Death In The Gunj is an Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Konkona Sen Sharma. The film features an ensemble cast of Vikrant Massey, Tillotama Shome, Om Puri, Tanuja, Gulshan Devaiah, Kalki Koechlin, Jim Sarbh and Ranvir Shorey. Produced by Ashish Bhatnagar, Vijay Kumar Swami, Raagii Bhatnagar, Abhishek Chaubey, and Honey Trehan under the banners of Studioz IDrream and MacGuffin Pictures.
In McCluskieganj, Bihar (now in Jharkhand) an old Anglo-Indian town in 1979, two men, Nandu and Brian, stare at a dead body inside the trunk of their car. They discuss what to do with it. They then drive away with a third person Shutu sitting in the backseat of the car from the front of a morgue. The film then flashes back to one week earlier.
Nandu, his wife, Bonnie, their daughter, Tani, Bonnie’s friend, Mimi, and his cousin, Shyamal “Shutu,” arrive at Nandu’s parents’ house in McCluskiegunj from Calcutta. Later, Nandu’s friends, Vikram and Brian, arrive with the former being recently engaged. Shutu, who the movie focuses on, is shown to be extremely sensitive and gentle, which often makes him the butt of the jokes and pranks played by his family and friends. Despite having been a topper in his school, he just failed his exams and misses his recently-passed father greatly. His closest companion in the family is Tani, and Nandu’s mother is the only other person who seems to care for him.
