In the shadow of snow-capped mountains, a small town lives in quiet fear. Every sunrise feels borrowed, every silence heavy with unspoken truths. That’s the haunting backdrop of Baramulla, a tense new Netflix original set in the conflict-scarred valleys of Kashmir. Directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale and led by Manav Kaul with Bhasha Sumbli and Arista Mehta, it blends crime, horror, and mystery into a stark portrait of loss and resolve. The trailer is at the end of the article.
Set against the stark beauty of northern India, Baramulla follows a police officer whose search for missing children unravels a lattice of secrets. What begins as procedure turns into a reckoning as the investigation collides with superstition, history, and a community conditioned to keep quiet. The film moves like a night patrol—measured, alert, aware that danger may be waiting just off the road.
Kaul anchors the story with a weary, coiled intensity—an officer who knows the difference between what the report says and what the valley remembers. Sumbli brings quiet, flinty resolve as a mother caught between faith and fear, while Mehta shades the mystery with fragile warmth. Their interplay keeps the film intimate even as the stakes widen.
Jambhale’s direction favors long, watchful takes and sudden ruptures. The camera drinks in the valley’s cold blue dawns and claustrophobic interiors, letting the silence throb before breaking it with a door slam, a radio hiss, a child’s echo. It’s visual poetry with teeth—beauty that refuses to look away from what haunts it.
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Underneath the procedural, Baramulla is about memory and complicity: how communities adapt to fear, how truth survives in whispers, and how the supernatural can feel like the only language left when grief has no witness. Its genre trappings sharpen, rather than soften, the film’s moral questions.
Early critical reads out of India highlight the film’s atmospheric pull and Kaul’s performance, noting how the horror elements serve a deeper human story about parents, children, and the fractures that never fully heal. It’s a locally rooted tale with a universal ache, expanding Netflix’s slate of Indian thrillers that travel across borders.
If you’re drawn to tense, character-driven mysteries, this sits comfortably alongside our favorite thrillers on Netflix. And if the setting captivates you, keep exploring contemporary Indian cinema now streaming in the U.S.
All the key details about Baramulla
- Original title: Baramulla
- Genre: Crime – Horror – Mystery – Drama
- Country of production: India
- Year of release: 2025
- Directed by: Aditya Suhas Jambhale
- Main cast: Manav Kaul, Bhasha Sumbli, Arista Mehta
- Produced by: Aditya Dhar, Lokesh Dhar
- Release date on Netflix: November 7, 2025
► WATCH ON NETFLIX: Official page for Baramulla
In the meantime, enjoy the trailer below.
