A television left tuned to static becomes a bridge between two decades in Dobaaraa, a genre-bending thriller from Anurag Kashyap.
What is Dobaaraa about?
Twenty-five years after a boy witnesses a fatal accident during a violent thunderstorm, a woman living through an eerily similar storm in the present finds she can reach him through an old television set. What begins as an inexplicable connection turns into a race against time, as she tries to change the outcome of a night she was never part of. Taapsee Pannu leads as the woman drawn into this cross-time mystery, with Pavail Gulati, Saswata Chatterjee and Rahul Bhat filling out a story that treats memory and grief as puzzles to be solved rather than simply endured. The film moves between two timelines without ever losing its footing, building tension less through jump scares than through the slow unraveling of what actually happened that night.
About the cast
Taapsee Pannu anchors the film opposite Pavail Gulati, with Saswata Chatterjee, Rahul Bhat, Nassar, Vidushi Mehra and Himanshi Choudhry in supporting roles. Director Anurag Kashyap adapts the story for an Indian setting while keeping its central hook - two people separated by a quarter-century, connected only by a broken television - front and center.
Context & significance
Dobaaraa released in 2022 as part of a run of Hindi-language genre films willing to mix fantasy logic with grounded family drama. Its blend of drama, fantasy, mystery and thriller elements sets it apart from more straightforward genre thrillers, closer in spirit to time-crossing mysteries than to conventional crime cinema, and it gives South Asian genre filmmaking a distinct entry in K-Time's catalogue.
Watching Dobaaraa on Ktime
Dobaaraa is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making the film's dialogue-heavy mystery easy to follow for Farsi-speaking viewers. Anyone can read this page; watching only requires logging into a K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-first design means Persian-speaking audiences get a viewing experience built around their language.