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Monica, O My Darling

मोनिका, ओ माय डार्लिंग · 2022

A robotics engineer on the rise is blackmailed into a murder plan that immediately stops going to plan.

Director
Vasan Bala
Year
2022
Genre
Neo-noir · Comedy
Cast
Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, Sikandar Kher
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Why it's in the canon

Achint's score, a full Vijay Anand homage, and the best-plotted Indian comedy-noir in years.

A robotics engineer on the rise is blackmailed into a murder plan that immediately stops going to plan.

Monica, O My Darling sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.

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