Director: Sharath Singam
Cast: Satya Chalasani Santhoshi Damidi Puli Dharani
N.E.S.T. is a 2025 American thriller film directed by Sharath Singam, running 116 minutes. It follows two detectives racing against time to decode a cryptic trail of clues and save a captive held by a perpetrator whose origins reach back across decades of hidden history.
What is N E S T about?
When a pair of seasoned detectives stumble upon a chain of fragmented evidence, they realize the case before them is unlike anything in their careers. Each lead seems to point further into the past, toward a figure who should no longer exist. As the investigators piece together the puzzle, the pressure mounts — the victim's window of survival narrows with every hour they spend chasing shadows. The film unfolds as a methodical cat-and-mouse chase between reason and obsession, where every breakthrough carries a new layer of danger. The detectives must decide how far they are willing to go to confront a threat that history had seemingly buried.
Cast & crew
Director Sharath Singam guides this thriller with a tight procedural hand. The film stars Satya Chalasani in a lead detective role, with Santhoshi Damidi and Puli Dharani rounding out the central ensemble. The three performances anchor the film's tension, trading exposition and confrontation in equal measure as the investigation tightens around its elusive subject.
Context & significance
American-made thriller films with South Asian creative teams have steadily grown in the diaspora viewing landscape, and N.E.S.T. arrives as a confident entry in that space. For Persian-speaking viewers abroad who enjoy procedural crime dramas — a genre that has always found a devoted audience among Iranians — this film delivers a focused, dialogue-driven puzzle. The thriller format travels well across cultural boundaries: the stakes of a kidnapping investigation, the pressure of a ticking clock, and the weight of institutional failure speak universally. Best of all, N.E.S.T. is available with a full Persian dub, so viewers can follow every interrogation, every coded clue, and every tense confrontation entirely in Farsi.
Where & how to watch
N.E.S.T. is available on K-Time with a full Persian dub. Watch it through your browser, on your TV دستگاه, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, no extra download. Start streaming anytime and cancel anytime.