The Pickup Artist is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language thriller film, directed by Rohit Arora. The film stars Dev Chauhan, Vijay Kumar Dogra, Pankaj Uniyal and Anahita Bhooshan as lead characters. The music of the film is done by Bonnie Chakraborty and co-produced by Rohit Arora and Pankaj Uniyal, under the Banner of Roar Picture Company.
The film premiered at the 2019 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and was released in theatres on 16 October, 2020.
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Plot
The film revolves around the perception of a Psycho Killer. It is based on the sequence of a crime that occurs in the metro city of Delhi. A girl goes missing and many incidents are inter-linked with each other. The case is then handed over to a maniac policeman, named Tiger Tiwari (Dev Chauhan). Its story revolves around a matter of missing girls in Delhi and a passionate policeman.
Cast
Siddharth Bhardwaj as Siddharth Bharadwaj
Anahita Bhooshan as Chahat
Aanchal Chauhan as Mukti
Dev Chauhan as Tiger Tiwari
Gandharv Dewan as Shyam
Vijay Kumar Dogra as Sharmaji
Dhruv Khurana as Sid
Jasneet Kooner as Elena
Vaibhav Kumar as Kanhaiya
Saurabh Madaan
Lokesh Mittal as Lalaram
Samapti Patra as Aastha
Smriti Sahni as Sapna
Vivek Sinha as Crazy Baba
Akanksha Tyagi
Saasha Aery
Pankaj Uniyal as Pankaj
Marketing and release
The Pickup Artist was released in theatres on 16 October, 2020. It is one of the first films to release in Indian cinemas, as theatres reopened after seven months of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The film was released on the OTT platform MX Player on 28 January, 2021.
Reception
The Times of India mentions a 4.4 out of 5 ratings.
Awards and recognition
The film was selected to be a part of WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, the world's oldest independent film festival, in March 2019. The Pickup Artist won two Gold Remi Awards at the 2019 WorldFest-Houston.
In February 2019, the film was selected to be a part of the East x Northeast International Film Festival in New York. It was nominated for Best Feature Film at the East X Northeast. It was the first Indian film to be selected in the Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil.