Mrs Serial Killer

Mrs Serial Killer

Mrs. Serial Killer, also spelt as Mrs Serial Killer is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film, produced as an Original for Netflix. The film is written and directed by Shirish Kunder and produced by his wife Farah Khan. The film stars Jacqueline Fernandez, Manoj Bajpayee and Mohit Raina in the main lead roles while Aamir Khan's niece Zayn Marie makes her acting debut appearance in a film.[1] This web film also marks second digital appearance for Fernandez who was last seen in Drive, also her first collaboration with Netflix.[2][3]

Jacqueline plays the titular role of the film. The film is scheduled to stream via Netflix on 1 May coinciding with the May Day.[4][5] The release date of the film was announced in a video by the actress herself on 14 April coinciding with the Puthandu.[6][7] The video was shared on Netflix India's social media account.

Plot

Sona Mukerjee, a medical professor, is married it a well respected gynaecologist, Dr. Mrityunjoy Mukerjee (Joy), who dotes on her like a loving husband. One day while on a business trip with his medical team, Sona video chats with him to tell him that she is pregnant, news he receives with excitement. After the call, there is knock on the door which Sona answers. Inspector Imran Shahid stumbles to the door, clearly intoxicated, telling Sona to let him in to question her about the whereabouts of 6 missing women. Sona flatly refuses to let him in which prompts Imran to show her a picture of both of them together in his wallet. After Sona tells him to go away, he barges into the house. Imran attempts to surreptitiously collect Joy's used cigarettes and comb while engaging in an argument with Sona. When Imran tries to leave, Sona notices what he was trying to do and confronts him. He tells her that if her husband is innocent then she has nothing to worry about.

The next day, Imran calls his partner and some volunteers to come to Joy's clinic as he has found something. When his partner and volunteers arrive, Imran stumbles out of a cellar door and vomits from what he has seen. Everyone goes down to see what is there and much to everyone's horror, find 6 fetuses in separate jars and a cut up woman hanging horizontally from the ceiling. Imran orders everyone to begin digging in the backyard of the clinic. Five young female bodies are found which causes the town to panic.

Joy is promptly arrested, leaving Sona distraught and worried. Throughout the chaos and riots for Joy to be hung, Sona sees him in jail. Joy tells her that he is innocent and that he loves her very much. She tells him that she knows he is not capable of doing such heinous things but due to the nature of the crime, no lawyer in town wants to defend him. He tells her to contact one of his former patients, Mr. Rastogi, who is a well known defense attorney. Sona promptly contacts Rastogi who agrees to defend Joy, since Joy has taken care of him so well. During the bail hearing, the prosecution demands that Joy be held without bail due to the severity of the crime and DNA evidence from hair and saliva (from the cigarette) found at the scene that matches Joy. Despite Rastogi's protest, the judge agrees with the prosecution and remands Joy. Terrified at the thought of losing her husband forever, Sona meets Rastogi again to ask what she should do to prove her husband's innocence. Rastogi asks her how she is so sure of Joy's innocence. Sona tells him that she knows her husband is innocent because she knows that the killer is none other than her ex boyfriend, Imran Shahid. She tells him that Imran planted the evidence against Joy because he was jealous of the fact that Sona married Joy and is happy with him. Rastogi says that it all makes sense how the evidence was so perfect, but unfortunately since they cannot prove that the evidence was planted, she has to either resign herself to the fact that her husband will be in jail forever or that she can take matters into her own hands. He tells her that the easiest way to prove her husband's innocence is by committing the murder of a single pregnant woman with the same modus operandi while her husband is in jail. Hesitant at first, Sona decides that she will do whatever it takes to save her husband.

