Maa Behen(2026)

Storyline

A mother calls her estranged daughters in the middle of the night with shocking news — there's a dead body in her kitchen. The sisters must suddenly face this terrifying and bizarre situation together, which forces them to confront their broken relationships and all the distance between them. Their desperate struggle to deal with this dark mystery becomes a strange and darkly funny mix of humor and mounting tension that tests whether they can find their way back to each other.

“One body. Three daughters. Midnight chaos.”

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Cast & Crew

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Madhuri DixitRekha

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Triptii DimriJaya

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Ravi KishanGupta Ji

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Shardul BhardwajActor

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Dharna DurgaSushma

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Jatin SarnaActor

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Geetanjali KulkarniActor

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Arunoday SinghActor

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Anuj DhawanCrew

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Akashdeep SenguptaMusic

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Suresh TriveniDirector

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Vikram MalhotraCrew

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Pooja TolaniCrew

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Trivia

• Suresh Triveni has built a reputation for placing women at the centre of moral chaos — his earlier films Tumhari Sulu (2017) and Jalsa (2022) both feature ordinary women forced into extraordinary ethical corners, making Maa Behen a natural evolution of his signature style.
• The film's title — combining 'maa' (mother) and 'behen' (sister) — signals from the outset that its tension lives entirely within female relationships, a thematic territory Triveni has returned to across his career.
• A dead body discovered in a domestic space is a classic setup in stage farce, and Maa Behen leans into that theatrical DNA, with the confined kitchen setting reportedly driving much of the film's escalating tension.
• Dark comedy-thrillers are a rare genre combination in mainstream Hindi cinema, where comedies and crime films typically stay separate — Maa Behen positions itself in a small but growing space that includes films like Andhadhun and Khichdi.
• The midnight phone call as a narrative trigger is a device that instantly raises stakes without any setup — it forces characters (and the audience) to arrive mid-crisis, a structure more common in Hollywood black comedies than Bollywood.
• Estranged siblings reunited by a parent's crisis is a well-worn premise globally, but setting that reunion around a crime rather than a death or illness gives Maa Behen a sharper, more uncomfortable edge.
• Triveni is known for drawing layered, lived-in performances from his lead actresses — both Vidya Balan in his earlier work and the leads here are reportedly given space to improvise within scenes, which suits the genre's need for comic timing that feels spontaneous rather than staged.