Sister Midnight

“Sister Midnight,” released theatrically in India on May 30, 2025 (after premiering at Cannes in May 2024), is a Hindi black comedy and psychological horror film that defies easy categorization. Directed by Karan Kandhari, the film stars Radhika Apte in a captivating and unconventional role as Uma, a newlywed bride thrust into a stifling arranged marriage.Sister Midnight (2024) Movie Download.

The story begins with Uma’s arrival in Mumbai, moving into a cramped, one-room home with her husband, Gopal (Ashok Pathak). Their marriage is loveless and awkward from the start, with Gopal often detached and neglectful. Uma, headstrong and defiant, struggles with the restrictive expectations of a traditional housewife; she’s clueless about domestic chores and expresses her frustrations openly. Her only solace comes from her kind, yet traditional, neighbor Sheetal and, eventually, a group of trans women she befriends near her job as a cleaner.

As Uma’s frustration and loneliness deepen, she begins to experience a bizarre transformation. She becomes increasingly pale and sickly, a symptom dismissed by others as a desire for skin-whitening cream. However, her condition escalates into a craving for blood, leading her to kill animals and, in a surreal and darkly comedic turn, even her husband. The film leans into surrealism, with elements of horror like stop-motion animated animals that come to life and a growing sense of the uncanny. “Sister Midnight” uses its genre-bending narrative to critique patriarchal norms, societal pressures, and the suppression of female desires, as Uma’s transformation becomes a powerful, albeit horrifying, rebellion against the life she’s been forced into.