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Pooja Meri Jaan

Thriller Crime Romance Hindi


After Pooja rejects Aniket’s romantic advances, his subsequent death by suicide leaves her facing accusations. As lawyer and friend Sana investigates the circumstances surrounding the incident, questions of obsession, consent, responsibility and the truth behind Pooja’s relationship with Aniket begin to emerge.

Cast:Mrunal Thakur, Huma Qureshi, Vikram Singh Chauhan, Vijay Raaz, Sunita Rajwar, Rajesh Jais, Suparna Marwah, Chaitanya Vyas, Nikhil Angrish, Madhu Sachdeva,
Director:Navjot Gulati
Writer:Navjot Gulati, Kanishka Singh Deo, Niren Bhatt
Editor:Sanyukta Kaza
Camera:Jishnu Bhattacharjee
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மொத்தப் படத்தையும் கிட்டத்தட்ட ‘ஒன்வுமன் ஆர்மி’யாகத் தாங்குகிறார் மிருணாள் தாகூர்.

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Srinivasan R | Ananda Vikatan

Thu, October 15 2026

டெல்லியில் குடும்பத்துடன் வசித்துவரும் பூஜாவை (மிருணாள் தாகூர்), அனிகெட் (விக்ரம் சிங் சௌஹான்) ஒருதலைப்பட்சமாகத் துரத்தித் துரத்திக் காதலிக்கிறார். திடீரென அனிகெட் தற்கொலை செய்துகொள்ள அதற்கு பூஜாவே காரணம் எனக் குற்றம் சாட்டப்படுகிறது. இந்த வழக்கில் பூஜாவுக்கு ஆதரவாகக் களமிறங்குகிறார் வக்கீலான சனா மெஹ்ஃபூஸ் (ஹூமா குரேஷி). அனிகெட்டின் மரணத்துக்கு யார் காரணம் என்பதே இந்த ஜி5 இந்தி சினிமா. மொத்தப் படத்தையும் கிட்டத்தட்ட ‘ஒன்வுமன் ஆர்மி’யாகத் தாங்குகிறார் மிருணாள் தாகூர். பூஜாவின் அச்சம், கோபம், வேதனை, தன்னைக் காப்பாற்றிக்கொள்ள வேண்டிய போராட்டம் என நீதிமன்றக் காட்சிகளில் ஒவ்வோர் உணர்வையும் மிக இயல்பாகக் கடத்துகிறார். வழக்கறிஞர்களாக ஹூமா குரேஷி, விஜய் ராஸ் ஆகியோரின் வாதக் காட்சிகள் படத்தை அடுத்தகட்டத்துக்கு நகர்த்துகின்றன. பெண்களைப் பற்றிய சமூகத்தின் பார்வை, பாலினப் பாகுபாடு எனப் பல கேள்விகளை முன்வைக்கிறது படம். ஆனால், முக்கியமான அனிகெட்டின் பாத்திரத்தை இன்னும் ஆழமாகக் கட்டமைத்திருக்கலாம். இருந்தும் முக்கியமான கோர்ட் ரூம் டிராமா இது!

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Good Idea Wasted in a Poor Film

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Srivathsan Nadadhur | Independent Film Critic writing for M9 News

Sat, October 3 2026

Pooja and Aniket perform a play in front of a live audience. Right after it ends, Aniket proposes marriage, only to hear that Pooja is already in a relationship with another man, Vikram. Aniket is hellbent on earning a yes from her and keeps calling her. The next morning, Pooja receives the news that Aniket is no more. How far was Pooja responsible for Aniket’s death?

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Mrunal Thakur Leads a Dime-Store Thriller About Grown-Up Themes

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Rahul Desai | The Hollywood Reporter India

Fri, October 2 2026

The over-designed social drama struggles to stay mature about the premise of an ‘imperfect’ woman who is put on trial for the suicide of her boyfriend

Pooja Meri Jaan opens with a dramatic Romeo and Juliet rendition on a Delhi stage. The Shakespearean tragedy ends with both deaths, there is applause, and the lead actors proceed to hijack the spotlight: ‘Romeo’ Aniket (Vikram Singh Chauhan) proposes to ‘Juliet’ Pooja (Mrunal Thakur) in front of a packed theatre. Seconds later, she rejects him backstage. He is devastated, her words hurt, he rides home in the rain like a broken Vishesh Films hero — and kills himself. Pooja is soon booked for abetment of suicide, and the rest of the film revolves around her trial in the court of public opinion.

