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| director      = Shravankumar Tiwari
| director      = [[Shravan Tiwari]]
| producer      = [[Sandip Patel]]
| producer      = Sandip Patel
| writer        = Shravan Kumar
| writer        = Shravan Tiwari
| starring      = [[Atul Kulkarni]]<br />[[Divya Dutta]]<br />[[Mohan Agashe]]
| starring      = [[Atul Kulkarni]]<br />[[Divya Dutta]]<br />[[Mohan Agashe]]
| music          = Amar Mohile
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| distributor    = Panorama Studio
| released      = {{film date|df=y|2019|01|11}}
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| runtime        = 122 minutes
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'''''706''''' is a 2019 [[Hindi]] supernatural [[thriller film]] directed by [[Shravan Tiwari]] and produced by Sandip Patel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theindianwire.com/entertainment/divya-dutta-atul-kulkarni-706-92868/|title=Shravan Kumar's '706' will now release one week before, on January 11|last=Shambhavi|date=2019-01-08|website=The Indian Wire|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref> The film was released on 11 January 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/706-movie-review-cast-director/1434957|title=706 movie: Review, cast, director|last=Thomas|first=Johnson|date=2019-01-11|website=Freepressjournal : Latest Indian news,Live updates|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.glamsham.com/en/movie-review-706|title=706 relies heavily on black magic and a strong performance by Atul Kulkarni, rather than snaky and exciting turns.|last=Glamsham|website=Glamsham|date=11 January 2019|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref>
'''''706''''' is a 2019 [[Hindi]] paranormal [[thriller film]] directed by Shravan Kumar and produced by Sandip Patel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theindianwire.com/entertainment/divya-dutta-atul-kulkarni-706-92868/|title=Shravan Kumar's '706' will now release one week before, on January 11|last=Shambhavi|date=2019-01-08|website=The Indian Wire|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref> The film was released on 11 January 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/706-movie-review-cast-director/1434957|title=706 movie: Review, cast, director|last=Thomas|first=Johnson|date=2019-01-11|website=Freepressjournal : Latest Indian news,Live updates|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.glamsham.com/en/movie-review-706|title=706 relies heavily on black magic and a strong performance by Atul Kulkarni, rather than snaky and exciting turns.|last=Glamsham|website=Glamsham|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==


The film opens with the disappearance of a noted Mumbai physician Dr Anil Asthana. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Shekhawat ( [[Atul Kulkarni]]) assures his wife, Suman, that they are doing all they can but she is dismissive, this assurance, like the others before it, is empty. Suman, also a psychiatrist doctor, returns to her hospital. There is a new patient, a 10 year old boy, who suffers from convulsions but whose reports are perfectly normal. Suman is about to discharge the boy but his parents beseech her to examine him; the boy had specifically asked for her after his last bout of convulsions.
In Mumbai, psychiatrist Dr. Suman searches for her missing husband, Dr. Anil Asthana. A young boy admitted to her hospital claims Asthana is dead and reveals the exact location of his body. Deputy Commissioner Shekhawat investigates the case and suspects supernatural involvement connected to his own past crime and a protective talisman given by a spiritual master.


Suman interviews the boy. He looks at her balefully and says he knows everything. He says that the missing Dr Asthana is dead and the body is in the woods outside Lonavla. Shekhawat is called and the body is found exactly where the boy had said. Upon questioning by Shekhawat, the boy alludes to a ‘woman whose anklets sounded so sweet’ and Shekhawat recoils in horror. It is revealed that Shekhawat had a lover (with sweet sounding anklets) in Benares. She became pregnant, there was an argument and Shekhawat, who could not risk his own marriage, strangled her and buried her body in Benares. She returned as a ghost and began chasing Shekhawat. Shekhawat sought the advice of a spiritual master, Dinkar, who prepared a charmed talisman; as long as Shekhawat wore the talisman the ghost could not harm him. Shekhawat sends a video of the convulsing boy to Dinkar. Dinkar says the boy is possessed and Shekhawat, though protected by the talisman, should stay away from the boy.
As the investigation progresses, the boy appears to be possessed by the spirit of Suman’s former patient who died by suicide. The spirit seeks revenge against both Suman and Shekhawat for their past actions. Realizing the only way to end the threat, Suman accepts responsibility for her crimes and sacrifices her own life to free the boy from possession. The spirit departs, leaving Shekhawat unprotected as he returns home to face the consequences of his past.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shravan Kumar's '706' will now release one week before, on January 11 |url=https://www.theindianwire.com/entertainment/divya-dutta-atul-kulkarni-706-92868/ |website=The Indian Wire |date=8 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=706 movie review: A drab whodunnit |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/706-movie-review-atul-kulkarni-divya-dutta-5534237/ |website=The Indian Express |language=en |date=11 January 2019}}</ref>


