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Acting
Vikrant Massey builds Manoj brick by brick—no heroics, just hunger.
Direction
Chopra strips away Bollywood gloss; Mukherjee Nagar feels lived-in, sweaty, real.
Writing
That classroom speech about 'restart' hits like a gut punch you didn't ask for.

Director
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
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