Bollywood Real-Life Serial Killers Films: Bollywood has historically drawn its inspiration from events that actually happened, and none has excited, horrified, and riveted the audience more than the golden thread of real-life serial killers. These films delve deep into the nooks and crannies of the human mind, even while mirroring the failures and fears of society with its moral dilemmas. So here is an overview of some of the most mesmerizing Hindi films based on the haunting true-crime cases of India.
Drawn from the unsolved Stoneman murders that haunted the streets of Mumbai in the 1980s, this investigative thriller follows a journalist who probes a number of murders focused on the pavement dwellers. With its gritty tone and suspenseful writing, it is something one would want to watch to feed their appetite for crime films.
Anurag Kashyap has his mind-wide open through his psychological masterpiece, depicting the bland chilling crimes committed by a role model in Mumbai in the 1960s-Raman Raghav. Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vicky Kaushal’s performance puts rather an unflinching portrait of madness and morality.
Modeled on the Nithari killings, Sector 36 would usher an audience into a dark procedural investigation gone awry. As the cop probes further into the missing person’s case, he fortunately unveils a systematic core of corruption and horror lurking within.
It is about two sisters whose fate is molded by their criminal mother — inspired by Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde’s real case — through interviews and flashbacks. It is a disturbing yet powerful psychological study of nurture and evil.
Based partially on the famous Nithari killings, Murder 2 featured Emraan Hashmi as a retired cop now investigating the mysterious disappearance of sex workers. Beneath its commercial thriller format lies a dark reflection of the morbid urban decay as well as human depravity.
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With realism and cinema, these films hit the audiences with uncomfortable truths: they ask societies that breed such criminals to introspect along with the murderer.