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Cast: Purab Kohli, Arjan Bajwa, Mrinalini Sharma, Amruta Patki
Genre: Thriller
Direction: Shawn Arranha
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes

Story: Six friends have a disastrous Christmas eve party which ends in tragedy for most of them. Twelve years later, they are forced to meet in a deserted mall, where an invisible assassin tries to settle old scores. Who's tainted and who's innocent? Take your pick....

Movie Review: After an attempt to revisit Grudge in desi cinema, here's one more Hollywood style slasher film that makes its debut on the native screen. Reminiscent of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series, Hide and Seek follows a similar format of chasing a bunch of friends through time, in order to settle a few forgotten scores from the sordid past.

Purab Kohli loves Mrinalini Sharma and wants to gift her a miniature Taj Mahal at a party. But Amruta Patki wants the Taj for herself because she loves the simple boy, while spurning the overtures of Arjan Bajwa, the politician's tapori son. Humiliated by hot-headed Amruta, Arjan is determined to avenge himself with the help of his gutless buddy, Ayaz Khan. And seeing the brewing cauldron at home, Purab's elder brother, Sameer Kochhar, decides it's time to grind his own axe. Envious of his younger sibling's popularity, he tries to twist the events in order to get him out of his way....

Confused? Don't be. The tangled web of relationships does unwind gradually to reveal undercurrents that lead towards death and denouement. And as the odd assortment of friends try to resolve their old differences, Santa Claus comes gunning for them from the dark shadows of the deserted mall. One by one, the group begins to crumble and the mystery peels, layer after layer.

There's enough pizzazz to keep the adrenalin pumping here.