A contract hitman wakes from years of unconsciousness with no memory of the work that once defined him. Bob Biswas, a 2021 Hindi-language crime thriller directed by Diya Annapurna Ghosh, follows what happens when the old life comes looking for him.
What is Bob Biswas about?
Bob Biswas is an unassuming, soft-spoken man who opens his eyes in a hospital bed after a long coma. His family is waiting, but the person they describe to him feels like a stranger. As he tries to rebuild an ordinary routine, fragments return in flashes: faces, addresses, a quiet phrase spoken before a trigger is pulled. The trade he once practised for money begins to reassert itself, and the people who paid him have not forgotten his skills. Caught between the harmless figure his family believes in and the instrument others want him to become, Bob must decide whether a man can be held to a past he cannot remember.
About the cast
Abhishek Bachchan leads the film as the amnesiac hitman, a role that relies on stillness and mild manners rather than physical bravado. Chitrangda Singh plays opposite him, and the supporting cast includes Paran Banerjee, Samara Tijori, Vishwanath Chatterjee, Bhanu Uday, Ronith Arora and Tina Desai.
Context & significance
Indian crime thrillers of the early 2020s increasingly moved away from spectacle toward smaller, morally knotted stories, and Bob Biswas belongs to that shift. The film runs a generous 131 minutes, using the length to let its central figure drift between domestic scenes and the colder world of contract work. The genre labels Crime, Drama and Thriller all apply, but the drama element does most of the heavy lifting: the tension comes from watching an ordinary-seeming man discover what he is capable of, and from the question of whether memory loss can serve as a moral clean slate.
Watching Bob Biswas on Ktime
Bob Biswas streams on K-Time for members who sign in to their account. The film is available with a Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, so you can choose between hearing the dialogue in Farsi or following the original Hindi with on-screen text. The whole K-Time experience, from browsing to playback controls, is built for Persian-speaking viewers.