Bayaan

Bayaan (2025)

बयान

A larger-than-life corrupt godman. A rookie detective. An impossible case.

When a letter accuses a revered cult leader of abuse, rookie detective Roohi Kartar is sent to a small Indian town to investigate. Confronted by a wall of silence and blind devotion, she must uncover the truth before it's too late.

Date of release
2025-09-05
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Drama, Crime, Thriller
Director
Bikas Ranjan Mishra

Casting

Interesting facts

Bayaan is a 2025 Hindi police procedural, drama film written and directed by Bikas Ranjan Mishra. Starring Huma Qureshi, the film centers on Roohi, a female detective investigating her first case of a prominent cult leader, facing anonymous accusations of sexual abuse, confronts institutional power and reluctant witnesses.

Production

The film was produced by Shiladitya Bora of Platoon One Films and co-produced by Madhu Sharma of Summit Studios and Switzerland-based Sadik Keshwani of Guidant Films. The cinematography of the film was handled by Udit Khurana with editing by A. Sreekar Prasad and music composed by Ajay Jayanthi.

The film received backing from the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund and was developed through Film Independent's Global Media Makers LA Residency. During the program, Mishra worked on the screenplay under the mentorship of Craig Mazin, an American writer, director, and producer and, consulted with Jeff Stockwell, a writer; and Ruth Atkinson a Los Angeles-based, script consultant and story editor.

Principal photography began in Rajasthan in July 2024, and filming was wrapped up on 12 September 2024.

On 22 September 2024, the in-production film was presented at the Asian Project Market (APM), a pre-market, which is held in Busan, South Korea, in conjunction with the Busan International Film Festival.

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