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Cast

Arjan Bajwa ... Jaideep Mahajan

Purab Kohli ... Om Jaiswal

Sameer Kochhar ... Abhimanyu Jaiswal

Ayaz Khan ... Imran Baig

Prasad Barve ... Young Imran

Mohit Dutta ... Young Jaideep

Pavail Gulati ... YOUNG Abhimanyu

Amruta Patki ... Gunita Sodhi

Mrinalini Sharma ... Jyotika Jhalani

Nutan Shinde ... Young Jyotika

Shweta Varma ... Young Gunita


Director ... Shawn Aranha

Writers ... Apoorva Lakhia

Release Date ... 12 March 2010 (India)

Genre ... Action | Thriller

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So whodunit? Put a bunch of assorted men and women into a shopping mall not to shop, but to get bumped off. And voila, the whodunit takes the characters to shop until they drop, one by one.

There’s a Santa Claus with a hatchet in hand running around the deathly-still, sparkling clean but eerie mall. The polished surfaces of the mall glisten with a glorious promise of gore. This, we’ve got to see.

Luckily, the unravelling of the mystery of the murderous mall is not a disappointment. “Hide & Seek” packs in a punch.

Srikant Saroj’s camera stalks the corridors with a restless energy. The whole project seems to have been conceived and designed so that an emptied-out shopping mall could be used as a venue for some hardcore scares.

Once the six friends-turned-enemies are clamped shut in the mall, the plot thickens in rapid fire motions. The characters, including a north Indian-hating Marathi politician, played rather loudly by Arjan Bajwa, and a nerd-turned-filmstar played by Ayaz Khan, create a stifling circle of tension, some of it palpable, others pale.

On the whole, the mayhem-in-the-mall holds together.