About Khauf
Madhu moves into a hostel in Delhi to start afresh, but her room hides a sinister presence that begins to get stronger each day, alarming the other women on her floor. They know what the room hides and desperately want her gone before it is too late for them all.
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Worth Watching | Reviews Counted: 3
✓ Positive: 3
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✗ Negative: 0
IMDb: 6.7/10
Reviews From All Critics
Rating: 3.5/5 · Times of India ·
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Madhu (Monika Panwar), a young woman from Gwalior, moves into a women’s hostel in Delhi, yearning for a fresh start. But when she’s assigned a room with a violent past, her new life quickly begins to unravel — haunted by memories she’s tried to forget and forces she can’t explain.
Rating: 3.5/5 · Hindustan Times ·
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Khauf falters in places, giving the victim the agency she needs only through trauma, a trope that is perhaps as problematic as anything else horror genre has done to women. The resolution – in the climax – is also not at par with the rest of the show. It undoes some of the narrative-building done in the build up, and renders the protagonist rather inconsistent.
Rating: 4.0/5 · Cineblues ·
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‘Khauf’ is certainly not an easy watch – Blood, brutalities and BC/MC gaalis dictate its languid narrative (yes, it needed a lot more precision in the editing scissors). Singh draws a contrast in the social anatomy of the capital with Shilpa Shukla playing an urban psychiatrist and spiritual healer and Gagan Arora playing Nakul, an upper-class boy with a hideous past.
Production Details & Cast
Creators / Directors: Smita Singh
Starring Cast: Monika Panwar, Rajat Kapoor, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Shilpa Shukla
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