Sona finds a list of pregnant women from a women's clinic by posing as a patient herself at the office. She finds that three women on the list are pregnant. In order to figure out whether or not they are single, she calls them on a burner phone posing as a secretary from a hotel offering a free stay for married couples. After striking out on the first two, she calls the third woman. Recognising her voice, Sona realises it is none other than Anushka Tiwari, one of her students and coincidentally her neighbour. Realising she has no choice but to chose Anushka as her victim, she begins stalking her to figure out her routine. She finds out that Anushka is an avid martial artist and that her boyfriend, Sid, is not very happy about the pregnancy. While planning the kidnapping mentally outside, Sona's maid accidentally breaks a glass of chloroform that was in the kitchen and fills it with water to avoid getting into trouble. Dressing up as a janitor, Sona follows Anushka into a dark alley with the intention of kidnapping her using chloroform to knock her out. Due to the chloroform really being water, Anushka begins to fights Sona off (still unaware of her true identity). After being chased into a flower field, Anushka begins to lose her breath. Sona realises that Anushka has asthma and throws pollen in her face to weaken her. Sona binds Anushka spread eagle to a bed and blind folds her while she is passed out. In order to mask her voice, she creates a voice board on her phone to prevent Anushka from recognising her. After a lot of research, Sona gains the courage to try to perform an abortion and kill Anushka, but is prevented from doing so after Anushka begs her to let her go and that she will not tell anyone anything since she does not know who the kidnapper even is. Swayed by Anushka's tactic, Sona goes outside the room to call Rastogi to ask if the kidnapping itself is sufficient enough to prove her husband's innocence and if she can let Anushka go because she cannot bring herself to commit murder. While Sona is on the phone, Anushka manages to escape and hide. When Sona re-enters the room, Anushka attacks her but apologises for attacking Sona because she meant to attack the killer. Sona lies to Anushka by telling her that she heard a noise and came to investigate. Anushka sees Sona's phone which is open to the voice board and realises that Sona is the one that kidnapped her. In another fight, Anushka attempts to incapacitate Sona, but Sona is able to quickly inject Anushka with anaesthetics. News spreads about Anushka's disappearance, which confuses and stuns Imran. As a result, the town believes the real killer is still out there and is angry at Imran for arresting the wrong person. This causes Imran to become a pariah for bad his poor detective work.

Soon a body is found in the same fashion as the other previous bodies, which leads the court to release Joy on bail pending trial. Once Joy is home, Sona takes Joy to the basement of the clinic and shows him Anushka, who is very much alive and tied up on the bed. She tells him that she bought an unclaimed body and fetus from the hospital that she uses to teach her students and used her tattoo skills to mimic Anushka's body and cut it up in the same fashion as the other girls. Sona asks Joy what to do with Anushka and he tells her that they need to think of a plan calmly. Unbeknownst to them, Sid sees them leaving the building as they go home to celebrate Joy's first night home and sneaks in to find Anushka. When trying to free her, he hears a noise and follows Anushka's instructions to grabs a rod and hide in the closet, only for it to jam shut locking him in.

Sona wakes up in the middle of the night to find Joy missing and not answering his phone. She also notices Joy's car missing, which makes her believe he might be at the clinic with Anushka. As Sona arrives to the clinic, she hears noises coming from the room where Anushka is held. Much to her horror, she sees Joy preparing to perform an abortion on Anushka. Sona tries to stop him, which causes him to stab her hand with a scalpel, pinning her to a table. Joy reveals that he kills single pregnant women because they are whores like his mother who abandoned him as a child and left him to be molested by his adoptive parents. Sid, still trapped in the closet, yells out to distract Joy from hurting the women. Joy opens the closet and easily subdues Sids, tying him to a chair next to Sona. While Joy is distracted in his own lunacy, Sona manages to text Imran her location and what is happening. Imran manages to sneak in while Joy leaves the room to grab a new scalpel. Joy sees Imran and they engage in a fight, which results in Joy subduing Imran and tying him to a chair. Joy picks up Imran's fallen wallet and sees a picture of woman, Afreen, which is revealed to be Imran's sister. It is revealed that many years ago (in a different city) Sona and Imran were in love and wanted to get married but Sona's parents wanted her to marry a surgeon since they are surgeons as well. Sona and Imran "elope" joyfully. Later when Imran goes home, he finds out that Afreen had been brutally murdered, devastating him. After realising that his sister was seeing a gynaecologist due to an unwanted pregnancy, Imran figured out that it was Joy who killed his sister and he went to confront Joy at his clinic. Joy hit Imran from behind with a rod, which placed him in a coma for two years. In those two years, Sona, unaware of what happened to Imran, was coerced by her parents to marry Joy. Once Imran came out of his coma, he traced Joy to the city that he was newly residing in and in the process finds out that Sona was Joy's wife, devastating him that the person he loves the most married the person who he hates the most. Imran is able to free himself and fights with Joy while Sona frees Sid and attempts to escape with Anushka. In the ensuing chaos, Joy stabs Sona in the stomach killing their baby and Imran stabs Joy in the spine, presumably killing him.

Sona wakes up in the hospital with Imran by her side and Anushka thanking her for giving her and Sid a new beginning. When the doctor comes in to see Sona, he tells her that despite the fact she lost her baby, she will still be able to conceive again. Imran asks him if the body (Joy's) has been sent for post mortem. The doctor, confused, says that the man that was brought in is alive as they were able to revive him. In a panic, Imran runs to Joy's room only to find Joy missing.

In the final scene, we see Mrs. Rastogi rolling Joy into a black SVU with Mr. Rastogi being the driver. Mr. Rastogi asks her if anyone saw them, to which she replies no.