IMAGE: Mrunal Thakur and Adivi Sesh on the Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha launch occasion in Mumbai, December 18, 2025. {Photograph}: Hemantkumar Shivsharan/Rediff

Mrunal Thakur groups up with Telugu star Adivi Sesh for the romantic motion drama Dacoit.

Conceived as a bilingual, the movie has been shot concurrently in Telugu and Hindi.

The Hindi model carries the prolonged title Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha, inserting it alongside movies like Gadar: Ek Prem Katha and Bathroom: Ek Prem Katha, with the suffix underscoring its romance-driven narrative.

“Dacoit may be very totally different movie. That is my first movie which I’ve shot in Hindi and Telugu,” Mrunal stated on the Hindi launch occasion in Mumbai.

“I do not assume after Love Sonia I obtained to faucet into varied shades of a personality. That is that movie, and it was a unbelievable expertise for me.”

Within the movie, Adivi Sesh essays the function of a thief named Hari who falls for Mrunal Thakur’s character. Her journey traces a placing transformation from a lovable younger girl to a gritty, revenge-driven pressure.

The teaser additionally affords a glimpse right into a gritty world steeped in crime, vengeance, and uncooked emotion.

 

IMAGE: Mrunal Thakur and Adivi Sesh arrive for the Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha launch occasion. {Photograph}: Hemantkumar Shivsharan/Rediff

On the occasion, the lead pair made a dramatic entry on stage, sporting black scarves partially protecting their faces, mirroring the extreme persona of their characters from the movie.

Mrunal launched her co-star and clarified that “Sesh” is his first title, despite the fact that many assume “Adivi” to be one.

They have been joined by Anurag Kashyap, who takes a break from the director’s chair to essay a menacing antagonist, sizzling on the path of Adivi Sesh and Mrunal Thakur’s characters within the movie.

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IMAGE: Anurag Kashyap, Mrunal Thakur and Adivi Sesh on the Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha launch occasion. {Photograph}: Hemantkumar Shivsharan/Rediff

Cinematographer Shaneil Deo, who shot Sesh’s Telugu hits Goodachari and Kshanam, makes his directorial debut with Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha.

Describing the movie as a “dard bhari love story”, Shaneil hailed Sesh because the “hearth” and Mrunal because the “soul” that drive the narrative.

Sesh shared that his friendship with Shaneil goes again a few years, having grown up in San Francisco collectively earlier than discovering their means into the Telugu movie trade.

“He does not converse Telugu and I do not converse Hindi very nicely, but right here we’re,” Sesh stated with amusing, playfully highlighting the movie’s bilingual nature.

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IMAGE: Mrunal Thakur and Adivi Sesh on the Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha launch occasion. {Photograph}: Hemantkumar Shivsharan/Rediff

Anurag stated he had a blast engaged on Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha and praised each Shaneil and Sesh for “pulling it off” with conviction.

Addressing whether or not he was disheartened by Nishaanchi‘s field workplace efficiency, which led to its sequel choosing a direct-to-OTT launch, the director-turned-actor quipped that he is used to it.

“I’m used to it (laughs). I in all probability anticipated just a little bit extra. I realised it on the second day. As a result of it was one movie, we determined to place each components collectively on OTT. It was a movie produced by Amazon, so I’m okay,” Anurag stated.

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IMAGE: Shaniel Deo, Mrunal Thakur, Adivi Sesh, Anurag Kashyap on the Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha launch occasion. {Photograph}: Hemantkumar Shivsharan/Rediff

Sesh additionally addressed the upcoming field workplace conflict, as Dacoit gears up for launch alongside Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar 2 and Yash’s actioner Poisonous on March 19.

“In 2022, Main got here alongside Kamal Haasan sir’s Vikram and Yash Raj Movies’ Samrat Prithviraj. I confronted the identical query throughout that point, and my reply stays the identical,” Sesh stated.

“There could be many huge fish within the sea, however we’re the goldfish.”