The Waiting Room (2010 film)

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The Waiting Room
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Directed by Maneej Premnath
Written byManeej Premnath
Produced bySunil Doshi
Starring Raj Singh Chaudhary
Radhika Apte
Sandeep Kulkarni
Prateeksha Lonkar
Indrajith Sukumaran
Sona Nair
Gopal Singh
Cinematography Dilshad. V. A.
Edited byBaiju Kurup
Music by Luvv
Distributed by PVR Cinemas
Release date
  • 15 January 2010 (2010-01-15)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

The Waiting Room is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Maneej Premnath [1] [2] and produced by Sunil Doshi, starring Raj Singh Chaudhary, Radhika Apte, Sandeep Kulkarni, Prateeksha Lonkar, and Indrajith Sukumaran. [3] [4]

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Plot

The story of The Waiting Room takes place in Thenmala, a remote South Indian railway station, where four passengers are left stranded on a rainy night. Reports of a serial killer in the area, lead to a group of distrusting passengers to make assessments of each other with suspicions that one them might be a serial killer, creating fear among them. The dreaded night for the passengers ends with a short investigation leading to the identification of the killer forms the crux of the film. [5] [6] [7]

Cast

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