Missing 2 2017

A sunlit vacation spirals into a tangle of secrets and fear as a routine business trip to a Mauritius resort becomes the stage for a dangerous game of truth and illusion. Sushant Dubey travels with his wife Aparna and their young daughter Titli, securing a room upgrade that sets the scene for a quiet, intimate escape. The couple’s private moment is interrupted by a disturbing presence below: a neighbor who seems to lurk in the hallways, peering into rooms. The tension rises when Titli disappears in the middle of the night, and the initial suspicion lands squarely on the man in the room beneath them.

What begins as a complicated love affair soon unravels into a startling revelation: Sushant and Aparna are not married. They had met on a ferry to the island, forming a bond that grew into a clandestine liaison rather than a conventional union. Sushant carries the burden of an unhappy marriage, while Aparna is navigating a fraught past of divorce. The pair decide to spend a few more days together at the resort, hoping to keep their arrangement private. But Titli’s disappearance shatters that plan, forcing Aparna to confront the consequences of their choices as the hotel’s desire to avoid scandal clashes with the need to find the missing child.

Inspector Buddhu leads the investigation, and the case quickly widens beyond a simple missing-child mystery. CCTV footage points to a creepy downstairs neighbor who has already checked out, and a televised image of him with a little girl only deepens the confusion. When he is brought in for questioning, it becomes clear that the girl he’s seen with is not Titli—the man explains that the girl is his own daughter, now in another family’s care. The inspector enlists a sketch artist, producing two starkly different drawings based on Aparna’s and Sushant’s descriptions, underscoring the growing doubt about what is real and what is imagined.

As the interrogation intensifies, a troubling confession emerges: Aparna’s infertility and the stress of their precarious situation have strained her mental state. The disappearance of Titli may be tied to deeper delusions, and Sushant suggests the possibility that Titli is not a real child at all. He eventually reveals a harsher truth to Buddhu—that he and Aparna had no formal marriage and that Titli’s imagined identity may have shadowed their entire encounter at the resort. Yet even as suspicion rises, Sushant admits he cannot sustain the ruse any longer and attempts to distance himself from the tangled web they’ve woven.

The tension peaks when Sushant hints at a dangerous plan: that Titli has been kidnapped at the behest of a friend who is connected to Aparna’s past. He props up a ruse to push Aparna out, and the pair flee through the resort with heavy luggage, prompting questions about how they could slip past front-desk security amid accusations of staff lapses. The chase continues into the surrounding forest, where exhaustion and fear threaten to overwhelm them. In a moment of eerie calm, Aparna asks for Titli, and Sushant reveals that he never truly kidnapped anyone—yet the truth is more unsettling: Titli is not a simple child’s absence, and Aparna’s reality may be far more distorted than anyone suspected.

The final reveal comes from an unexpected source: an elderly man who asks after his daughter Titli and produces a photo that seems to prove Titli’s existence beyond the couple’s story. The truth emerges with brutal clarity—Titli is not a child at all, but a dangerous mental patient who has escaped an asylum, and the person many believed to be Titli is, in fact, Aparna herself. As the revelation sinks in, the film takes a dark turn: the deranged Titli, a manifestation of Aparna, closes in on Sushant and lashes out with a meat cleaver, ending the story in the forest with a shocking, fatal attack.

Throughout its twists, the film maintains a cool, methodical pace that keeps the audience guessing about what is real and what is imagined. It layers psychological tension with the claustrophobic atmosphere of a resort setting, turning a seemingly ordinary vacation into a grim meditation on desire, guilt, and the fragility of perception. The ending leaves a lasting impression of how quickly trust can unravel when the line between truth and delusion becomes perilously thin, and how a single identity can harbor multiple, conflicting versions of a person’s life.