Director: Aditya Sarpotdar
A village homecoming turns into a nightmare in Munjya, a 2024 Indian horror-comedy from director Aditya Sarpotdar that mixes folklore dread with slapstick timing.
What is Munjya about?
When a young man returns to his family's ancestral village to attend to old obligations, he stumbles onto a secret his relatives have buried for a generation: a restless spirit known as Munjya, bound to the family line and determined to claim a bride before it can move on. As strange rituals and half-told warnings pile up, he realizes the only way to protect the woman he loves is to confront a threat that predates him. The film leans into regional myth rather than jump-scare shortcuts, building its scares around ceremony, superstition, and the discomfort of family secrets resurfacing at the worst possible moment. Comic relief arrives through bumbling relatives and a hero who is spectacularly unprepared for what he's facing, keeping the tone light even as the stakes rise.
Cast & crew
Abhay Verma anchors the film as the reluctant protagonist dragged into his family's unfinished business, with Sharvari Wagh playing the love interest he's trying to shield. Mona Singh and Suhas Joshi round out an ensemble of relatives whose comic bickering does a lot of the film's tonal heavy lifting, while Sathyaraj brings gravity to the older generation's guilt over what they left buried.
Context & significance
Munjya draws on Maharashtrian folklore about vengeful spirits tied to unfinished rites of passage, a regional variant of horror storytelling that's less familiar to international audiences than more widely exported Indian genre cinema. Sarpotdar, working in a shared cinematic universe with other Indian horror-comedies, uses the setup to poke at generational tension between old village customs and a modern protagonist who'd rather not deal with any of it.
Where & how to watch
Munjya is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, presented in Farsi-subtitled form for viewers who prefer to follow the original Hindi audio with local-language text. The film's page itself is free to browse without signing in, and the Farsi-first interface makes it easy to queue up alongside other titles for later.