Andhadhun

Pune-based Akash Saraf is an up-and-coming pianist who fakes being blind as an experiment to improve his piano skills. One day, while crossing the street, he is knocked over by Sophie. She helps him up and learns that he is a pianist. Sophie is impressed by Akash’s talent and gets him an engagement at her father’s diner. Akash usually wears opaque lenses to practice playing piano, but after meeting Sophie, he is tempted to look at her. He stops wearing his opaque lenses and simply pretends to be blind. They both soon begin a romantic relationship. At the dinner, a retired actor, Pramod Sinha, notices Akash and invites him to give a private performance for his wedding anniversary.

Akash arrives at the Sinhas’ flat and Pramod’s wife Simi opens the door. Simi, to avoid a nosy neighbour who happened to be watching and seeing that Akash is blind, lets Akash in to play the piano. Akash sees a dead body nearby, which he realizes is Pramod’s, but has to feign ignorance and continue to play to keep up his act of being blind. He also sees Manohar, Simi’s paramour, hiding in the bathroom with a gun. Simi and Manohar clean the crime scene and stuff the body into a suitcase while Akash plays. Akash sits on a bench to take everything in. Then, he sees a lottery ticket seller, Sakhu who has a Lord Shiva tattoo sells a lottery ticket to Ayush without really giving him the choice but tells her to call a rickshaw in return to which she calls Murli, an auto-rickshaw driver who has Aishwarya Rai’s photo on the back of his auto.

Akash tries to report the murder to the police but is dissuaded when he discovers that Manohar is a police inspector over there, and makes up lies about his cat being missing. Meanwhile, Simi overhears her elderly neighbour, Mrs. D’Sa, talking to a police officer about seeing an unknown man going to the Sinhas’ flat the day of Pramod’s murder. Simi later kills Mrs. D’Sa by pushing her off the ledge of their apartment. Akash happens to witness upon arrival to give piano lessons to Pramod’s daughter, but is forced to continue feigning blindness. A neighbour’s child, suspicious of Akash’s blindness, records a video of Akash fully able to see. Simi goes to Akash’s house and hands him the temple’s offerings as Akash makes coffee for them. After poisoning his coffee, she observes him carefully and busts his act after he spills the coffee on purpose. Akash says he will leave for London and keep Simi’s secret, but gets drugged by the offerings.

The neighbour’s child shows the video to Sophie. As she arrives, Simi arranges things to make it look like she and Akash had slept together. Furious and heartbroken, Sophie leaves. When he wakes up, he realises that he has been blinded by Simi. Manohar enters Akash’s house to kill him, but he barely escapes, and faints after hitting a telephone pole.

Akash wakes up in an illegal organ harvesting clinic run by Dr. Swami. He and his assistants Murli, the rickshaw driver and Sakhu, the lottery ticket seller decide to spare Akash when Akash tells Sakhu has a Lord Shiva tattoo which he saw before being blind and it shocks the 3 as Akash was blind. The next morning, Akash tells everything about Murli too, Akash also tells them about the murder secret from which could earn them millions They kidnap Simi, stage her suicide scene, and blackmail Manohar. However, Murli and Sakhu double-cross Akash, tie him up with Simi, and plan to take the money for themselves. At the rendezvous, Manohar shoots Murli but is trapped in an elevator and accidentally shoots and kills himself. The money is revealed to be counterfeit.

Simi helps Akash free himself and he removes her blindfold. While he is trying to find an escape for the both of them, Simi frees herself and attacks him. Swami enters; after a brief fight, he and Akash knock Simi out, tie her up in the boot of a car, and drive away. Swami reveals that Simi has a rare blood type and that her organs would sell for millions; he also plans to use her corneas to restore Akash’s sight. Simi awakens in the boot, and when Swami stops the car to sedate her again, she overpowers him and seizes the wheel. Akash, thinking Swami is still driving, pleads to release Simi.

Two years later at a gig in Kraków, Sophie finds Akash. Akash explains to her the whole story. In a flashback, we are shown that She drops Akash off and tries to run him over, but a hare hits the windshield of the car, causing Simi to lose control and die when the car crashes and bursts into flames. Sophie tells him he should have listened to Swami. Akash continues along, knocking a can away from his path with his walking stick, hinting that he did take Simi’s cornea.

Last Updated: September 20, 2025 at 11:47