Darlings (2022)

Original title

डार्लिंग्स

Directed by

Jasmeet K Reen

Genre

black comedy, thriller film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

16

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman endures an abusive marriage and plots revenge against her husband. She gets help from her mother to carry out a darkly comedic scheme.

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What happens

Darlings is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film co-written and directed by Jasmeet K. Reen, in her directorial debut, from a screenplay by Parveez Sheikh, and produced by Alia Bhatt (in her debut production), Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma under the banners Red Chillies Entertainment and Eternal Sunshine Productions. The film stars Bhatt herself, Shefali Shah, Vijay Varma and Roshan Mathew in the lead roles. Darlings was released on Netflix on 5 August 2022. It received positive reviews from the critics. The film received more than 10 million watching hours globally in its opening weekend, the highest for any non-English language original Indian film. At the 2023 Filmfare OTT Awards, Darlings received 11 nominations, including Best Web Original Film, Best Director in a Web Original Film (Reen) and Best Actor in a Web Original Film (Varma), and won five awards, including Best Actress in a Web Original Film (Bhatt) and Best Supporting Actress in a Web Original Film (Shah). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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