India, Dec. 19 -- It's taken only five years for the makers of the acclaimed thriller Raat Akeli Hai to come up with a sequel, now with the added tagline 'The Bansal Murders'. This establishes two things immediately: one, the team was in no hurry for the sake of eyeballs. Two, it gave them ample time to work on a genuinely interesting thriller.

Honey Trehan dons the director's hat again to tell the story of the affluent Bansal family. Much like a murder of crows (that's what you call a group of these intelligent birds) found dead by the family, they themselves meet the same fate. All were killed overnight, with their throats slit. And fingers are pointed at multiple people- a drug addict son, a mysterious godwoman (Deepti Naval) and an o...