Overview

• Stolen premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 and went on to win awards for direction, cinematography, and acting at the Beijing International Film Festival and Japan’s Skip City D-Cinema Festival.
• Prime Video began streaming Stolen on June 4, expanding the reach of Karan Tejpal’s debut thriller beyond the festival circuit.
• Inspired by a 2018 Assam incident, the plot follows two brothers who become targets of mob justice after a baby goes missing at a rural railway station.
• Reviewers have highlighted Tejpal’s taut screenplay and Isshaan Ghosh’s immersive cinematography for intensifying the film’s moral urgency.
• Lead actors Abhishek Banerjee, Shubham Vardhan, and Mia Maelzer have been praised for their nuanced performances that anchor the film’s exploration of social inequality and misinformation.