Independent filmmaker Rohit Arora returned to the big screen this week with his boldest film yet — McGuffin, a genre-blurring detective ...
Independent filmmaker Rohit Arora returned to the
big screen this week with his boldest film yet — McGuffin, a genre-blurring
detective thriller set against the backdrop of one of the most controversial
conspiracy theories of our time. The film releases in theatres across India on
August 8, under the Roar Picture Company banner, co-produced by Arora and
Sarrah Durga.
Best known for his deeply immersive approach to
storytelling, Rohit Arora doesn’t just direct his films — he writes them, edits
them, and more often than not, ends up acting in them too. Not because he wants
to be in front of the camera — in fact, he tried to avoid it — but because he
says no one else can carry the emotional weight his stories demand over the
years it takes to make them.
“These characters go through so much, and they live
inside the story for so long,” Arora explains. “It’s not about performing —
it’s about being completely vulnerable to the journey. That’s hard to ask of
anyone else.”
McGuffin is unlike anything Indian audiences have
seen. It follows a private detective hired to track down a mysterious figure
named “McGuffin.” But the deeper he digs, the stranger the world becomes —
blurring reality, belief, and madness. The film draws loose inspiration from
Eric Dubay’s book The Flat Earth Conspiracy, but takes that premise into
unexpected philosophical and psychological terrain.
The film comes after the success of Arora’s 2020
feature The Pickup Artist, which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
With McGuffin, he’s taking another leap — both creatively and personally —
delivering a story that’s equal parts mystery, mind-game, and cinematic
experiment.
“Every time I think I’ll stay behind the camera,”
he says, “the story pulls me back in.”
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