House Arrest (2019 film)

House Arrest is a 2019 Indian comedy film directed by Samit Basu and Shashanka Ghosh and written by Samit Basu.[1][2][3] It released on 15 November 2019 through Netflix.[4]

House Arrest
A smiling man on a massage table, a woman and a man sitting on the couch, and another woman standing beside them, holding a finger over her mouth
Film poster
Directed by
Written bySamit Basu
Starring
Production
company
India Stories
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • 15 November 2019 (2019-11-15)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Plot

In this comedy of errors, a betrayed man on voluntary self-confinement faces the simultaneous arrival of a peculiar package, and a curious journalist.

After being betrayed by his wife, Karan quits his regular job and locks himself in. He only receives daily groceries via the neighbourhood caretaker. Even stepping out induces extreme anxiety within him.

One evening, a neighbour, Pinky, drops off a packaged cabinet at his place and asks him to take care of it. He later discovers it's something deadly. At the same time, a young journalist who has heard of his isolation comes to interview him. They hit it off while he constantly tries to keep her from seeing the package.

Trouble ensues when the neighbour, the package, the journalist, everything comes crashing down all at once.

Cast
  • Ali Fazal as Karan, a man in a self-imposed house arrest
  • Shriya Pilgaonkar as Saira, the journalist
  • Jim Sarbh as Jamshed Daneja (JD), Karan's best friend
  • Barkha Singh as Pinky, Karan's friend who gives him a package for safekeeping
  • Sunil Kumar as Rambo, Pinky's bodyguard

References
  1. "House Arrest review: Ali Fazal tries his best but shallow writing fails this Netflix film". Hindustan Times. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. Ramnath, Nandini (16 November 2019). "In Netflix film 'House Arrest', a man refuses to leave his apartment – and it's hard to care". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. "NETFLIX PARTNERS WITH INDIA'S FINEST STORYTELLERS ON 10 NEW ORIGINAL FILMS". Netflix Media Center. 14 April 2019. Archived from the original on 15 April 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  4. "House Arrest: Netflix to premiere Ali Fazal, Shriya Pilgaonkar's upcoming comedy on 15 November". Firstpost. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2020.


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