Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta to star in Zee5’s Dial 100, see motion poster

Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta and Sakshi Tanwar will be seen in the Zee5 thriller Dial 100, which is due to be released next month.

Produced by Sony Pictures Films India and Alchemy Films,  the suspense film has been directed by Rensil D’Silva.

The newly released motion poster begins with the menacing visuals of a gun being fired and shows Gupta and  Tanwar seated in a car. Bajpayee, who is playing a police officer, is shown on the opposite side of Gupta, leading us to believe that their characters will be at odds with each other.

Dial 100 is said to take place over the course of  “one night where one call turns everyone’s lives upside down”. From the film’s title, it is evident that the call will be to the police.

Bajpayee has received much acclaim for his recent performances in the second season of Amazon Prime’s The Family Man and Netflix’s anthology Ray. Meanwhile, Gupta released her autobiography Sach Kahun Toh which was published by Penguin Random House India last month.

Zee5 India’s chief business officer, Manish Kalra, said in a statement that Dial 100 is a complete package with a stellar cast, compelling writing, pacey direction and edge-of-the-seat suspense. "We are confident that this film will surprise, shock and move the audience and leave them wanting more,” Kalra said.

Sony Pictures Films India’s managing director, Vivek Krishnani, said, “Rarely, do we get to see a union of such gifted actors like Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta and Sakshi Tanwar combined with the creative energies of Siddharth Malhotra and director Rensil D’Silva to create such an intelligent and thrilling movie.”

Stating that his production house was excited to partner with Zee5 and Sony Pictures Film India, Siddharth P Malhotra of Alchemy Films said, “The movie’s script was one of its most powerful elements which has been executed even more beautifully by the cast and crew, taking the movie a notch up (sic)."

Finally, D'Silva, who last directed Ungli (2014), said the movie would not have been the same without the involvement of the powerhouse star cast. "I am so glad that we were able to do this together. The movie with its many twists is sure to surprise the audience and keep them enthralled from start to end," he said.