraswati Entertainment Private Limited. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi in lead roles, alongside Krystle D'Souza, Rhea Chakraborty, Siddhanth Kapoor, Annu Kapoor, Alexx O'Nell, Samir Soni, Dhritiman Chatterjee and Raghubir Yadav in supporting roles. It is an uncredited adaptation of the 1956 German novel A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which had earlier been adapted in Marathi as Shantata! Court Chaalu Aahe (1971), in Kannada as Male Nilluvavarege (2015) and in Bengali as Anusandhan (2021). The film was announced on 11 April 2019 and filming began on 10 May 2019. It was scheduled for a theatrical release on 17 July 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released in theatres on 27 August 2021. Upon release, the film was a box office disaster, grossing only ₹8 crore against its ₹25 crore budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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