The Waiting Room | |
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Directed by | Maneej Premnath |
Written by | Maneej Premnath |
Produced by | Sunil Doshi |
Starring | Raj Singh Chaudhary Radhika Apte Sandeep Kulkarni Prateeksha Lonkar Indrajith Sukumaran Sona Nair Gopal Singh |
Cinematography | Dilshad. V. A. |
Edited by | Baiju Kurup |
Music by | Luvv |
Distributed by | PVR Cinemas |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
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]
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]
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