''The Waiting Room'' is a 2010 Indian
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
-language
thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...
directed by
Maneej Premnath
Maneej Premnath was a film director concentrating on Bollywood films.
Career
Premnath started his career as an assistant director and worked for many TV series like '' Ssshhhh...Koi Hai''. His short film '' Who Am I ?'' was India's official e ...
and produced by Sunil Doshi, starring
Raj Singh Chaudhary
Raj Mangal Singh Chaudhary is an Indian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Early life and career
Chaudhary was born in Darjeeling, India. After pursuing a career in modelling and earning his degree in software engineering from BMS College ...
,
Radhika Apte
Radhika Apte (born 7 September 1985) is an Indian actress. She works predominantly in Hindi films, and has appeared in a few Tamil language, Tamil, Marathi language, Marathi, Telugu language, Telugu, Bengali language, Bengali, and English-langua ...
,
Sandeep Kulkarni
Sandeep Kulkarni (born 16 November) is an Indian actor and painter. He has worked in Marathi films as well as theatre.
Early life and background
Born in Pune, Sandeep was raised in a Maharashtrian middle-class family by father Shrikant Kulkar ...
,
Prateeksha Lonkar
Prateeksha Lonkar is an Indian actress who mostly appeared in Hindi and Marathi films and television series. She is best known for playing the lead title role in the Marathi TV serial ''Damini'', that aired on DD Sahyadri.
Early life
Lonkar's ...
, and
Indrajith Sukumaran
Indrajith Sukumaran (born 17 December 1978) is an Indian actor and singer. He predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. Indrajith was born to the actors Sukumaran and Mallika Sukumaran and is the elder brother of Prithviraj Sukumaran.
Indrajit ...
.
Plot
The story of ''The Waiting Room'' takes place in
Thenmala
Thenmala is a tourist destination in the eastern side of Kollam district in Kerala, India that is home to the first eco-tourism centre in India. The word 'Thenmala' means "'Honey hills" in Malayalam language. The town is 66 km away from Ko ...
, a remote South Indian railway station, where four passengers are left stranded on a rainy night. Reports of a serial killer in the area, lead to a group of distrusting passengers to make assessments of each other with suspicions that one them might be a serial killer, creating fear among them. The dreaded night for the passengers ends with a short investigation leading to the identification of the killer forms the crux of the film.
Cast
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Raj Singh Chaudhary
Raj Mangal Singh Chaudhary is an Indian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Early life and career
Chaudhary was born in Darjeeling, India. After pursuing a career in modelling and earning his degree in software engineering from BMS College ...
as Karan
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Radhika Apte
Radhika Apte (born 7 September 1985) is an Indian actress. She works predominantly in Hindi films, and has appeared in a few Tamil language, Tamil, Marathi language, Marathi, Telugu language, Telugu, Bengali language, Bengali, and English-langua ...
as Neeta
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Sandeep Kulkarni
Sandeep Kulkarni (born 16 November) is an Indian actor and painter. He has worked in Marathi films as well as theatre.
Early life and background
Born in Pune, Sandeep was raised in a Maharashtrian middle-class family by father Shrikant Kulkar ...
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Prateeksha Lonkar
Prateeksha Lonkar is an Indian actress who mostly appeared in Hindi and Marathi films and television series. She is best known for playing the lead title role in the Marathi TV serial ''Damini'', that aired on DD Sahyadri.
Early life
Lonkar's ...
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Indrajith Sukumaran
Indrajith Sukumaran (born 17 December 1978) is an Indian actor and singer. He predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. Indrajith was born to the actors Sukumaran and Mallika Sukumaran and is the elder brother of Prithviraj Sukumaran.
Indrajit ...
as Investigation Officer
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Sona Nair
Sona Nair (born 4 March 1975) is an Indian actress working mainly in Malayalam cinema who is also best known for roles in Soap opera, television soaps.
Personal life
Sona Nair attended Al-Uthuman Higher Secondary School, Kazhakoottam, Trivan ...
as Tody shop lady
*Gopal Singh
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Shelly Kishore
Shelly Kishore is an Indian film and television actress. She is known for her role Shalini in '' Kumkumapoovu'' and in ''Thanga Meenkal'' and Usha in ''Minnal Murali''. She received a Kerala state television award for best actress in 2006.
E ...
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Master Ganapathi as Tea stall boy
References
External links
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2010 films
2010s Hindi-language films
2010 directorial debut films
Indian thriller films
Films shot in Kerala
Films shot in Kollam
Films set in Kerala
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