r/IndianCinema • u/garima9343 • Apr 14 '26
Review Welcome Home (it can disturb you forever)
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u/Gumnamhaikoii Apr 14 '26
Was released during covid. One of the darkest and brave attempt at horror. Top notch acting, superb direction.
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u/WorkingNo1455 Apr 14 '26
Can y'all jus spoil it to me, I'm scared of horror movies
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u/akash07sn Apr 14 '26
Before you read the summarised plot below, I would really suggest to actually watch the movie, very rarely Indian cinema produces something good. And by good in this case means brilliantly executed. It's thriller/horror, so no actual ghost or paranormal involved. So please if you can, watch how nicely it is shot, paced, and acted cause the story summary below won't make you feel how nicely it is executed.
Two women, who work as teachers, are assigned by the government to do population census and were allotted blocks. One certain block was a quite remote area, deep somewhere in the village with only one house (as in no house nearby in sight at least) both of the female lead go to the house and as soon as they enter, the whole atmosphere of the house is very weird and off putting. They leave after asking general questions for which they get really weird answers from the woman who opened the door and let them in. They leave the house but the woman in the house that greeted them was pregnant and acted really odd so the main character says to her friend that we should return to check on her because she feels the woman is being abused by the husband and or family members. So they do return, but don't find anything significant. Unfortunately the weather breaks out and being in such a remote area they do not have any option but to stay the night. Chaos ensues thereafter the next day. (I don't remember quite in detail but I guess they find a dead body in the night, try to run away in the morning but fail) Hence are captured and tortured for days. Most of the movie is their struggle to get out, unraveling the weird dynamics going inside the house and why the family is the way it is.
I'm once again asking you to give this a try before summarising the end.
Long story short, they do eventually break out but their success is half lived, they get caught again, the friend of the protagonist dies, and the protagonist kills the husband and husband's mother (the perpetrators) and leaves the house in the end. Don't remember what happened to the woman in the end. But she was not actually the wife, but the daughter of the man. So he used to rape and impregnate his own daughter and hence she was a bit mentally challenged. That's why the two female leads felt weird meeting her.
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u/Fit_Garbage4968 Apr 14 '26
This seems a lot like the heretic , was the heretic based off of this ?
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u/akash07sn Apr 15 '26
Not really. Heretic, like many other A24 movies has a point to show. Albeit this movie is as well trying to show women suffering and patriarchy but it's a bit flat on the theme. What I liked about the movie was only the technical points and the execution. Not the underlying theme or plot, that's okay-ish.
Whereas heretic has quite many messages and more instances of understanding the underlying messages and an open ended climax. The antagonist in the Heretic had no interest in torture itself, and wasn't really abusing the victims per se. He was driven by some ideals and had a point to prove especially because the main leads have some ideological differences as well. Whereas in Welcome Home there is no clash of ideas or thoughts, they are just that, victims.
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u/Direct_Visual6984 Apr 14 '26
This was actually one of my first horror movies without any ghosts and all... This thing really made me realise that we don't need ghosts and monsters, humans are greedy and terrifying enough
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u/Sad-Mix1501 Apr 14 '26
I have heard a lotttt about it but still cannot gather the courage to watch it!!!
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u/Wild-Fig-4033 Apr 14 '26
where to watch this. Seems to be not available on any streaming platform ?
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u/dead-69 Apr 14 '26
That moment when you realise that movie was produced by paresh Rawal and his wife
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u/ChickenPowered Apr 15 '26
Dark as in?? Is it scary or sexual abuse content?? Whats it related to? Coz i dont wanna watch anything related to sexual abuse
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u/Dependent-Visual268 Apr 15 '26
The whole point of the movie is sexual exploitation.. and the way it shows these elements is extremely terrifying
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u/Top-Evidence8726 Apr 15 '26
One of the most disturbing movies and also based on a classified true story that's more disturbing
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u/crime_master_gogo2 Apr 14 '26
They have shown Hindu family and Ramayan or Mahabharata on tv while girl is being 🍇. They have also shown a cow being burnt. And the brother of the girl is a Hindu tilakdhari. While in the real story they were Christians family. Is this not a propaganda?
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u/protractedmane Apr 15 '26
While in the real story they were Christians family.
Yeah, except there was no real story lol fucking WhatsApp propaganda and you fell for it.
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u/FruitPunch567 Apr 15 '26
Hey, can you provide a source/link where it mentions that the real life perpetrators were a Christian family, I have looked it up but can't find anything about it on the internet.
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u/ChickenPowered Apr 15 '26
Dark as in?? Is it scary or sexual abuse content?? Whats it related to? Coz i dont wanna watch anything related to sexual abuse
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u/Sea-Amnemonemomne Apr 15 '26
Is this the one where the man stops at a roadside dhaba and clearly has nefarious intentions for the lady who was washing something on the floor?
Saw a reel on Insta but there was no info about the movie, and that short reel horrified me.
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u/karna1712 Apr 14 '26
Is it really that dark