Merry Christmas(2024)
A Christmas Eve encounter between two enigmatic strangers sparks a poignant connection - but a dark turn of events threatens to expose their murky past.
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- Netflix
- Theatrical Release
- 12 January 2024
- Director
- Sriram Raghavan
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- Rating
- 7.0/10
Storyline
Two strangers meet on Christmas Eve and feel a strong bond. However, a sudden, dark event puts them in danger and risks revealing the dangerous secrets they are both hiding.
“A dark Christmas secret binds two strangers.”
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Frequent partnerships reunited for Merry Christmas
Cast reunions in this film: Katrina Kaif & Pritam Chakraborty (10 films together), Vijay Sethupathi & Gayathrie Shankar (7 films together), Vinay Pathak & Sriram Raghavan (3 films together), Vijay Sethupathi & Rajesh (2 films together), Vijay Sethupathi & Shanmugarajan (2 films together), and Gayathrie Shankar & Radhika Apte (2 films together).
Trivia
- The film is a Hindi remake of the 2019 French film 'Le Doudou' but was adapted into a noir thriller set in Mumbai.
- Director Sriram Raghavan shot the entire film in a single schedule over 45 days to maintain a consistent mood.
- Katrina Kaif learned to play the piano for a key scene, practicing for weeks to perform it herself on camera.
- The movie's soundtrack features a rare Hindi cover of the classic Christmas song 'The Christmas Waltz'.
- Many of the nighttime scenes were filmed on real Mumbai streets during actual Christmas Eve celebrations.
- The script was written with the ending kept secret from most of the crew to prevent leaks about the twist.
- This is the first collaboration between actors Vijay Sethupathi and Katrina Kaif, requiring language coaches on set.