''Dial 100'' is a 2021 Indian

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-language

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directed by Rensil D'Silva and produced by Sony Pictures Films India, Siddharth P.Malhotra and Sapna Malhotra. The film stars

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and Sakshi Tanwar in the lead roles. The film premiered on 6 August 2021 on

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. it was loosely inspired from the Danish film '' The Guilty''.

Plot

Nikhil Sood is an overworked and underpaid police officer who one night gets a call on the emergency helpline number 100 from a woman who is threatening to commit suicide. Nikhil asks for her details and says he needs that in order to help her but the woman firstly hesitates and then refuses saying she is going to die soon anyway. Nikhil's wife Prerna phones to alert him that she thinks their son Dhruv could be back to his old habits of being a drug peddler. She continues to tell him that Dhruv leaves home late at night same as when he leaves for his late night shift. Nikhil rings his son and somehow makes him understand and return home quickly. But before that the mysterious women who called Nikhil threatening suicide reaches his house and holds Prerna captive. The woman forces Prerna to sit in her car and calls Nikhil after having a second conversation he realizes that she is Seema Palav whose son died in hit a run case and a rich spoilt brat Yash Mehra's car was the one that hit him. The case got shut down due to pressure from the city's big wigs and the woman thinks Dhruv also had a hand in it. Seema's motive is only revenge by killing Yash, hence the reason she has kidnapped Prerna. She wants Dhruv to get Yash to her. Whether she succeeds forms the rest of the story.

Cast

as Senior Inspector Nikhil Sood *

as Seema Paalav * Sakshi Tanwar as Prerna Sood, Nikhil's wife *

Nandu Madhav Nandu Madhav is an Indian actor known for his works in Marathi cinema and theatre. He is known for the his titular role in Paresh Mokashi's ''Harishchandrachi Factory'' which won the Best Feature Film in Marathi award in the 56th National Fi ...

as Chandrakant Paalav aka Chandu, Seema's husband * Abhijeet Chavan as Inspector Gharat *

Urmila Mahanta Urmila Mahanta is an Indian actress. A student of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Mahanta appeared in various plays, short films and television series, before making her feature film debut in the critically acclaimed 2012 Ta ...

as Gayatri * Vikram Bham as Najeeb * Madhur Arora as Suresh Nayak * Deepanshu Titoriya as Avi * Girish Dixit as Ashish Deshmukh * Virandra Giri as Sangha * Svar Kamble as Dhruv Sood, Nikhil's son *

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as Gautam Mehra * Nilesh Mamgain as Gulam Ahmed * Aman Gandotra as Yash Mehra, Gautam's son

Production

The

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commenced on 1 December 2020 in

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Reception

Rahul Desai of Film Companion wrote, "Even though Dial 100 gets its nihilistic messaging on point, the gimmicky execution ensures the film is about as surprising as a traffic jam in Andheri East."

References

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