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‘Half’ follows twin vampires seeking revenge in a violent future India
Half is an action-horror film directed by Samjad and set in a near-future India.
It follows twins Ethan and Ivy, who are part human and part vampire, on a road trip toward Mumbai.
In a desert area, a criminal gang attacks and kills a family travelling the same route.
The gang then targets the twins, but they recover after the sun goes down and seek revenge.
Sunlight is their main weakness, and Ivy is deaf and non-verbal, leaving her especially vulnerable.
The film also depicts a network of crime that reaches beyond the roadside gang to include police who take bribes and ignore wrongdoing.
Half premiered in the Midnight Madness strand at the Toronto International Film Festival and has since screened on the genre circuit.
Half is a violent revenge thriller about twin vampires in a dystopian future India.
Directed by Samjad, the film follows Ethan and Ivy as they travel toward Mumbai’s Pai Nagar.
After a desert gang attacks a family and targets the twins, Ethan and Ivy take revenge.
The twins can regenerate after sunset, but sunlight is their only weakness.
Ivy is deaf and non-verbal, adding to the danger they face.
- Who
- Twin vampires Ethan and Ivy, played by Ranjith Sajeev and Aiswarya Raj.
- What
- They seek revenge on a desert criminal gang after it attacks a family and targets them.
- When
- In the none-too-distant future.
- Where
- On a desert route toward Pai Nagar, in the Mumbai district.
- Why
- The twins take revenge after the gang attacks them; the article describes the attack as part of the film’s plot.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
A flashback shows Ethan and Ivy fighting while their mother says raising them will be the end of her.
Ethan and Ivy travel toward Pai Nagar as a family makes the same journey across the desert.
The gang targets the twins, whose bodies regenerate after the sun goes down.
Ethan and Ivy take revenge on the gang members.
- Director
- Samjad
- Twins
- Ethan and Ivy
- Actors
- Ranjith Sajeev and Aiswarya Raj
- Destination
- Pai Nagar, in the Mumbai district
- Music
- Midhun Mukundan’s techno-bhangra score
- Premiere
- TIFF’s Midnight Madness strand
What people are saying
Born of mortal dust and vampire blood, the twins walk in darkness
Raising you two will be the end of me
Sir! Sir! Oil leak!
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