Shekhawat begins his investigations. The boy and his parents were in room 706 of a hotel on a night when another youth leaped to his death from the roof of the same hotel. The hotel security cameras show Suman visiting the hotel. Suman denies this. Shekhawat asks why she hurried to meet him when he mentioned the hotel. She admits she was indeed there. The youth was her patient. His lover had left him to marry an NRI overseas. The youth became suicidal. Suman had prescribed sedatives. On the night of his death Suman had gone to check on him but she had been too late; he had jumped to his death. Shekhawat tells Suman that the ghost of the youth has possessed the boy. Suman dismisses the idea. Shekhawat sighs. He is not an impressionable ignoramus. He was an engineer before he joined the police, he is a fierce rationalist, but his own experiences with his lover ghost have made him aware of the other world. Suman is not convinced.
==Cast==
* [[Mohan Agashe]] as Dr Anil Asthana
* [[Divya Dutta]] as Dr Suman Asthana
* [[Atul Kulkarni]] as D.C.P. Abhay Shekhawat
* [[Anupam Shyam]] as Baba in Banaras
* Raayo S. Bakhirta as Rahul Bora
* Yashvit Sancheti as Neeraj Jaimal
* Greeva Kansara as Sunita
* Hetal Rathod as Abhay's wife
* Nirali Joshi as Dr Suman's receptionist


Shekhawat visits his spiritual master Dinkar in Benares. Dinkar confirms that it is indeed the ghost of the youth inside the boy, it wants revenge against Suman. The youth ghost is working with the lover’s ghost, they want to destroy Shekhawat and Suman. What can be done, asks Shekhawat. Dinkar says there are two options: get the youth’s ghost to leave the boy or kill the boy. Dinkar says the youth is set upon revenge and will not leave the boy so the latter is the only option.
==Release==
The film ''706'' was released on 11 January 2019.Prior to its theatrical release, promotional content for the film was published on YouTube on 19 December 2018. The project is associated with producer Sandip Patel and director Shravan kumar.<ref>{{cite web |title=706 - Official Teaser |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/hindi/706-official-teaser/videoshow/67159102.cms |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hungama |first1=Bollywood |title=Theatrical Trailer (706) {{!}} Video Trailer - Bollywood Hungama |url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/videos/movie-promos/theatrical-trailer-706/ |language=en}}</ref>


Shekhawat returns to Mumbai and discusses the options with Suman. The boy must be killed. Suman reveals that she had taken the youth as her lover but had tired of him and broken it off. He continued pursuing her so she gave him an overdose of an anti depressive which caused an emotional rush that led him to kill himself. She killed her own husband with similar over-medication to escape her dreary marriage. Suman defiantly refuses to kill the boy. Shekhawat gives her the evening to think it over. In the morning, having worked out there is no other way, she agrees. She asks for protection; Shekhawat gives her the talisman. She calls in the parents of the boy and explains that she needs their consent to perform a deep psychological experiment on the boy in the room (706) where the trauma had begun. They agree. She brings the boy, sedated, to the room in the hotel. She now speaks to the ghost of the youth. She will go to him, he will leave the boy. She kills herself and the ghost leaves the boy and Shekhawat comes, now vulnerable without his talisman, returns home where the ghost of his lover is waiting for him as the film ends.
== Reception ==


