Thriller
short

The Call

Rabindra Choudhary
Kolkata
7 mins
Hindi, English
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Directed by

Rabindra Choudhary

"A late-night call pulls a man into a spiral of questions — and the deeper he digs, the less real everything feels."

Synopsis

After losing his job and falling into hopelessness, a man prepares to take his own life — until he receives a mysterious phone call. The voice offers him a job with no details, just instructions: clean up the dead body now lying in his house. Shaken but intrigued by the promised reward, he complies. The next day, he installs cameras to uncover who’s behind this — but the footage vanishes. Even after disconnecting the phone line, the voice returns. He believes it’s over — until he sees news footage of a murder inside his room, featuring him. But he doesn’t remember doing it. Or does he? The final call reveals the chilling truth: the killer was him all along — a fractured version born from childhood obsessions with psychological thrillers and triggered by financial ruin. As he stares into the camera, ₹1 crore lands in his account. The screen cuts to black.

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Description

The Call delves into identity, mental instability, and moral decay — showing how desperation and trauma can awaken a darker self buried deep within the human mind.

Theme & Message

The Call explores the fragile boundary between reality and delusion, and how unresolved trauma and suppressed desires can manifest into dangerous alternate identities. It reflects on how desperation can twist morality, and questions whether evil is born from choice — or survival. At its heart, the film is a psychological descent into the human mind, revealing that the most terrifying enemy can be the version of ourselves we no longer recognize.

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short