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Promising Mrunal Thakur Film Let Down by Its Treatment

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Shubhra Gupta | The Indian Express

Fri, October 2 2026

Mrunal Thakur's Pooja is the kind of modern, independent young woman whom the manosphere - desi or elsewhere - hates.

Pooja (Mrunal Thakur) is in the dock. Her jilted boyfriend Aniket (Vikram Singh Chauhan) is dead, and the blame has been placed squarely upon her slender shoulders. Her lawyer Sana (Huma Qureshi) is not well-versed in criminal law, but she’s a friend, something the investigating officer Jatin (Vijay Raaz) is clearly not. He’s convinced that Pooja is responsible, and vows to make her pay. Pooja is the kind of modern, independent young woman whom the manosphere — desi or elsewhere — hates. She has a busy dating life, and doesn’t think that it’s her job to rescue the men she’s with. It’s even-stevens, and if the men have a problem, there’s the door. Which is pretty much how it should be, but of course it’s not, whether it’s in the movies or real life.

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Mrunal Thakur Steers a Sterile Critique of Male Entitlement

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Anuj Kumar | The Hindu

Fri, October 2 2026

Director Navjot Gulati presents contrasting perspectives and valid talking points on the social fallout when a girl chooses to say no.

A timely critique of patriarchal definitions of consent and female agency, Pooja Meri Jaanworks like a companion piece to films like Pink and Article 375. Operating beneath the veneer of failed romance and a courtroom thriller, the narrative interrogates the limits of male obsession and the sharp societal backlash faced by a self-actualised woman asserting her autonomy. The plot follows Pooja (Mrunal Thakur), a young woman whose firm rejection of her longtime friend Aniket’s (Vikram Singh Chauhan) romantic advances triggers a chain reaction that upends her life.

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मान न मान ‘पूजा मेरी जान’

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Deepak Dua | Independent Film Journalist & Critic writing for Cineyatra

Fri, October 2 2026

लड़के ने लड़की को सरे-स्टेज शादी के लिए प्रपोज़ किया। लड़की भीड़ में तो कुछ कह नहीं पाई लेकिन दो मिनट बाद कमरे में उसने साफ इंकार कर दिया, अंगूठी उतार फेंकी। लड़का बोला-मैं मर जाऊंगा। लड़की बोली-मेरी बला से। लड़का झूल गया। सब लोग लड़की के पीछे पड़ गए-दोस्त, पड़ोसी, मीडिया, समाज और कानून भी, कि उसी ने लड़के को आत्महत्या के लिए उकसाया था। अब बताइए, कौन सही है कौन गलत…? बरसों पहले ‘पिंक’ (Pink) के रिव्यू में मैंने लिखा था, ‘छोटे कपड़े पहनने वाली लड़कियां। दोस्तों के साथ शराब पीने और नॉन-वैज चुटकुले सुनने-सुनाने वाली लड़कियां। रात को पार्टियों में जाने वाली लड़कियां। पर क्या ये होती हैं ‘खराब’ लड़कियां? आसानी से बिस्तर पर जाने को तैयार लड़कियां? क्या हक नहीं होता इन्हें ‘न’ कहने का? और अगर ये राजी न हों तो क्या हक मिल जाता है लड़कों को, समाज को इन्हें दबाने का, कुचलने का, मार देने का?’

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Mrunal Thakur, Huma Qureshi Film Is a Thought-Provoking Exploration of Male Entitlement

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Kartik Bhardwaj | The New Indian Express

Thu, October 1 2026

It is rewarding to watch a film which questions your notions, makes you introspect on your beliefs

Mrunal Thakur and Huma Qureshi starrer legal-drama Pooja Meri Jaan–centered around a girl who gets entangled in an abetment case after her jilted lover commits suicide—drops amid powerful context. In the aftermath of the gangrape of a minor girl in a park in Delhi, central universities are erupting in protests. Women are out with placards, bearing catchy, diss couplets. How to really trust men when your feed is filled with videos of one of them forcefully picking a girl up with his hand between her thighs. The movie also comes post the Atul Subhash suicide case—about a techie who killed himself over allegations of mental harassment by his estranged wife and in-laws—and multiple incidents of women murdering their husbands and going-to-be husbands.

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