Crazxy: 2025 Hindi Crime Thriller Film, Trailer, Songs, Review

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Movie Name: Crazxy
Directed by: Girish Kohli
Starring: Sohum Shah, Tinnu Anand
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Release Date: 28 February, 2025
Language: Hindi
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Production Companies: Sohum Shah Films

Crazxy: Movie Overview

Crazxy is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language thriller film written and directed by Girish Kohli. The film is produced under the banner of Sohum Shah Films. The film will star Sohum Shah who is also one of the producers along with Mukesh Shah, Amita Shah and Adesh Prasad.

The film schedule for release in theatres on 28 February 2025.

Crazxy follows the gripping story of a doctor thrust into a high-stakes cat-and-mouse chase after receiving a chilling phone call—setting him up for a Crazxy ride. As he races against time, every road unravels shocking twists and turns, pulling him deeper into a relentless web of mystery and danger.

Sohum had hinted at this film in May 2023 and during the re-release of Tumbbad, he announced his next film Crazxy.

The music is composed by Vishal Bhardwaj while the lyrics are written by Gulzar. Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Anand Bakshi, Jesper Kyd, Harshavardhan Rameshwar, Osho Jain have also contributed to composing music alongside Vishal Bhardwaj.

Movie is scheduled to release on 28 February 2025.

Movie Trailer:

Movie Review:

Sohum Shah almost pulls off a blinder

Director Girish Kohli’s moral thriller goes off-road after an adrenaline-filled start

We get so many spam calls these days that it is hard to figure out which ones are real. Then, while driving the car, you listen to FM stations where prank calls drive the programming. Director Girish Kohli employs this odd everyday reality in this thrilling race against time.

On the way to the hospital to settle a crucial deal, doctor Abhimanyu (Sohum Shah) gets a mysterious call telling him that his daughter has been kidnapped, and he has time till sunset to save her life. As Abhimanyu presses the pedal, Kohli drops red herrings on the highway. Gradually, we discover that Abhimanyu is an inadequate surgeon and a flawed father.

Mounted as a one-character thriller where the supporting actors appear only in the form of voices, eventually, the moral voice is the loudest. One can make out that the ransom call is made by Tinnu Anand in his impressive baritone even before he is introduced as the teacher of the doctor’s daughter. There is an ex-wife (voiced by Nimisha Sajayan) doubting the doctor’s intentions because of their past. There is a current flame (voiced by Shilpa Shukla) who shifts the needle of suspicion on the ex-wife. Meanwhile, Abhimanyu’s boss (voiced by Piyush Shukla) feels that the doctor is using the kidnapping as a ruse to escape from the deal.

The conversations are sharp, meaningful, and engaging and create a sense of urgency as the characters sound crazy at one point and sympathetic and rational at another. The background score and cinematography generate an adrenaline rush and play with the mind. Girish cleverly uses Amitabh Bachchan’s iconic dialogue in Sarkar as a ringtone and, towards the climax, creatively employs the superstar’s Inquilab number to depict the dilemma of Abhimanyu. The highlight is the sequence where the doctor multitasks to meet two deadlines simultaneously. It captures the limits of human endurance and pulls us to the edge of the seat.

However, the ingenuity starts fading as Abhimanyu crosses the Delhi border. Girish expects the audience to go with the emotion and keep the logic out of reckoning. It doesn’t work. As the questions clog the head, the interest goes off-road. After a point, the storyline works like those film school scripts woven around a brilliant idea that gathers dust on a producer’s table because of an underwhelming second act and a laboured third. The film gradually becomes a showreel of the acting chops of Sohum, who has also produced the film. He is usually efficient and is solid here as the morally ambivalent doctor. In Ship of Theseus and Tumbbad, Sohum has backed two crazy ideas that swept us off our feet, but here, after the initial promise and purpose, the hook loses its hold. But then, you can’t complain too much, for Girish tells us early that the story unfolds on April Fool’s Day.