Hansal Mehta movie list

Hansal Mehta is a film director best known for Shahid (2013), Citylights (2014), Aligarh (2016), Omertà (2018) and Scam 1992 (2020). He is known for films that depict social and political realities in deeply polarised and troubled times. His films are remarkable for their understanding of characters and their worlds, while telling important stories. His films Shahid (2013) and Omertà(2018) premiered as official selections at different editions of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Aligarh (2016) a moving tale about a professor suspended by university for being gay premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2015. His films have traveled to festivals around the world and have been extensively written about and discussed in both international and local forums. He won the National Award for Best Direction in 2014 for his film Shahid.

The Buckingham Murders

The Buckingham Murders

8.4India2024DramaThrillerCrime

A grieving cop who loses her child to murder and moves to another town where she's tasked with investigating the disappearance of a missing child. Exploring themes of trauma, grief, the immigrant experience, and our need for closure.

Scoop

7.5India2023DramaCrimeDocumentary

The shocking murder of a journalist thrusts a leading crime reporter into a nexus of police, media and the Mumbai underworld as she fights for justice.

Faraaz

5India2023ActionThriller

A terrifying hostage crisis unfolds over one fateful night in 2016 when heavily armed militants attack a popular cafe in Dhaka. Based on true events.

Chhalaang

6.8India2020ActionComedyDrama

Chhalaang is a hilarious yet inspiring journey by Montu.

Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story

Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story

8.8India2020DramaThrillerCrimeDocumentary

Set in 1980's & 90's Bombay, Scam 1992 follows the life of Harshad Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights & his catastrophic downfall. Being directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta, the series is based on journalist Debashis Basu & Sucheta Dalal's book "The Scam".

Cargo

6India2020DramaScience fiction

Aboard a spaceship where souls of the deceased are readied for reincarnation, a lone crew member’s rigid existence is disrupted by a spry new assistant.

Omerta

7.1India2018ActionDramaCrimeDocumentary

A dramatization of the complex and dangerous life of Omar Sheikh. A convicted terrorist who many believe had financial connections to 9/11, Sheikh is widely known as the man responsible forthe 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Aligarh

8.9India2016DramaDocumentary

Set in the city of Uttar Pradesh and based on true events, the plot revolves around Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras who taught Marathi at Aligarh Muslim University. He was sacked from his position of Reader and Chair of Modern Indian Languages, on charges of homosexuality. A sting operation was conducted by a TV channel which showed him in an embrace with a rickshaw puller, at his house inside the campus.

Shahid

8.2India2013DramaDocumentary

The account of Human Rights lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice.