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Raat Akeli Hai (2020)

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Raat Akeli Hai. (2020) Director : Honey Trehan. The patriarch of a rich Uttar Pradesh family, Raghuveer Singh is found murdered in his bedroom on the night of his second marriage. In comes Inspector Jatil Yadav, a no nonsense cop, to investigate what turns out to be a layered whodunit. It becomes clear in the very beginning that every member of the family is a suspect. Although all fingers point towards Singh's mistress and now second wife, Radha, played by Radhika Apte, who the family loathes, Jatil is in no hurry to declare her the killer. Even in the face of pressure from political leaders and seniors from the department, Jatil says with gusto, I'll dig out the truth from anywhere. A lot of reviews seem to be comparing Raat Akeli Hai with Rian Johnson's Knives Out. The only similarity between these two movies is that they're both closed room mysteries. In Knives Out, detective Benoit Blanc suspects the entire family and Jatil does the same here. As the fi

#ALIVE

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#Alive (2020) Director : Cho Il-hyung A gamer finds himself alone in his apartment when a zombie apocalypse hits the country. He barely manages to escape from an infected person who enters his apartment, and helplessly watches people being bitten by a horde of zombies. He soon runs out of food, water, phone and internet connection, and at one point decides to take his own life. But he is saved by another survivor from the adjacent complex who shines a laser pointer at him. Finding the other survivor lends our gamer a renewed vigour and the two share food and eventually a walkie-talkie to talk. After they barely escape another mad horde of zombies, they realise they'd die if they stayed at their apartments any longer and decide to make a run for the 8th floor. Of course things go bad and zombies find them but they're saved in the nick of time by a stranger. Things start to look good only for the stranger to drug them so that his zombie wife can feed on them. They bar