A Tautly Crafted Thriller

A strong sense of place and controlled performances anchor the film, even as narrative flow slows occasionally due to excessive exposition and several underwritten characters

- SURBHI GARG

Honey Trehan's Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders streaming on ‘Netflix’ is less a sequel and more a self-contained extension of Inspector Jatil Yadav’s world.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui returns to the role, burdened yet understated, a cop beaten into suspicion of the system he serves but determined to do it justice and expose the truth. The case he takes on, a pig’s head hurtled into a farmhouse, followed by the almost-total murder of the powerful Bansal family, owners of a media empire.