==Cast==
=== Critical reception ===
* [[Atul Kulkarni]] as Shekhawat
The movie was panned by critics, with Pallabi Dey Purkayastha of ''[[The Times of India]]'' awarding it one out of five stars, writing, "Had it not been for the e-ticketing portals, the audience would have struggled to successfully identify the genre of this movie – yes, it is that haphazard. From black magic and reincarnation to paranormal elements and eternal love, the director of the movie, Shravan Kumar, seems to have tried it all but nothing really works." She, however, noted that veterans like Divya Dutta and Atul Kulkarni try their best, but look uninterested after a point.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dey Purkayastha |first=Pallabi |title=706 Movie Review |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/706/movie-review/67575795.cms |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref>
* [[Divya Dutta]] as Dr Suman Asthana
* [[Anupam Shyam]] as Baba in Banaras
* Raayo as Rahul Bora
* Yashvit as Neeraj Jaimal


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Latest revision as of 11:16, 2 March 2026


706
Film poster
Directed byShravan Tiwari
Produced bySandip Patel
Written byShravan Tiwari
StarringAtul Kulkarni
Divya Dutta
Mohan Agashe
Music byAmar Mohile
Edited byKumar Tiwari
Distributed byPanorama Studio
Release date
  • 11 January 2019 (2019-01-11)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

706 is a 2019 Hindi supernatural thriller film directed by Shravan Tiwari and produced by Sandip Patel.[1] The film was released on 11 January 2019.[2][3]

Plot[edit | edit source]

In Mumbai, psychiatrist Dr. Suman searches for her missing husband, Dr. Anil Asthana. A young boy admitted to her hospital claims Asthana is dead and reveals the exact location of his body. Deputy Commissioner Shekhawat investigates the case and suspects supernatural involvement connected to his own past crime and a protective talisman given by a spiritual master.

As the investigation progresses, the boy appears to be possessed by the spirit of Suman’s former patient who died by suicide. The spirit seeks revenge against both Suman and Shekhawat for their past actions. Realizing the only way to end the threat, Suman accepts responsibility for her crimes and sacrifices her own life to free the boy from possession. The spirit departs, leaving Shekhawat unprotected as he returns home to face the consequences of his past.[4][5]

Cast[edit | edit source]

  • Mohan Agashe as Dr Anil Asthana
  • Divya Dutta as Dr Suman Asthana
  • Atul Kulkarni as D.C.P. Abhay Shekhawat
  • Anupam Shyam as Baba in Banaras
  • Raayo S. Bakhirta as Rahul Bora
  • Yashvit Sancheti as Neeraj Jaimal
  • Greeva Kansara as Sunita
  • Hetal Rathod as Abhay's wife
  • Nirali Joshi as Dr Suman's receptionist

Release[edit | edit source]

The film 706 was released on 11 January 2019.Prior to its theatrical release, promotional content for the film was published on YouTube on 19 December 2018. The project is associated with producer Sandip Patel and director Shravan kumar.[6][7]

Reception[edit | edit source]

Critical reception[edit | edit source]

The movie was panned by critics, with Pallabi Dey Purkayastha of The Times of India awarding it one out of five stars, writing, "Had it not been for the e-ticketing portals, the audience would have struggled to successfully identify the genre of this movie – yes, it is that haphazard. From black magic and reincarnation to paranormal elements and eternal love, the director of the movie, Shravan Kumar, seems to have tried it all but nothing really works." She, however, noted that veterans like Divya Dutta and Atul Kulkarni try their best, but look uninterested after a point.[8]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Shambhavi (8 January 2019). "Shravan Kumar's '706' will now release one week before, on January 11". The Indian Wire. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  2. ↑ Thomas, Johnson (11 January 2019). "706 movie: Review, cast, director". Freepressjournal : Latest Indian news,Live updates. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  3. ↑ Glamsham (11 January 2019). "706 relies heavily on black magic and a strong performance by Atul Kulkarni, rather than snaky and exciting turns". Glamsham. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "Shravan Kumar's '706' will now release one week before, on January 11". The Indian Wire. 8 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "706 movie review: A drab whodunnit". The Indian Express. 11 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "706 - Official Teaser". The Times of India.
  7. ↑ Hungama, Bollywood. "Theatrical Trailer (706) | Video Trailer - Bollywood Hungama".
  8. ↑ Dey Purkayastha, Pallabi. "706 Movie Review". The Times of India.

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