Netflix Announces Sequel 'Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders' With Nawazuddin Siddiqui Returning as Inspector Jatil Yadav Netflix has announced a sequel to its 2020 crime thriller Raat Akeli Hai, titled Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders. The follow-up sees filmmaker Honey Trehan back in the director’s chair, with Smita Singh once again writing the screenplay. The film is produced by RSVP and MacGuffin Pictures, with Ronnie Screwvala, Trehan, and Abhishek Chaubey attached as producers.
The plot of the movie revolves around a U.S. Marshal, on a snowy Christmas Eve, who seeks refuge from her judgmental family by immersing herself in work. However, her plans take an unexpected turn when she gets snowed in with an unlikely companion – a cheerful and heavily pregnant fugitive. To complicate matters, she finds herself tasked with keeping this soon-to-be mom safe from both labor pains and a merry band of bumbling goons led by a trio of hitmen who couldn’t find a reindeer in the North Pole.
In 1984, a woman with a phantom pregnancy is exiled to a remote Catskills inn where she becomes convinced that she is the target of a mysterious woman in the woods who will stop at nothing to be a mother.
Stephen Seary, a charismatic and successful stage designer, returns to his small hometown in Australia to say goodbye to his dying mother. What was to be a quick trip descends into chaos, drama, and at times downright funny moments as Stephen navigates family responsibilities, a difficult relationship with his father, old friends and past lovers, all while trying to return to Europe for a major opera contract.